Some mass/energy considerations and resource system realism

From how i see it, the resource system in Supcom is quite unrealistic; the stuff that engies beam into stuff, i presume, is nanodust, made of self-replicating nanobots. What else could it be? And so the whole mass/energy dualism is superficial, there be only one resource, namely nanodust. Why we couldnt reclaim the ground?

And an energy transfer, seeing that it propagates without any material conduits, we can only assume that it uses Tesla principle with planet as a conductor. But then any energy produced should be available to any receiver on the planet, regardless of its faction!

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So is there a point to this thread?

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bravo

and I don't mean that sarcastically or anything

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Nanodust? Tesla Energy? Realism?

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Posts he, living in a world powered by tesla energy.

In PA reclaiming the ground is explained, the resource is explicitly metal and not just "mass".

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In before the customary bmb fringe pseudoscience circus.

You can. It's what mass fabricators do, at great energy cost. Mass points are just sources of easily convertible mass. This is the only remotely sane justification for how SupCom's economy works, as otherwise you get ridiculous numbers for how much one unit of Energy is supposed to represent if you operate on your assumption that mass fabricators actually make matter using energy to matter conversion.

You didn't read any of SupCom's lore, did you? They explicitly use "quantum communication" to transfer energy wirelessly between units. How this works? Nobody knows because SC invents several new particles, but it's probably something to do with quantum entanglement, and nothing to do with anything Telsa talked about, as he was probably unaware of QM.

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Resources are probably the least realistic thing about this and any RTS series.

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"quantum" in this instance can translate as well into "magic". The principle is functionally roughly the same as the tesla world grid even if they use quantum magic to explain it. He even spoke of teleporting matter at one point although it was never explained how he thought that was possible.

I'm not sure why you think that the explicit description of how a unit operates is non-canon. The values are a bit crazy because it's a game and it doesn't really care about the physics behind energy/matter conversion. Besides 100 energy could be anything, it's never given a unit. Neither is mass for that matter.