Replicate. Whats your use?
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Join Date: 2010-04-11 Member: 71323Awaiting Authorization
Join Date: 2010-04-11 Member: 71323Awaiting Authorization
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+ Marine Bases die faster because they dont have aoe heal structures + powernodes... (powernode down(or infected by DI?) in an outpost = freekill structures for aliens more or less)
Sounds useful for making infantry portals quickly. If the whole marine team dies and there's just one Infantry Portal, replicate is awesome.
Setting up lots of observatories quickly would make good use of it too.
Maybe it can clone Transponder uprade Infantry Portals and Advanced Armories, reducing research times to zero?
It does sound pretty breakable, bypassing building time cost. Maybe it should be toned down (half building time or so).
Easy.
Same with the comm station, you upgrade 1 and then replicate it, so you don't have to wait for an upgrade on this new one. Extractors, the same.
Yeah, the cost is a lot higher but you don't need to research anything, is already done. Two base, on the second you still don't have an armory, then you replicate it and is instantly build, no need to wait for the MAC to finish it, and it has all the upgrades you did on the first one.
A great way to use it is dropping armories behind advancing marines, or spamming sentries, since the cost is bugged...
Easy.
Same with the comm station, you upgrade 1 and then replicate it, so you don't have to wait for an upgrade on this new one. Extractors, the same.
Yeah, the cost is a lot higher but you don't need to research anything, is already done. Two base, on the second you still don't have an armory, then you replicate it and is instantly build, no need to wait for the MAC to finish it, and it has all the upgrades you did on the first one.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's how replicate SHOULD work, but it's not how it actually works. It should work by selecting a structure to replicate, but the way you do it is via the CC. Placing a replicated armory will just put a regular armory. It really doesn't matter though, as once you researched weapons, they are available at ALL armories, not just advanced ones. You could lose all your armories and you still have advanced weapons. Kind of makes it pointless for aliens to attack the armory once fully upgraded now. Hope they fix these bugs.
I'll wait and see what they will do with it ;)
Well, the other day I did it and the replicated armory was the upgraded one, and you see it because it looks different in the top.
Well, maybe there is some way the game knows which building you are replicating. If you figure it out, let me know. You should have the choice of replicating a vanilla armory cheaply vs an advanced armory for significantly more resources. Right now there is no way to differentiate (or at least I don't know how to do it). Replicate should be done from each individual structure, not as a function out of the Command Station.