Nikita "SKillous" Gurevich

There are some technical limitations on how ability hover/ability select range indicators work in the SC2 engine, which would make your suggested implementation unwieldy.

can't it only be showed when u have probe selected + selecting to build battery?

Sure, but I would argue that benefits of the information gained from having the nexus always having the range indicator outweigh the negatives of the minor annoyance. I suspect this is something players will eventually adapt to, but willing to reconsider my opinion given time.

Well if it CAN be changed to where it's only shown when building a battery, why would it be needed in any other time? Since the only benefit of the radius is to know when it's in range of a battery, then it's fine to just put it on the probe.

It's not like you're going to be changing the position of your nexus to account for already made batteries. Unless I misread your tweet and that change still falls under the technical issues that you initially mentioned.

I think that's factoring in too much of the meta of high-level play. For instance, newer players could certainly build Nexuses in the middle of the map alongside a forward Shield Battery push.

I also don't think it's inconceivable for players to build Batteries slightly outside the range of the Nexus where they would need a reminder of which ones can be overcharged. Again, you have to consider all skill levels.

Finally, we strive to make all abilities follow the established rules of SC as much as possible, and abilities that have range having range indicators is one of those rules.