Just a random thought since the general view on carriers is less than favorable. They are either way too strong and simply overpower everything, or they are utterly useless. In addition, the mothership isn’t all that interesting as you can only use one and encourages Protoss to keep their entire army together.
Don’t get caught up in the numbers.
What if we cut the carrier and combined its interceptors with the mothership?
Obviously, the following would have to happen
-Mothership moves to stargate tech with fleet beacon
-You can make multiple motherships.
-The radius of spells like cloak, recall, and time warp will have to be reduced possibly.
-resource/energy will have to be modified potentially.
-Possibly reduce the size of the mothership.
But
Add in release interceptors.
The mothership could either expend like 50-100 energy to launch interceptors to attack enemies. It would have a cooldown, and the interceptors would only last like 1 minute or so (or until they are all destroyed)
Or keep it auto-cast, but each interceptor costs like 5-10 energy to make.
Things it would possibly solve
-Protoss would have to manage the energy of the mothership between interceptors and its other abilities. So it’s less of a battering ram like the carrier is when you get like 8 of them.
-The mothership is more exposed because of how it cloaks its army. So you might be able to get away with stronger interceptors due to the risks of using the mothership.
-It combines two units that are viewed less than favorable.
-Multiple motherships might encourage smaller Protoss armies. And using its recall to launch strategic attacks on enemy bases. Instead of teching up and keeping the entire army together, maybe smaller portions break off and attack at different locations.
-Gets rid of the “hero” unit idea and the frustration of your 1 mothership always being the first to go in a fight. Now you can have multiple ones.
Anyway. What do you guys thing? Not a complete idea, but just spitballing with something. Would love to hear your thoughts.
You can check out my other posts on ideas for a big balance patch below.
Zerg: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/big-balance-patch-zerg-ideas
Terran: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/big-balance-patch-terran-ideas/
Protoss: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/big-balance-patch-protoss-ideas
