Megalith bp of t2 factory

[Evildrew]

Look at the mega take an inverted dump on the battlefield;)

#Repeal and replace bad stuff in balance patch - 2017

[Myxir]

the bp of this unit does not matter (except for reclaim purposes) if the egg build time is adjusted accordingly - afaik that was the intention of the change

[JaggedAppliance]

http://content.faforever.com/patchnotes ... cellaneous

Washy is correct but the egg build time was not reduced by the full amount required to allow the mega to complete the eggs at the same rate as before. This is because eggs with very low build time would be abusable.

[Evildrew]

My math tells me that BP /4 (180-->45) and buildtime /2 (50%) = 2x longer to build units from it...

[Paradoxon]

Now i am interested what about low egg build time is abusable.
Starting eggs and finishing them with engies? Building panic flak?
I can't think of an obvious problem...

[Myxir]

that is indeed a bad change, but your topic title "Megalith bp of t2 factory" is misleading from the actual problem then

Now i am interested what about low egg build time is abusable.
Starting eggs and finishing them with engies? Building panic flak?
I can't think of an obvious problem...

i could imagine auto assisting hives spamming bricks or something

[IceDreamer]

Hives/T3 Eng/SCU

We're talking complete flash-build of bricks and flak. It's pretty busted TBH :/ 2x rate isn't bad.

I pointed this out to Jagged when I was making the code changelog and he was well aware. I also said that if this went ahead (It did) it would be a good idea to consider a mobile-units-who-can-build-stuff global "Bonus feature" to make using the factory feature a little special, and gave him some ideas. Hopefully we'll see a 'replacement' for the old much faster egg build at some point.

[Wesmania]

I understand that the root problem here is that buildpower and reclaim speed are not separate values. Is there a way to decouple them in the code?

[IceDreamer]

Nope. Seriously though, the game will probably end up better in the long run with longer reclaim times and the mobile factories being "Special" in a way other than their mobility. A true choice and reason to use them.