why doesnt zz'rot voidlings give gold?
like . . . why not? i mean for how much power it has if you made it so the voidlings gave say even 5 gold per voidling would make it fair. or at least stop it from being spammed so damn much
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Because then you could just leave it alone and get an infinite gold income until its timer runs out, which would make no-one want to buy it because it's giving gold to the enemy team. Making the Voidlings worthless for farm incentivizes actually destroying the portal.
you get the gold from any creeps your voidlings kill 
It wouldn't do anything to balance the item at all if it gave 5 gold per creep (or any amount), in the end it'll just generate 185 or 190g (depending on if you get the lucky extra creep spawn) over the 150 seconds it stays up, that is in no way going to dissuade people from buying it and abusing it in the way that is currently being done since they solely care about the ability to mindlessly pressure lanes while granting a fantastic mobility boost passively. All doing that will do is punish the players who build it early for practical uses in lane (ie, not where its abuse cases are even showing up) since it's not difficult to secure the last hit on the creeps it spawns and as such a laning Champion has no particular reason to clear out the gate when they can instead use it as an extra source of income.
Because it would encourage people to kill the voidlings rather than kill the portal.