Discussion about tank traps/useless objects

[3drts]

They are a wall that bunkers and units can fire through....
They are cheaper which might actually matter on low oil maps
Thats about it.

Keep 'em

[Roux Le Corps]

~builds walls, builds tank traps in gaps~ no tank, cyborgs only... bad, BAD flame tank!

[Verin]

They avoid path finding, I think. So they get stuck if you click somewhere and the traps are in your tanks generated path.

[JDW]

They avoid path finding, I think. So they get stuck if you click somewhere and the traps are in your tanks generated path.

Currently yes Actually, they do make their way around tank traps but not very smoothly, but if Zarel's idea were ever to be implemented, the problem would be fixed,

One idea would be to make tank traps like gates (sink into the ground when friendly units are nearby). Still wouldn't make them very useful, but at least they'd be fun to use, and an interesting stopgap before "real" gates later on in the tech tree.

[Verin]

They avoid path finding, I think. So they get stuck if you click somewhere and the traps are in your tanks generated path.

Currently yes, but if Zarel's idea were ever to be implemented, the problem would be fixed,

One idea would be to make tank traps like gates (sink into the ground when friendly units are nearby). Still wouldn't make them very useful, but at least they'd be fun to use, and an interesting stopgap before "real" gates later on in the tech tree.

No that makes them useful!

[Collective Leader]

I use them as a diversion. The enemy instinctively targets them because they are the first thing that comes to their sight, and thus completely ignores the turrets hacking away at them. They are actually very useful in slowing enemy units that I would consider a major threat so that I can eliminate them easily.

[Defacto]

I find them being pretty good on the level where Nexus got his big bad space cannon and starts shoopdawooping you, as a diversion for the lazers...

[JakeGrey]

My trick is to use them to create chicanes at chokepoints, forcing the enemy to either approach my base in single file or waste precious seconds blasting them out of the way. I could use walls for this, but tank traps are faster and cheaper to build and don't catch as much crossfire.