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    What do you think about this mass-farming blueprint?

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      A Former User @Femboy
      last edited by

      @javi Actually, the shield and pgens survive, and you get half of the fabs' wrecks to rebuild on top.
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        A Former User @waffelzNoob
        last edited by

        @waffelznoob This blueprint means you don't have enough space to spread unshielded fabs.

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        • waffelzNoobW Offline
          waffelzNoob
          last edited by

          then placing one or two of these templates should be fine. if your opponent gets t3 arty or novaxes its gonna be too hard to protect all of them

          frick snoops!

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            Cyborg16
            last edited by Cyborg16

            Ignoring energy, that's 36.2k mass to generate 104 mass which takes 348s (just short of 6 mins) to pay back. (In comparison, a ringed T3 mex is 5400 mass which takes 200s to pay for itself, but you wouldn't expect to beat that.)

            If you did the same with T3 fabs (6.5, yeah...) the payback time is 398s but you get about 1500 excess power (maybe more if I remembered adjacencies incorrectly). Still less efficient with a spare T3 pgen thrown in.

            But don't forget that it'll take a while to build, especially with engineers bumping around each other to get out the way all the time.

            Otherwise, this much mass gets you half a T3 arty or a Megalith or Soulripper or 17 strats.

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            • FtXCommandoF Offline
              FtXCommando
              last edited by

              Mass storage ringed t3 mass fabs take 267 seconds to pay off.

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                Deribus Global Moderator @Blade_Walker
                last edited by

                @black_wriggler said in What do you think about this mass-farming blueprint?:

                @Deribus hey where is our weekly thread for favourite templates ?

                Probably never. 95% of people would say PD + walls or ringed mass storage. Templates just aren't useful enough

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                  Blade_Walker @Deribus
                  last edited by

                  @deribus
                  Yes but they don't necessarily have to be good, just ones that players have come up with and like to use

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                  • SpikeyNoobS Offline
                    SpikeyNoob Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Here is my recent idea for a mass fab grid. The goal was to be able to fit as many fabs as i could without them being able to chain react.alt textalt text

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                      Blade_Walker
                      last edited by

                      @SpikeyNoob Sorry but that grid will still chain ! The T2 fabs need to be further apart

                      Try something like this for a single grouping

                      T3T2fb.png

                      You can fit 3 under a non-Aeon T3 shield without them chaining each other :

                      T3T2Fabs.png

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                      • SpikeyNoobS Offline
                        SpikeyNoob Global Moderator @Blade_Walker
                        last edited by

                        @black_wriggler try it your self, only 1 3x3 block will explode at once

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                          Blade_Walker @SpikeyNoob
                          last edited by Blade_Walker

                          @spikeynoob ah you are using the shields to block the low explosion damage from the fabs

                          it would be a shame if you were to power stall in-game though...

                          also this looks to be Cybran-only the other factions shields are much bigger

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                          • CheeseBerryC Offline
                            CheeseBerry
                            last edited by CheeseBerry

                            Why are you making mass fabs if you are scared of them blowing up though?

                            Imo, if you need to preemptively shield your mass fabs, you should have made bois instead

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                            • QuietJoyQ Offline
                              QuietJoy
                              last edited by

                              Cybran shields are a meme unfortunately and I say that as a Cybran main. I'd say cybran mass farms need some hives in there also, as a minimum consideration.

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