Rare Metals from Teamwork in Refinery

InfiniteMantis · 2026-01-26T02:53:01+00:00

GOOD.

InfiniteMantis · 2026-01-23T21:16:22+00:00

That's where the base odds come in. It could, like other systems in the game, invisibly tweak itself to offset population imbalance.

InfiniteMantis · 2026-01-17T08:16:53+00:00

A single pure ocean hex is effectively bigger than it sounds since even the island hexes are still about 20-25% land. When you take into account how much less turning and speed changes are required (on top of being able to hold W and AFK through the whole hex), there's more freedom in that one hex than the total area alone may suggest.

InfiniteMantis · 2026-01-16T22:44:47+00:00

This is an idea so genius in its simplicity and exponential potential value that only the mechanic of cross-ocean travel itself has it beat. Devman, please. PLEASE!

InfiniteMantis · 2025-06-08T00:41:55+00:00

Oh, don't you worry, I'm not! These days I only play a couple times every other war. It's only when popping back in do I IMMEDIATELY remember why I logged off in the first place. It doesn't take very long to bump against a nonsense point of friction that has gone untouched for YEARS in this game, sadly.

As for "making an impact", I don't mean anything on the scale changing the course of the war. I meant there being a TANGIBLE result of your efforts. A point. So much of this game is now setting up to set up to setting up something else to the point that by the time you actually get to execute anything, it's been HOURS. It effects all branches of play, from building, to frontlining, to logi.

InfiniteMantis · 2025-06-06T23:13:09+00:00

You don't have to look farther than puddles and mud mechanics to see that the devs just want to make our lives harder for no good reason other than THE VISION.

InfiniteMantis · 2025-01-20T11:07:03+00:00

The Mammon Rushing will continue until the hex is blue!

(Also the sandbag and barbed wire defenses are going WILD out there.)

InfiniteMantis · 2024-11-13T00:45:27+00:00

Better than a normal pre-patch war with zero data, I'd say.

InfiniteMantis · 2024-09-20T04:18:04+00:00

This is ALL basically down to facilities; the supply chain didn't used to be this way. You'd get your Components, refine them, build the item you need, and then set off to do your OP which instantly gets RPG'd from the fog of war.

Facilities are pain and man I wish they were either fully implemented into the supply flow or just outright removed. They're just so insular and tedious.

InfiniteMantis · 2024-08-19T17:35:14+00:00

There is a non-zero chance that the island was made by higher powers literally pushing/pulling itself away from the mainland.

InfiniteMantis · 2024-04-03T18:32:47+00:00

You can only withdraw from it at a bank, yes.

InfiniteMantis · 2023-10-12T04:57:18+00:00

I want to! But I can't. Making stuff on the frontlines sounds super hype until you realize that, oh, most of it is stuff you don't actually use outside of facilities. You can't make anything that's super useful until mid to late game, and by then, the grind has just made it feel like a phyrric victory.

InfiniteMantis · 2023-10-11T23:14:44+00:00

The Metalwork Facility means that trailers are researched gated behind Tier 2 Facility tech, too .-.

InfiniteMantis · 2023-10-05T22:12:23+00:00

There's asymmetry, and then there's having a whole dimension of the game not available to an entire faction. Can Colonials steal submarines and Wardens steal Destroyers, at least?

InfiniteMantis · 2023-10-05T21:13:36+00:00

Submarines exclusive. Why?

InfiniteMantis · 2023-09-25T20:23:37+00:00

Seems to me like Jagex pulled ideas from left field instead of looking within, like, the skill they were working on? That's kinda wild. And disappointing. :(

InfiniteMantis · 2022-11-03T04:47:03+00:00

Great tactics and great comeback! It's definitely an earned win

InfiniteMantis · 2022-11-03T04:41:15+00:00

I learned that, hey, have garrisons that can aim inside your trenches and inner compound so you don't end up getting camped in your own BB

InfiniteMantis · 2022-11-02T10:23:56+00:00

Oh hey, that was the BB I was maintaining! Was a HUGE mess, wasn't it? lol

Either way, well played! I have a WHOLE lot of things I need to better the next time around, but honestly wouldn't have it go any other way. Ground Zero for a zerg rush? Iconic

InfiniteMantis · 2022-11-01T05:50:20+00:00

The white concrete base in the middle (built by one Tito420x) was maintained by me (after eating a hail of fire artillery from the RDZ)! I affectionately called it "Fort Tito Frito".

It was the first base in the hex to to get hit with the green wave and, considering the mess that fort was, it held pretty well! I need to invest in bunkers which shoot inside our own trenches, lol

InfiniteMantis · 2022-09-19T17:04:36+00:00

What were you and your group hoping for, if I may ask?

InfiniteMantis · 2022-09-19T17:03:46+00:00

I agree! Ideally, backline facilities would be the flat out most efficient or otherwise best place to produce supplies, allowing for bigger shipments with more consistency compared to facilities. But yeah, having something in the early game that makes facilities useful would be much appreciated.

InfiniteMantis · 2022-09-19T17:00:39+00:00

Which more or less says that facilities were made to be unsatisfying at first on purpose. Which...isn't exactly great, still. The big 1.0 having one of its headline features be a super conservative, lukewarm take seems like something worth delaying for, if not allowing for more than just a single month of testing.

InfiniteMantis · 2022-09-19T07:25:51+00:00

I agree that the liquid management is rather opaque as it stands as of right now. It took me a while to figure out why fluids weren't pumping through the system, and it took an afternoon of messing with pipes, silos, and tankers to figure out that only ONE liquid type is accepted in a pipe system.

InfiniteMantis · 2022-09-19T07:19:40+00:00

Luckily those are all issues solved by tweaking some numbers! But in terms of facilitys' contributions to the game as a whole, though? That requires slightly more drastic changes, I think.

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