Skunkwork

[Snowflake]

I have never seen skunkwork in the list of available facilities even after I've done the research. I have done quite a few games and I have actually researched every research in every game but still no skunkworks. What did I do wrong?

[Maniac]

The only reason I can come up with is that you are playing with the Spartans, who are not able to build skunkworks, as they don't have extra costs for building prototypes.

[Snowflake]

But I was playing Gaians.

[Jamski]

Or playing on Citizen level = no prototypes

-Jam

[Snowflake]

I'm on the third level now, specialist or talent or something like that. But I probably forgot to check after not finding it for a long time. I'll go check again.

[Flubber]

IT DOES exist if your game is working properly but I find that building it in one or two bases is enough.

[Method]

i know for sure that it doesn't appear on the lower levels because you get prototypes for free, like jam says

[BustaMike]

Doesn't really matter. There's really no reason to ever build a skunkworks, especially since crawlers can be used to complete prototypes and prototypes get a free morale upgrade.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Unless of course your going to do a massive PB build at all your bases using crawler cash ins at all the bases as prototypes. Then it makes sense to have the skunkworks at your HQ as that base will build at 1/2 the mins, and then all the subsequent bases will have their min requirement halved thus allowing the dreaded instant fleet of PB's.

[Mongoose]

2/3 of the minerals. Prototype penalty is 50%

[Jamski]

OK, now some clever git explain what "Skunkworks" are. Where did they find this word?

-Jam

[Maniac]

I read in the newspaper some years ago the name of a research/construction/prototype department of one of the major airplane construction companies: Boei(i?)ng/Airbus/McDonnell-Douglas Skunkworks.

[Petek]

Originally posted by Jamski
OK, now some clever git explain what "Skunkworks" are. Where did they find this word?

-Jam

According to the tenth edition of the Merriam Webster's Collegiate dictionary, the term derives from "Skonk Works", an illicit distillery in the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp. The definition is "a usu. small and often isolated department or facility (as for engineering or research development) that functions with minimal supervision within a company or corporation."

[Flare]

You have to have the required tech before you can use skunkworks & be on the third level or above. Sometimes useful, sometimes not.

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by BustaMike
Doesn't really matter. There's really no reason to ever build a skunkworks, especially since crawlers can be used to complete prototypes

But skunkwork will enable you to use less crawlers, yes?

and prototypes get a free morale upgrade.

Does skunkwork eliminate prototype cost or prototype all together (with the free morale upgrade)?