So for my Cat and mouse map (located HERE) I'm trying to come up with side effects of drinking the Speed Serum. Basically each mouse will get 1 good and 1 bad side effect (plus speed) if they drink the serum which for now you don't have to.
Right now my ideas are these:

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GOOD EFFECTS

• More Drones
  
• Health
  
• Increased Vision
  
• Cheaper Units
  
• Slow the cat when near. (or maybe have like tarpits you can set up or something)
  
• Teleportation
  

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BAD EFFECTS

• Clumsy (pinged for the cat every x seconds)
  
• Slow
  
• More expensive units
  
• slower dropship
  
• random run
  

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I'm looking to do 15 good and bad ones +1 where the serum has no effect so 3 random switches.

I think you should have more good than bad side effects or nobody will risk it. A slow or random run can easily mean instant death.

Cheaper / More expensive units will be hard to trigger unless that only counts for the units you buy by trigger.

Health should probably be 1 point of shield with 255 armor (which is always set to 0 when the item is inactive).

That being said you only need 3 more good effects:
- hallucinations
- fake ping for the cat
- invisibility

Well the idea was that they would get both a good and a bad side effect. So they might get cheaper units but they get pinged as well. Do you think they should just get either a good or a bad?
As for the slower/random move I was thinking that there should be a chance for a really bad side effect and a chance for a really awesome side effect (1/16) for both.

That was the plan to do just the trigger buys.


I'm not quite sure how this works, maybe a little elaboration?


I like all 3 of those but I wonder if a fake ping would make a real ping not that bad of a thing.
Thanks for your suggestions!