Haha, that is exactly my plan.  As soon as I can (this week, hopefully), I'm going to get two friends together and try this exact strategy with precise coordination.  I'm going to try to set it up against another team who can all talk to each other as well, to make it fair.  We'll see what happens.  Whether it owns of fails, I'll post to let people know.  

If it does fail, I want to try something like 1 UB with 2 Reg on Cataract.  Have the beast take universal gadget, and puke/gadget the first DG he sees, followed by two snipes.  If we practiced and got the timing down, I think it could be a powerful opening.

Anyway, for those of you who think coordinated Reg sniping is bad (for whatever reason) do you think the proposed quasi-nerf in the original post is a good fix?

If the other team is all Reg, then simply take Blood of the Fallen and Banded Armour at the start, even if you got hit by 5 snipes in a row you would still be alive.

300 or so times 5 at level 1 = 1500 DMG, you would still have 700 left or so. They got a 30 second time before they can launch another strike.

Assuming they can level high enough to 10 without being pushed back, that is 3500 dmg a strike. You should be able to negate that with higher levels and health objects.

Certainly not as painful as having 5 spits land on you.

First spit dont stack and don't has that kind of range anyway

Second to everyone that say, take blood and banded and you are fine, again no.

They are going to target an enemy dg as soon as he go below 1500, then istakill, and this happen all the time, if is not happening is because the other team play very defensively and as such the regulus team will dominate flag cap, plus they have all range and can destroy your towers line easily.

The solution as said before by someone else is to make the same target immune from snipe for 15sec after the first one

I tend to think the reg's bug skill needs to be given a time limit or limited so that only the player that placed the bug can see the player they put the bug on and not the whole team. That would cut down on team sniping without nerfng the single reg in a mixed team.

Also, I think the snipe should abort if your target moves out of your visible range after starting. Too many times I've been killed by a reg that I know can't see me any more.

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I played a 4v4 where 3 on the other side were playing Reg.  It was also clear that they were coordinating.  We trounced them.  Reg has no staying powering in the early game so it was easy to cap flags.  Second, snipe does more damage from distance, so they had to sit way back from the front line to have much effect.  That meant they were not up killing grunts.

Sure, they got a couple of kills in.  But all you do is load the HP items and by 5 minutes in, the regs are pretty much non-effective.  They were pushing snipe so they couldn't do much else and we just had free reign of the map.  One other trick - pick the 800+ HP favor item.  That makes multiple Regs that much more ineffective early game.  Finally, there is the sphere that makes you immune to everything for 5 seconds.  Pop that when you see them wind up and you take no damage.

hah I deleted my post too late..... i gave up on this argument, cant be bothered to have an internetz argument over a possible one in a million chance game that someone might actually play if the connection server allows them to all get into the lobby

You kind of prove the case to experienced players. The problem is the range and the fact that you can snipe from one end of most maps to the other. Against multiple Regulus you can't take enemy flags, engage enemy creeps, or go anywhere that you're a target once your under full health against multiple Regulus. Against multiple UBs or anyone else all you have to do is run away once you see them coming. That means you can still take flags and mine creeps while your health regen kicks up. Maybe if one demigod shows up you look at his health and see if it would be a good fight or if you need to run. But you don't need to run all the way back to the crystal and waste time not getting XP, flags, and gold.

But against multiple Regulus the threat of multiple snipes mean that you MUST run back to the crystal once youre injured. You can't engage non-demigod targets because you're susceptable to snipes and death. Even if you play smart and buy potions your spending money on something that you don't need to against other DGs. 1000 gold on a few healing potions is a decent item that you can't buy. And if you don't buy multiple potions then you just get one shot before you're off runninig for the crystal again, wasting time and losing more XP and gold. Then the Regulus team controls the flags, farms creeps, outlevels you and outspends you.

This looks like a problem when your a rookie that you get over when you're more experienced. Then you realize when you're an expert that there's a whole different problem in the long run. It's not the dieing that's the issue, is the whole metagame domination. This is unique to regulus and it's a legitimate concern.

you have pinpointed the problem, hopefully GPG will take it seriously and find a solution before a competitive enviroment come to play

Sounds good, except I think the metagame domination goes to the other team, and not to the regulus players. I don't think they can one shot, only cull weak players, and I don't think an occasional kill (which they will get more of if they are good, definately) and the occasional making someone run back to base/use a healing potion are going to give them the stopping power against a team that is built to counter them.

And, all things being equal, you have to assume that a highly organized regulus team has highly organized opponents. Otherwise the team that played regulus would win regardless, and the issue is not with regulus, but with better players picking on weaker.

But again, I haven't faced a truly good version of this, and the version I did face was 4v4

I played a 4v4 with 3 Regs on my team. The other side quit.

The problem is that this strat is only overpowered to new players and bad players. The only fair way to nerf the skill would be to put an immunity timer on it of 5 secs or so.

The other side all went swift anklet just about, no HP boosts and spent their time losing health. If they were an organised side I don't think we would have won at all.

Even after seeing it in action, I am not convinced it is OP, it is just something that is very annoying for players who cannot think how to counter it.

I would still like to see the ability to set the option in a game that only one demigod type can be had per team. Playing any kind of double act is annoying, including multiple Regs.

I'd like to see an option for one god only per side. That's a lot cooler IMO. But I'd just reduce the range on Snipe to about half what it is today. I don't consider the damage the problem. It's the fact that you can have multiple Regulus controlling multiple lanes with autoattacks and mines while all of them can still support each other with Snipe from all over the map.

You know what else is bad about an all Regulus team? I know snipe is coming, so I'm not going to let my health drop. I'm going to break off of combat early, take less chances, and just creep. When I do get killed by snipe it's because I forget there is a Regulus in the game.

While we're at it, lets put in an stun immunity so that you can't be stunned more than once in  15 seconds!

Oh oh oh! Lets make it so that there can only be x amount of Rook towers on the field at one time. This one time I faught 3 Rooks, and so I was like ok! I'm just going to grab this flag in the lane on the other side of the map becuase there was no one there right.. OMG I got ganked by 36 towers!! That wasn't fair! Rook wasn't even on my screen!

That ice rainy spell that TB does needs to be nerfed as well! Like there was 3 level 1 TBs that all used it at the same time, and they  killed my whole team! I was like omgwtf! That's so overpowered! How come if they all use a l evel 1 spell at the same time they can kill my whole team without use even touching them!

Ugh! Don't even get my started on the 3 QoT team. They all had that green bubble thingy up, and were like "ha ha ha you level one scrubs! you can't kill us!" We just sat there beating on them for ten minutes! I finally left the game due to being bored to death. I figured we were going to lose any way... So I might as well quit and join another game.