Power of open source. Most of FOSS programs are like BAR, really good, better than competitors, buuut, they are hard to get into, and require more handling. So if you got time to invest, you will be rewarded

You should donate to the devs

oh shit moo cow funny seeing you here

Even late game Ill mix one or two scouts in with heavy forces just to run ahead see shit and die to get the shots. Weapon rnage beats visual on many things.

Yes, that is exactly my problem too! Would be nice to know some guideline like you need +40 metal +400 energy to build a fus reactor or whatever the numbers are

@@sebastiangundolf6740 I'm glad I'm not the only one lol

there is an option in controls

Yup! It's in the "Interface" settings menu :) I can't quite remember the name but it's definitely there

If you're fully stalling metal with no reclaim available and you're not stalling energy, you'd consider energy converters. If you're not stalling either, you go nanos. Until you're stalling something. :) He explained his decision in this game: he was getting so much reclaim, he didn't need to bother with converters. He just pumped the nanos and made more units. Once reclaim got completely absurd, he went T3. This is not necessarily a normal experience of playing the game. He was bullying a much lower level player, and (importantly) understood how to turn the map advantage into econ advantage.

@@mighatesmakingusers So the idea was to instead of spending x amount on t2 energy converters, use the metal to pump more units because he had enough metal from reclaim.

@@kitoru Correct, and he was pushing downward and taking the metal patches of the opponent. Every single mine he built gave him much better metal:energy ratio than building advanced metal converters. The one thing I'd slightly criticize is that he could go for regular energy converters as they only cost 1 metal and some amount of energy though his use of build power in that situation is probably the better choice in using time/attention resources. An important calculus for any build or econ decision is "what precisely could I use the time, units, build power, metal, and energy resources on instead of this?" You want to in general try to go for the greatest benefit at the least cost with there being a lot of fuzziness in that calculus due to trying to predict the future, so things which are beneficial immediately might not be as beneficial later, and things which might have huge value over the length of the game might have unnoticeable or questionable benefits in any particular slice of time. Something that I rarely see with these games because everyone tends to be playing so hard is frontliners establishing a sufficient defensive line and auxiliary forward base that they can transition to backliners or what I'll call midliners. With the advance that Drongo achieved in that game, he could have transitioned into a midliner as the game dragged on. Early game, you have to specialize very very hard, but the longer the game goes the more opportunity you get to diversify and the smarter it becomes to create multiple failsafes and redundancies.

Yes, the Experimental type.

I write noobs only but people are so good

Definitely not fun.

Ideally you would never make such a massive energy surplus to begin with. You would use the resources you would’ve spent on a bunch of generators and converters on units, gaining map presence, wrecks, and mass extractors (which pay themselves off very quickly). Use surplus metal from reclaim to tech up push for more map, repeat. If two frontlines fight, one going converters+gens the other units, the units guy gets more map AND more resources

you need to put build power towards the converters and that costs you unit production you would otherwise use to ideally push and get a comparative eco advantage by doing damage

I think you did pretty well given that you're up against Drongo. He gives you pointers here in the section about securing the front, d-gunning and positioning, and static defense. You got his commander which was pretty good. The major thing to work on is you relied almost entirely on your commander and static defenses for securing the line. You were out maneuvered by Drongo which was only possible because he used mobile units in addition to his towers and commander. Early game static defensive lines are often good enough in skirmishes against the AI, but players are way more aggressive and dynamic with their units. So you needed a few different kinds of units to back your laser/flamer line; there were a couple of parts where you could have risked your commander to d-gun his entire block of units that were harassing you, and if you knew you were going to lose the line you should consider a commander bomb against his line to deny him the position. You'd still need to immediately get constructors and offensive units to the line and try to reclaim and push back the front. Also, I'd say going for two flamers then the longer range gatling laser tower would probably have done you better because that flamer did huge damage against him and very effectively punished him pushing into your territory.