Firewall wrote:
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I understand Col Sheppards comments. If you have damaged structures, they are still 100% effective. So repairing them means sinking resources into them, which you don't have to. However, if we are talking about combat units, which will be thrown back into combat. It does make sense to repair them. If that repair will make the difference between it surviving or not. Which is only important if having that unit alive is tactically significant, or if that unit has veterancy (in which case, you don't really need to repair it do you
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Say for instnce you had a Mantis on 20% HP. You could repair it, throw it straight back into combat, or you could reclaim it. If you repair it, then you have spent 40 mass, which means less mass to build more mantis at the factory. Of you throw it into combat, it may do some damage. But most likely it will become a battlefield wreck, and mass for the taking.
However, if you reclaim it instead you get an 80% return on the original mass cost.That is 40 mass. By proactively reclaiming damaged units instead of being a wreck on a battlefield, you can reclaim it in your home base. The only time repairing would be viable here would be if you had too much eco, and not enough build power to use it, and you desperately need all the units you can get. Eg. Using Air staging facilities, between ASF battles on Seatons Clutch.
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I understand Col Sheppards comments. If you have damaged structures, they are still 100% effective. So repairing them means sinking resources into them, which you don't have to. However, if we are talking about combat units, which will be thrown back into combat. It does make sense to repair them. If that repair will make the difference between it surviving or not. Which is only important if having that unit alive is tactically significant, or if that unit has veterancy (in which case, you don't really need to repair it do you
).Say for instnce you had a Mantis on 20% HP. You could repair it, throw it straight back into combat, or you could reclaim it. If you repair it, then you have spent 40 mass, which means less mass to build more mantis at the factory. Of you throw it into combat, it may do some damage. But most likely it will become a battlefield wreck, and mass for the taking.
However, if you reclaim it instead you get an 80% return on the original mass cost.That is 40 mass. By proactively reclaiming damaged units instead of being a wreck on a battlefield, you can reclaim it in your home base. The only time repairing would be viable here would be if you had too much eco, and not enough build power to use it, and you desperately need all the units you can get. Eg. Using Air staging facilities, between ASF battles on Seatons Clutch.
Given these facts, i would conclude the following:
1) This is the way it is and will be for ever more. Nothing will change.
2) Reclaim is so crazy good that we should all self destruct injured units and build new ones with amazing micro'ing ability (seems to be the current state of things).
3) a. Repairing lacks any use and should be ignored 99% of the time (partly due to the amazing powers of reclaim).
b. Repair is too micro intensive and your attention could be better served elsewhere.
4) One or more of these things can be changed to make things more realistic (I know, its a game with giant robots shooting lasers from their face
) Or even to make it more intuitive (I think i need to repair my unit > I think i need to Crl+K my unit then reclaim it and build another one)Statistics: Posted by rockoe10 — 10 Oct 2013, 10:47
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