Mexes, mass storage and fabricators

[NodCommander]

Hello!

A short question. On some games that drags out for a longer period of time, when mass fabs becomes a viable option I see people building mass fabricators around the mass storage, which surrounds a single mass extractor. Why do people do this? The mass fabricator still only gives 1 mass.

[Apofenas]

No, mass fabs get same bonus from storages. You just don't see it. It's like 1.1-1.5 mass in eco hud which shows as 1 mass in normal.

SCUs are probably a better choice for late game eco. But fabs are handy to utilize power overflow and get adjacency(to quantum gates )

[NodCommander]

No, mass fabs get same bonus from storages. You just don't see it. It's like 1.1-1.5 mass in eco hud which shows as 1 mass in normal.

SCUs are probably a better choice for late game eco. But fabs are handy to utilize power overflow and get adjacency(to quantum gates )

Aah, I see. Yes, I figured it had to be something like this. Good, thanks!

[Reaper Zwei]

putting 4 t2 mass fabs around a surrounded mex gives an income boost of 5 mass instead of 4 mass that four of them alone would normally produce. I see people do this a lot on gap.