Formers Or Rover Formers

[Impaler[WrG]]

I modify the Alpha to double the movment of all Chassies so infantry is now 2 movment and all my regular formers move like Rover formers

How should I vote then?

[Trithemius]

Originally posted by Method
rover formers after fusion power. If for some reason i'm playing so late in the game that they become something to look into, Hovertank formers or even gravship formers

Gravship formers are fun, I enjoy using them to make landbridges or to expand small islands... although only when I am fooling around - its not exactly a serious strategy.

[Method]

Oh no, techtonic missiles are much more fun for doing that

[Jamski]

When used against the Pirates, of course

-Jam

[Lefty Scaevola]

I build crawly formers until I get fusion

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
I modify the Alpha to double the movment of all Chassies so infantry is now 2 movment and all my regular formers move like Rover formers

How should I vote then?

bananaformer

[Trithemius]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
I build crawly formers until I get fusion

Reactors alter terraforming rates, right?

[Dansz]

Orininally posted by Trithemius
Reactors alter terraforming rates, right?

I just tried making a former and changing the reactor, and the terraforming times didn't change, so it seams the reactor makes no difference.

[livid imp]

Don't think so. I believe he mentioned fusion reactor cause a fusion rover former costs the same as a regular fission infantry former.

[Adalbertus]

I used to build rover formers as soon as possible (sometimes I had only 9 infantry formers) but I think I'll change that. Rover formers are too expensive. This will change only when a base builds a Rover former in one turn...

IIRC, a fusion rover former costs three (or four?) rows of minerals. More than a fission infantry former but way cheaper than a fission rover former.

[johndmuller]

After Fusion, I find myself more likely to build Rover Crawlers and especially Rover CP's than Rover Formers, but if you're still building roads, a couple of RFormers would come in handy, unless Design Workshop slots are becoming scarce, which could argue against too many new designs. IMhO, Clean Formers and later SuperClean Formers and the occasional FungiFormer are more useful, and bearing in mind the sea versions of all of them, I hate using up so many DW slots with all the Former variations, so one has to draw the line somewhere. BTW - IIRC, Regular Fission Formers are cheaper than Fusion Formers of any persuasion.

[Sikander]

I build simple infantry formers at first, then clean infantry formers. Once I get fusion I upgrade all of them to super - armored - clean - infantry formers and new formers are super - clean - rovers until grav tanks become available. Like Adalbertus I am mainly concerned with creating the best unit possible within the shortest time in the queue, the only exception being that clean formers early on will take precedence over plain formers once they are available.