Backstabbing

I see your point, the more I type about this, the more I see that my original idea was incorrect. I just wonder why my other allies never said anything about it after losing a ton of units. They just build more and keep on attacking.

Also, the guy kept killing his own ghosts with the nukes as well as our units.

 

ghosts are cheap

besides if hes nuking his allies i don't think he was worrying about the cost

 

that'd be awesome if there was a backstabbing game mode, that was made by blizzard. Pretty much phantom or something like that where there is a hidden backstabber with benefits. Or you know, u should just make it an option, becuase i think backstabbing can be fun. I also like the idea of ur allies being enemies and whatnot .

 

if it was a game mode it wouldn't really be backstabbing cause you would be expecting it

 

Yeah, backstabbing is only backstabbing if the other person doesn't know about it.

However, they could add a mode where alliances are locked, but that would give terran's too much power in that case since he nuke doesn't need a target to launch, and if you launce it at your allies, they can't do anything about it.

 

aside from killing your ghost if they can find him or the flashing red dot quick enough

 

Since they are allies, they would spot the ghost pretty fast.

 

If you want to end backstabbing for good, have a setting that disables all friendly fire, even nukes. It really wouldn't be that hard to do.

 

But how would you be able to nuke an area if there is a large battle and your allies are involved. You wouldn't be able to nuke your enemies because your allies are too close.

 

You would, just the nuke wouldn't hurt your allies. You own units, maybe, but not your allies.

 

hmm...that sounds too strange and illogical. Something as big as a nuke and your allies would be immune to it? I'm ok with no nuclear fallout from it, but ot having your allies hurt from it sounds too op for my taste.

 

given how often I've seen the nuke used (which is to say twice, for fun), I don't think it would impact gameplay that much.

 

But if the nuke wouldn't hurt your allies, then you could all play Terran, and send ghosts to each others bases. Then should the base be attacked, the allies could nuke your base, effectively destroying your opponents, but doing absolutely nothing to you. I think that would be WAY too OP, and also very stupid and unrealistic.

 

If people want to waste time and resources and building a ghost and a nuke to defend other player’s bases, then they should. They'll probably be slaughtered in any game that isn't a fastest money map by the other team, which was smart enough to build an army as opposed to wasting time and resources on getting one nuke in an all or nothing defensive strategy, but it would be their choice.

 

A nuke doesn't cost that much money. Just build a Ghost, a nuclear silo, arm it, place the Ghost in your allies base and there you go, you have the ultimate defense. You don't even have to research any upgrades for the Ghost, since it's protected within your allies base. You must also think of the realism and fun factors, since I wouldn't find it very funny if you could just include a few Ghosts in your allies army, and then nuke your allies and your enemies melee units, still only dealing damage to the latter.

 

yes, a nuke that doesn't hurt your allies is op. The nuke is for taking out strategic targets, not for ultimate defence style play. There just isn't any real way they could win if the nuke just kills their army and not the other person's army as well. Thier army size wouldn't matter since the nuke would kill them all instantly.

 

I think they should do something about being Backstabbed. I mean, it doesn't really make sense to leave an option to betray your teammate, especially in ranked games. if it's something unranked, then fine leave the option in, but for a something that has meaning, make it so that the teams need to stick together.

 

I normally don't have a problem with backstabbing since I'm usually prepared for it and I've done it a few times. But yeah, they should have locked teams in ladder and other ranked games so people don't cheat their way up.

 

i always do it

 

Well, you're pretty mean