I think we can all agree the ELM (aka SUAV aka Elite UAV aka Spy Balloon) desperately needs a buff. It have all the weakness of both a cruise missile and an UAV, with zero movement. Right now they can be used mostly as an overprice spy cam that kill itself on the first unit it sees.
My suggestion:
1. Slightly increase its health. ELM have too little health for a fixed wings unit, and they have the price tag of a cruise missile.
2. Give the unit minimal range (Increase range value to 1 or 0.5 if that's possible with the code). I'm not sure how this will affects air unit, but if it works the way I think it does, this will allows it to attack without getting its damage lowered by any unit with Fix wing defense stats (Not attacks stats), which is all ground and naval units outside of Artillery.
3. Give it a boost in damage in exchange for a flat increase of 5 gears to deploy for every level.
That or change it to a missile unit, and skip every changes I suggess above.
Any one of this implemented would give the ELM a fighting chance and make it more usable. As it is right now I can say that it is the single worst unit in the game. Not worst Elite unit, the worst unit all around.
My suggestion:
1. Slightly increase its health. ELM have too little health for a fixed wings unit, and they have the price tag of a cruise missile.
2. Give the unit minimal range (Increase range value to 1 or 0.5 if that's possible with the code). I'm not sure how this will affects air unit, but if it works the way I think it does, this will allows it to attack without getting its damage lowered by any unit with Fix wing defense stats (Not attacks stats), which is all ground and naval units outside of Artillery.
3. Give it a boost in damage in exchange for a flat increase of 5 gears to deploy for every level.
That or change it to a missile unit, and skip every changes I suggess above.
Any one of this implemented would give the ELM a fighting chance and make it more usable. As it is right now I can say that it is the single worst unit in the game. Not worst Elite unit, the worst unit all around.