: I've added a few creeps near fountain of power, it's still possible to use it without dealing with creeps first, but it's very inconvenient: you can use little space for free use of it (more space after dealing with creeps), also location of this fountain is far from everything but central base. Fountain of power is placed there to help player who'll choose this dead
end for it's base, getting there with small army, without any other business on the way, will cost too much time.