by everywhere116 » 25 Feb 2017, 04:49
I noticed that sometime I wasn't getting the mass back from the wrecks of mexes when I was reclaiming them. Turns out when a nomads engineer builds a nomads mex on top of a nomads mex wreck of a higher tier, instead of reclaiming the mass from the wreck, the wreck just disappears and the engineer begins building the extractor. You don't get the mass back either.
This can be worked around in game by manually reclaiming the wreck and then ordering the engineer to build the mex, but this isn't obvious and no other faction does this.
I made a comprehensive experiment detailing it. The action begins at around 5 minutes.
EDIT: Since apparently you can't attach files in this forum, the replay number is 5853881, but apparently the replay is bugged in the vault, but my local copy works, so if you want I can send it to you in a pm.