ECONOMY (vent)

I dislike to spend MOST of my time building up the economy, as a rover player!
I want to rush scorchers, ravagers into the enemy base.
Instead, I saw that our economy was struggling, and it was the fastest way for me to build it up!
But then, I realized that I was the only one building economy, our economy did not free me up space to build up forces, artillery was pushing us back, I kept on building special units, but I knew that without eco, there would be way too little assault units!
T_T

factorio?

It's a balancing act. On other games I find myself out in front the unwilling star in a 4-way BDSM horror show while the rest of my team are spamming solars, rushing fusions, building a ramp with newtons and morphing comm but making 0 units. If only I could hold out against 3 players for a mere 10 minutes, we would be in a great position.

Truth is a mix of offense and eco is typically optimal. Cap the mexes near you and queue up solar chains to the next metal cluster while you micro stuff at the front. When repairing or resting from offense, chain some more mexes together with E. A surprisingly good eco can be had from just a fully gridded economy without extra E buildings. By the time front is stable you should be looking at helping out a team singu with a con.

That to me is ideal. Better players may disagree :)

talas There's actually a mod like what you're describing, though I have no idea if it's up to date. It's called arena mod, and it auto builds defences and eco around map points you captured with your combat units. One unfortunate thing about this mod is that for some reason it adds a certain level of RNG to unit construction, with you effectively constructing a custom factory unit set out of a randomly shuffled deck of cards.

Maybe an "autoeco" state might be nice.

Off: No action.
Auto Expand (Naked): Build a mex, move on.
Auto Expand (Defended): Build a mex and a LLT nearby.
Auto Power Balance: Maintain power-to-base income ratio by building solars nearby.

Just play 1v1 and you will have no time to build up your economy.

Okay, z

I think a mixed human-AI team game has a lot of potential, maybe there should be a permanent one of those running? The AIs would need some ELO score to balance things a bit. I'd play such a game sometimes, depending on player count.