Heroes should retain XP through rebuying

[Cowmunist Leader Moo Zedong]

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[patio.gurnisson]

i'm rebuying Ezili, Etienne, Psi time to time in order to keep them at a low level. If this (retain XP) will be switchable - then ok to me, otherwise not ok.

[Ninja Zyborg]

no. why should I get a single chinook ability usage for only $150 on specific towers? seems broken.

[Cowmunist Leader Moo Zedong]

Originally posted by Ninja Zyborg:

no. why should I get a single chinook ability usage for only $150 on specific towers? seems broken.

Because those "specific towers" also happen to be the only "specific towers" that are able to level themselves up and are "specifically" limited to 1 tower only. If you're so hung up on the homogenization of towers then sure let's be able to place down multiple clones of our hero and have every other tower in the game level up on its own.

Here's a counterpoint for a more serious person: why should you have to buy a chinook for one specific tower? Perhaps even for one specific use case of that one specific tower? Why is the alternative of spending 100k on a "chinook ability usage" a reasonable thing to have happen for any tower?

Besides that, why the outright refusal? Not like "well maybe only once per map" or "maybe if there was an x round cooldown on it" just "no". At least patio humors me.

[AN]

No

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by Milordog1:

Originally posted by Ninja Zyborg:

no. why should I get a single chinook ability usage for only $150 on specific towers? seems broken.

Because those "specific towers" also happen to be the only "specific towers" that are able to level themselves up and are "specifically" limited to 1 tower only. If you're so hung up on the homogenization of towers then sure let's be able to place down multiple clones of our hero and have every other tower in the game level up on its own.

Here's a counterpoint for a more serious person: why should you have to buy a chinook for one specific tower? Perhaps even for one specific use case of that one specific tower? Why is the alternative of spending 100k on a "chinook ability usage" a reasonable thing to have happen for any tower?

Besides that, why the outright refusal? Not like "well maybe only once per map" or "maybe if there was an x round cooldown on it" just "no". At least patio humors me.

that's one way to say "I don't understand game balance"

heroes are balanced around not selling them. their whole thing is that they level up the longer they remain on the map. Why would you think that being able to sell them would be even remotely balanced?

Your counterpoint doesn't even work. Why should an ability get invalidated like that? the chinook is specifically made to move towers. and wdym "spending 100k on a chinook ability usage"? the alternative is... buying chinook. Not 100k.