Vertical Construction / Stacking Factories

Whether this is a bug provoked by teaming AI's or a actual part of the plan, I think it is GENIUS! And adds strategic depth like no RTS ever had!

Do I stack my factories for an overall slightly more resitant tower of factories or do I not take this risk because it could lead to me loosing all my production at once because it was targeted? alls a question of strategy.

(this tower could also have the advantage of showing up as a single radar blip. fooling the enemy)

of course this currently only aplies to air factories but I imagine an idea where descend ramps would be added to the top ones (yes on a single side and yes this would remove the posibility of choice of exit sides but we can add that to the downsides list) :



Or there could be an elevator in the center of the tower and at the bottom it would just look like it's spitting units out at a really good rate.
HENCE ....POLL !!

Re: AIs can stack air Facs WHAAAAAAAAAA ?

OhMyGo~d

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

Re: AIs can stack air Facs WHAAAAAAAAAA ?

Hahahahahahahaha what the **** xD! This is absolutely hilarious.

With that, I have NO idea of my opinion on thus, whether I would want it or not, but it's amazing, and will definitely be watching this thread before making a decision.

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I guess assisting the factories on top is out of the question...

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GIMME! :shock:

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No :?: who said that? I said the idea would be a factory stack (a factory skyscraper basically) with combined health... why in the hell not combined assisting?

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Want.

How about having stacked defences for building your own customised Doomsday Machine? xD

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:lol:
uhm... debatable

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Atleast 1 way to reach the moon :lol:

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Intrigued by the idea.

Surely would add depth and help with traffic jams later in the game....

Combined health is to much to ask. It should maybe have...

2*70%=140%, 3*60%=180%, 4*55%=220%, 5*50%=250% of 1 fab health.

... but otherwise i'm in, as long there is a hard limit to the stack.

For assist, maybe like this (so that it pays of stacking):

2*105%=210%, 3*110%=330%, 4*120%=480%, 5*130%=650% of 1 fab buildrate

One build queue, stacking as "upgrade"? Clearly should be assist able by engis.

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yes, it is genius. that would bring something new to the core gameplay. I'd like to see some skyscrapers.

Also, why not bot and vehicle factories as well? Maybe even naval, though that would look really weird lel. edit: oh wait...

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Removed image spam. There are clear rules against pointless image spamming, so don't do it.

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It's...an interesting idea. I can't quite decide whether or not I like the sound of it. I think I'd be happy either way. Kudos to the OP for the cinematic pictures btw. I love the one with the moon in the background xD

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Most definitely, I was thinking 5 or 6 max, because otherwise it looks unreal.

Ty, I couldn't help myself, it always looks soo much better with the moon. and yea the freecam mode allows for some real neat visuals

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i think the height in which you can stack should be associated with the height limit for the planet

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Interesting, sounds like a good idea, I didn't know there was a varying height limit for planets... is there?

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You should be able to build higher on smaller planets, since there's less gravity there and the lower levels don't have to take as much weight.

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arg, here comes Awesome VS Realism again, I'm sorry but as authentic as that would be I'd much prefer it be the other way around for aesthetic's sake.

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yes there is a slider for it in the planet editor. it determines how high the mountains and other formations are allowed to be.

also protoplanets are caused by height limits being much smaller then the planet's radius

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smaller planets does not necessarily mean weaker gravity and bigger planets does not mean stronger gravity