The Protoss are a masochistic race

I've played the Protoss in SC1 and Brood War, and I always came up with a conclusion that they are a masochistic race -

They never heal or repair themselves- only their shield recharge. their armies most of the time look like a group of wounded- sometimes on the brink of death- warriors, and a seriously damaged vehicles and air force(Dragoon, reavers, scouts etc). even their buildings cannot be repaired- Their bases, in serious missions, look like burning, nearly destroyed bunch of buildings.

What normal, sane race doesnt repair and heal itself? and I thought the Protoss are the most powerfull and advanced race in the SC world...

Both the Zerg and the Terrans can bring their forces to FULL health, if by repairs/heal or by regeneration.

I think that in SC2, the protoss should have a way to heal and repair themselves, even if it will cost them a lot of resources- it's just sane.

 

Structure repair for protoss i support - could be either some sort of nano field structure that generates a nano field just like the pylon psy field but that regenerates structures arround it (could also be an adv. upg. for the pylon - that would give the pylons even more importance) as for unit regeneration - well most of theyr unit's are either mechanical ones or cybernetic enhanced ones (zealot , DT), plus their xtremply powerfull , so healing them would in a way OP the protoss. Maybe could be with same mechanisc - within psy fields they regenerate.

 

im sorry but what does masochistic race mean?

 

Masochistic - someone who enjoyes pain applied to itself, who finds it exciting when he gets hit or when he is touched by different forms of pain.

 

Yes I saw something like that to...wonder why markavam4 said that protoss are masochistic , their not terriost's.

 

zealots love pain lol

 

Well, I can explain the buildings. The buildings are factory produced, the Probes just warp them. They have no repair "knowedge".

 

lol I'm sorry coreyb, I'm not trying to pick on you, but that has to be the funniest quote of the entire day (even though it's only 5:52am).

But on topic: I never noticed that before, well... I have. I noticed that Zerg can regenerate health over time and Terran can repair buildings and structures as well as heal units with a Medic and that Protoss only had the crappy Shield Regenerators. I didn't really stop and think about how the Protoss are much more advanced (Technologically anyways) than both of the other races. Go figure?

 

Lol I take that as a good thing? , yeah there all pritty balenced I think.

 

wonder why markavam4 said that protoss are masochistic , their not terriost's. - this is really funny. Masochistic in the sense that although they got their health bar low they don't do anything about it. ok so the buildings are warpe in - why not make the psy field of the pylons repiar them and also heal units - that would put a greater sense to the whole psy unity and that kind of thing...plus nano tech is something they must have developed so buildings could have an internal nano repair device. Again there are many ways to make the protoss repair their damaged structures/units and wouldn't effect the gameplay to much or without the posibility of balancing.

 

they've evolved beyond nano repair, its called a self regenerating sheild

 

the reason they don't have repair is to make them different from the terrans in therms of game play, so that the races are more unique

 

I kinda thought that the reason they didn't have repair was to evoke the impression of a race in decline - a power that's already seen better days and is being pushed to defeat and extinction.

 

ye, the glory days of the protoss were centuries ago lol

 

i really dont see the point of this thread

 

The protoss can't repair buildings and heal their normal hp bar because that's one of their disadvantages which make the game more balanced. And the races more unique. At least, that's looking from the gameplay perspective.

Btw, anubis, your idea for the upgraded pylons is kinda cool

 

protoss is a powerful in terms of powerful units that last longer than any of the two races and if theres a healing, that would be cheap and does not differ from any other two races

 

The point is to point out the fact that though the protoss are one of the most advanced species in the universe of SC they have no way to repair the damage that they recive. Call it nano repair, call it internal self regenerating tech (shields are shields hp are hp bouth need to regenerate because a protoss base looks like shit after an attack ) call it psy regeneration call it in any way or make it in any way possible but for a specie so evolved it's kinda idiotic not to have a way to repair it's broken things.

 

Well I personally think this is a good topic and needed to be brought up.

The Protoss could be considered masochistic but that would be exactly the oposite of that. The Protoss actually IGNORE pain the do not imbrace it, they don't have to even gnor it for they do not really feel it when they enter battle. They also endure excrushiating pain in their early training and they can practiacally be moving tanks that take damage until they are dead. They just don't feel it anymore after their training. It is that simple.

 

Being impervious to pain has its weaknesses- if you cant feel pain then you wont know that you have been hit, in certain circumstances- like being attacked by surprise/from behind/ by a cloaked enemy. I dont think the Protoss will allow this to happen.

How can a Protoss building be functional after taking damage and stand burning all the time? its doesnt make sense. same thing for all their other non-infantry units.