NEW players read me

I didn't know half of this stuff :(

People dont know what defenders are. FYI, they are called Picket to anyone wondering.

quote: * Don't try anything fancy until you got the basics down.

I disagree very strongly with this.
Let people have fun and they'll stay and get better naturally.

Some usefull control interface if you want to make the most out of al your CTRL, Alt, shift and space modifiers.

I strongly endorse the "grasp the basics before trying to be clever" instruction. Innovation is about solving a problem not just randomly throwing stuff out. If you grasp the basics, you have a handle on what the problem looks like and can start to rule out ideas that are simply stupid even before beginning.

Also I wondered how I occasionally caused my game to fixed and zoomed out. I knew it must have been some sort of shortcut pressed accidentally, but never knew what one until today.

While that is a fair point, its worth noting that a new player may not necessarily understand what is a gimmick/super weapon/late game unit and what is standard play.

>Best starting energy source is windgens or solar panels. You should keep at start build energy as musch you have metla incoming othervise you cant use metal. In some maps wind is best method for getting energy. You can see it just secelting con and selcting to build wingen but not placing it. It will show how much is lowest energy income from windgen. If its 0.4 or more then better to build windgen. Solars are inefficient way to get energy but thay can bunker when attacked. Do not rush fusion if you don't know why you are doing that. But you can rush geotermal plant because it costs 500 metal.
>Never build defence cluster in base at start. You build defence building only when needed and that line mostly is at mid on map because defence building in base is waste. Its enough with one lotus near factory. Or picket if you build plane factory or gunship factory bit behind front.
>Energy who isnt used for building or shields ir going to overdrive mex who will produce more mtal. More excess energy - more metal. However more enery is added lesss efficient it becomes.
>Press F4 nd you can see grid. Blue grid means that there is not enough energy to make good mex overdrive. When grid is yellow then there is good amount and when grid ir red/oragne it almost are saturaed.
>Big unit shields recharge cost massive amount energu. Don't build them in base (except if you need cover valuable buildings) or in frontline because recharge is slow and it will be waste.
>Do not spam gunships until you learned how gunships works. At least practice them against bots. There is no need for 3 gunship factory in team with 8 players. Its enough with one gunship factory.
>Do not morph your coms sitting in base. There is no use for 7000 worth morphed metal builder com who is just sitting in base and 'rapairing things'. Also there is no point of frontline commander with big invest and no use. Ypu have to learn about commander types and their abilities because each commander have its own options.
>Don't cluster specter or lances. They will die in friendly fire because they will blok each other weapons.
>I recomend that you always set spectre or lance fire stats to manually attack. They have long reload time and you only waste shoots. Pilot them manually and choose target.
>Don't build silo to kill enemy factory or some units. And don't buiild it in base. Missili silo rush works only on small maps.
>Do not play planes if you don't know how. Always build at least two swifts to scout and then you can decide what to do - spam fighter or spam bombers. If you want to play plane factory you need learn about unit in it and what it do.
>Never forget build one radar at front.