by sasin » 10 Jul 2014, 16:59
I don't want to add too many graphs etc. and the reclaim alone would be great, but another related graph that I'd love would be "mass out-units". In other words, a graph like mass out but not including mass spend on mass extractors, ras, pgens, etc. only looking at the mass value of the units you put on the field. On some level this would incorporate reclaim and adjacency (both of those help you put more units on the field), but obviously, those would be interesting in their own right.
Anyways, I think this graph would do a great job of quantifying the sum total of how good your economy etc. was. It'd be a very, very interesting graph. The regular mass out graph doesn't take into account reclaim, overbuilding of power, and mass extractors that are destroyed and rebuilt. Also, the current mass out graph encourages newer players to upgrade all their mass extractors to t3 all the time, because then their graph goes higher and they think their eco is "better."