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[Bigheaded]

Zzero, the repair units "currently" have longer range than that, and are able to repair 1 along and 1 diagnol.

As an image (with some form of gridlines):



I've shown a few places where the repair units are doing nothing and crossed them out. I've tried to show two ways to build (top half and lower half, top half uses more repair bots, lower half makes better use of one of the repair units to repair two sides, i'd say the top half is more effective as it has more repairer's in total)

This shows also that one repair unit split 1 space away and so that it's at the bottom half or top half of a wall, will still be repaired, which Zer0o's pic does not indicate.
Apparently this was going to be removed so that you could only repair via one directly one space behind (Zero's 2nd picture of repair units, the top one of the 5). Currently it's still available though and very much worth doing!

[Bigheaded]

a repair factory will repair at 2.5, a repair unit will repair at 3.0 (in this case, lower is better). If you upgrade the repair units, they will eventually get better, but seeing you generally want to use it immediately, factories make more sense.

This is why walls are repaired by repair units, rather than factories

[Jem]

Wow~

[ReD]

QUOTE (magerox @ Mar 6 2013, 06:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I just realised there's such a thing after playing with another guy.

If I build something around a few repair factories, the speed of building will increase right? Does this speed stack? How far away must the repair factory be away from my building spot?

Also are there any other tricks?

Yeah, repair factories/repair units increase the buildingspeed and it stacks
Range of factories:

 

what a big range of repair factory

[Jem]

what a big range of repair factory

It is nerfed. Hahahaha

[ReD]

So which is better? Repair unit or repair factory to boost the speed of buildings? I assume repair factory since it takes a shorter time to build? (from what I notice)
And since it takes a shorter time to build, I can build more things at a faster rate.

the better is Repair Factory

[Bigheaded]

It is nerfed. Hahahaha

actually, all of the ones in zzero's screenshot are still in range for current versions. So it has not been nerfed.

[Waffle(est)]

repair factory has better range. (that's also why it apprears that they are built faster. more factories help build each other than would be possible with repair units)

 

As i normally aim for highest possible end game production and care about nothing else i'm fine with it. (starting with a tiny mill doesn't hurt tho )

(-pool -cede and -kill/-destroy/-detonate are basically there cuz then i need micro less... except for kill that i did for another reason..)* **

 

*oh dear waffle is so selfish! 

**this comment conflicts with itself, it is therefore incoherent ranbling and must be ignored