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What League needs is Upgrades for turrets !! UPF*KNGRADES HEIMER APPROVED!!

Spoofghoul·2/24/2018, 11:19:11 AM·4 votes·538 views

Heimerdinger FUCKING UPGRADES YO!!

I mean shit started out as a tower defense game after all so it makes sense.

Some of thew pro's

  • Diversity, game becomes less bland since turrets change according to whims of current opposing team
  • Better & stronger turrets, because they got UPGRADE!!
  • Strategy, more options to improve turrets to do all sorts of things allows for interesting new strategic choices
  • More fun, let's be honest i see buff turret threads all the time why not let the players decide in game what buff they want

Some of the downsides

  • Takes a bunch of work to implement
  • More balancing to be done which ties in with first point not sure if balance team is up for the task

SOOO how do we do this?

Well simple, turrets have an inventory right? We buy them items, we might need some turret specific items or perhaps make stats work different for turrets etc so a lot of work

Just need an extra tab in the shop there we select which row of turrets we can do the following choices, totaling 7. Tier 1-3 turrets Top/mid/bot lane turrets Nexus turrets

Select the row of turrets you want to UPGRADE!! Then you simply buy the upgrade

But then what if there is only 1 turret left in the group of turrets you picked, well simple, you either pay 100% or 67% or 33% depending on number of turrets upgraded

Gameplay consequences

As you might have guessed upgrades cost gold, so you have to choose do i buy that sweet B.F. sword for my champ or do i upgrade some turrets.

To prevent super cheese turrets would need a little time to be upgraded displayed by some visual ring which ticks down broken inhib style click on turret to see which upgrade is being done to it by looking into it's inventory

Upgraded turrets are pretty tough to deal with so the reward would increase as well per upgrade done to turret

TLDR We need turret upgrades for more game play diversity, strategy and fun, fairly easy to implement although it will take a ton of work Now i haven't really gone in dept into which upgrades we need or want so ill leave that to all of you guys to come up with

6 Comments

InTheory2/24/2018, 12:30:12 PM2 votes

Cool idea. I'd definately test that in a special gamemode maybe alongside that one where you could upgrade minions. But for experimentation surely a possible way to go.

ShuyinTheX2/24/2018, 2:05:52 PM1 votes

I'd also be fine if we had a Black Market Brawlers deal where we could also upgrade minions. The game would be so much more interesting if we could upgrade our minions and towers.

Bob the Toastr2/24/2018, 5:43:55 PM1 votes

That's a cool idea. And the bonus gold for killing the upgraded towers should be a percentage of what the defending team spent upgrading them (I'm thinking between 20% and 40%. Love the idea though. My only problem is that in solo/duo queue, it may be hard to get one player to sacrifice their items for turret upgrades.