Fabrication Vehicles & Bots Building Naval Factories

If anyone has tried multiple times to build a naval factory on the edge of a body of water with vehicle or bot fabricators, you share my frustration then.

It's a frustrating experience. Sometimes I even tell the fabricator to build the factory and the fabricator just sits there.

It'd be nice if these frustrations didn't happen.

I propose a different set of building placing requirements when land fabbers build on water.

The build range of fabbers possibly should be slightly increased across the board or just when building naval factories. Also, when building naval factories with land fabbers, the building should only be placeable in that small window that is reachable by the fabbers.

Does that make sense? I may need to make an image.

It makes sense except it's kindof like the mex placements from before : it's false positives, and this should be smoothed and fixed towards release.

Use your main guy.

the com? not always an option. anyways I only ever have to try two time at most before I get it right.

Air Fabbers as a temp solution
Not that hard right now considering people tend to go for T2 bombers anyway and if you're fighting over it I'm pretty sure they move the fastest out of the fabbers so you can potentially get ahead

They may be fast to get there but in general air fabbers are inefficient.

Supcom worked around this issue by having hover engineers. It may be a good idea to have at least one in PA.

Don't forget that naval constructors want to build on land, too.

What if my Commander is on the other side of the planet?

A special hover fabricator that costs more. I really like that idea.

And yeah. That'd also be helpful for naval fabbers building on land.

Even if it's better in this particular case, it doesn't really need to cost more. It may be better to give it for free at the T1 level, because planets can have odd shapes (just look at your signature pic) so you need some flexibility across land and sea. Consider it a bonus to help early game construction flow a bit better.

That sort of freedom doesn't matter much at T2, because by then you can build a full base both ways. T2 fabbers can instead focus on special perks, like with the TA construction sub or stealth engies or something like that.

Well I'd prefer if they improve pathfinding to solve this.

Last time I checked(was quite a while ago) land fabbers that are ordered to build something on the unreachable sea would just stand there but if I manually ordered to the edge of the deep sea I could use them to build a ship factory.
You can also assist(did this quite a while ago) a shipfactory but you have to make sure that they are in range of the ship factory because otherwise they will just stand there without doing anything.