more striders, without strider hub

I get your point, but I kind of like it the way it is. I think it's good to have to build a separate factory to build all the monsters (though, most of the other facs have their own beast for good measure (like you said)).

Perhaps a new factory should be built for an entirely new class of units? This is straying off topic a little, but a new factory would add some more diversity/flavor to the game.

IMO: move Shogun, Scylla and Reef to a Capital Shipyard, which is just what happens when you build Strider Hub on water with depth 20+

They ain't striders, they don't stride, they swim

My biggest complaint about the strider hub is that its a bit bland, the least cool-looking factory IMO. The TA krogoth gantry was pretty sweet.

I'd be amused if the battleship became a game-ending floating artillery fortress of death (untransportable by any means other than floating itself).

The nice thing about strider hub is that it is possible to have parallel unit building, such as starting up two different projects, say a Merlin and a Funnelweb, and get them both done at the same time.
Moving striders back to factories not only removes this, but it lowers the amount of striders available for someone to build at any one time.

Instead of one 800metal strider hub starting a whole bunch of strider projects, now, in order to build other types of strider, e.g from Ultimatum to Merlin, you'd have to build the factory that makes Merlin first and then start making the other strider.

It just seems like it will complicate things and unnecessarily increase the cost of making another strider.
My stance on this topic.

quote: I feel lumping all striders to their own factory (strider hub) is an exception to the flat tech tree concept

In my view 'concepts' like the flat tech tree should be employed for as long as they are good for the game, and modified or ignored in situations where they are not. I don't really see anything wrong with how the Strider Hub plays at the moment to justify a change.

Could we have strider plate please?
It's quite inconvenient pinging teammates in the middle of the battle begging for some strider frame...

Strider fac plates sounds like a good idea, because begging for frames is sometimes annoying, altough there would be that problem with the "mother" strider fac. If you build a plate a your main factory gets destroyed, you are screwed, plate production is halted. Since strider fac builds frames, there is no way to stop work on an already built plate.

Lol what if caretaker gets striderhub units of it's close enough to an active striderhub

Several issues that were mentioned with this:

No vehicle striders:
I agree this should be addressed. I think there should be more striders, just that they should not become the focus on the game.

Sniping almost finished nano frames by destroying factory:
Frustrating as it is, I think this is actually a good thing. A key weakness on striders is the long build time. Kill them before they are made. Also if you are building a strider in an area where you are not defending, you deserve to have it sniped. I also think Paladin should be at the high end of striders cost. Detriment is never going to be worth it as super weapon are just a little more.

Strider hub allows to be build in parallel:
There are build plates that not only allow this, but they are cheaper then a nano tower and provide the same build power.

Build menu is pretty cramped:
This is mainly an issue in ships. I think ships should be separated into different factories. We have multiple factories for land, and we only have 1 factory dedicated to the sea. 2 that are land/sea.


Striders at the factories would allow:
Striders to be build earlier in the game, which would mean that they would be countered earlier.

Since strider hub does not have a build plate, build plates would give access to team members striders, though this is not required as all factories should have access to at least 1 strider.