Why is the bot fabber stronger than the vehicle fabber?

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  1. godde

    godde Well-Known Member

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    The fabrication bot got more health and cost less than the fabrication vehicle.
    What should be the redeeming factor for the vehicle fabber?
  2. bobucles

    bobucles Post Master General

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    You're... going to find a lot of that right now. Some things are just plain better at this juncture.
  3. godde

    godde Well-Known Member

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    Well. It is beta. Time for those kinds of things to shape up.
    Not sure where to report this.
    It isn't a bug but is almost an objective oversight/imbalance.
  4. darac

    darac Active Member

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    vehicle fabber leads to Levelers... I still build them for that reason. But yeah, it's a bit odd. Bot should be faster but weaker imo.
  5. thetrophysystem

    thetrophysystem Post Master General

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    I agree. Those buggers are efficient builders, being fragile might be a tradeoff. Vehicle being endurance would make it useful. Beside starting leveler, when do you ever build more than one veh fabber. I let a few t2 fab bots actually build it, veh fabber just starts blueprints.
  6. GoogleFrog

    GoogleFrog Active Member

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    Do we have stats for their speed?
  7. smallcpu

    smallcpu Active Member

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    Yes we have, courtesy of the excellent PA unit database.

    Both have a maxspeed of 12 while the bot accelerates and turns twice as fast. (It also has 150 hp compared to 100 for the vehicle and costs only 180 metal compared to 225 for the vehicle again. Every other stat is the same)

    So yeah... Not much point in the vehicle at all currently.
  8. hanspeterschnitzel

    hanspeterschnitzel Active Member

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    The bot costs less metal because the bot factory has a lower metal output. So the bot fabber and the veh fabber might have the same production time.
  9. AyanZo

    AyanZo Active Member

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    doesn't the vehicle build faster? I thought that was its redeeming quality?

    In my head I ordered these in terms of build speed, someone correct me here...

    air fabbers < bot fabbers < vehicle fabbers =? boat fabbers
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  10. zaphodx

    zaphodx Post Master General

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    http://pa-db.com
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  11. godde

    godde Well-Known Member

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    They do have the same production time and same energy cost as well.
  12. fergie

    fergie Member

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    Yes so they are made just as fast as each other, but the Bot Fabers have less effect on your econ when being built in your factory. A rather nice bonus when its early and you need every piece of metal you can get

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