Fix: GLA Salvage Crate can no longer be removed by scaffolds #1676
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With this change the GLA Salvage Crate can no longer be removed by scaffolds. Crates simply stay intact under the scaffold until they are picked up or time out.
Patched
Rationale
It took until around year 2017 for top players to figure out the obscure exploit of removing visible and invisible Salvage Crate objects by placing Scaffolds over them. In top level matches this is now exploited accordingly. The reason this is accepted by top players is the weakness of China against (scrapped) GLA. A fully scrapped GLA Technical for example can present a major problem in the early stages of a China build.
Since this Project aims to strengthen China and make all faction match-ups more playable, this exploit ideally will no longer be required to achieve fair chances for China vs GLA in the future.
The big advantage is clean game mechanics, and no exploits sold as features to achieve some sort of balancing. The big disadvantage is that this fundamentally changes how top level GLA matches are played, which almost always revolve around Scrap scaffold exploits.
For many Noob, Semi and Pro players this change is inconsequential, because they do not use this obscure exploit to gain the advantage.
This change also makes the mechanics consistent with the inability to delete money crates and any other pickable crate, which was implemented with #443.