Chicken faction

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better chicken economy: chicken roosts/nests can only be built on metal spots, and the metal amount determines the buildspeed of the nest/roost.
chicken tubes provides energy.
(?)drones consumes m so while drones are morphing, nests/roosts build a bit slower.(?) im not sure about the last thing about the drones but the first 2 suggestions are balanced, i think

There used to be a chicken faction. It was terribly unbalanced and wasn't good for the game. The time to properly break the game up into factions would've been back when the game was being consolidated into 1 faction - go to 1 faction or many factions, but not leaving it at 2 mirror-factions.

At this point the factories effectively are factions.

Think of most games with factions. You start with a factory with 3-4 units, you get a second or third each with 3-4, for a total of 9-12.

Each of our factories STARTS you with 9-12 units, and you can add in more by mixing in new factories over the course of the game, combining 2 or more 'factions' together.

I know of no games with as broad a starting unit lineup as we have. The only thing I could think to make this better is to broaden out the lineups of each factory so you don't feel that you absolutely 'must' change factory against an enemy tactic (say, getting anti-heavy from spider or jumpers vs a tank factory to make countering go from incredibly challenging to trivial).

I think the factories are more sub-factions than actual factions. When you start a game, the map has more influence on your factory choice than your play-style. I am not saying that play-style has no influence on factory choice. I am saying that factories are no replacement for a disgusting organic race.