Spamming pgens versus building factories+pgens

[Flynn]

Hey I remembered something from the early days of SupCom, people used to build a factory and two or three pgens to power that factory instead of just spamming a line of pgens. Nowadays I've noticed the pro players seem to spam a line of pgens even though building factories+pgens is more efficient and easier with the template function.

[ZaphodX]

I think pgens still give you a small power reduction to your buildings, it's probably just to minimise time spent on it. Personally I still use templates around factories.

[ColonelSheppard]

building pgens around factories or straight in a line makes them extremey vulnerable to t1 bombers

better build it like this (at least later)

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[Flynn]

Hey guys, umm...I meant more like building a factory, then 3 pgens then a factory, then 3 pgens. Instead of building pgen spam+factories.

[ZaphodX]

I've never seen that done, especially by good players.

This may be useful for not wasting so much power or making you pgs possibly a bit safer but this is not a tactic I would choose to use. A bit inefficient and unreliable with speed of getting out factories, and harder to adjust the build queue.

[ColonelSheppard]

yeah, it'might be slightly better, but it's way too complicated and you need your time elsewhere

[Myxir]

from my experience, it's more "stable" to keep building power instead of switching to a factory over and over again
of course it's possible, to do both with the same group of engineers, but it's easier to have some engies building power and some building factories

( in the time you build a landfac (assuming engies don't behave as stupid as usual), you need 2.5x longer as for a pgn, that means you have less energy than someone who doesn't build a factory with his energy-engineer-group, and it becomes actually harder to balance your energy right when you get reclaim or need additional energy for t2 air or some other stuff )

[ZLO_RD]

How to buld power? nice question, that depend only on your microing skills, and what you like to do in game, some players spam a lot of air with t1 power, i mean for them fac 3 pgend fac 3 pgens may be not an option, some one going for ACU upgraide with only t1 power, some one never do that
some one make so low power build that they do not need power spam, and can handle with trees xD
For example i almost never OC t1 units (5000 power for thouse 2-4 tanks? no thanks i better reclaim them after they die)
i prefere do not waste power, and do not waste power to oc t1... (i know some one will disagree ofc)

you can just make line of power, line of templates, squares of power where you can put air fac later, or connect each pgen to 3-4 factories or mex, IMO that only depends on your micro and habits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhjUrSRFGU
^Here i am trying to do my usual stuff with no lines of factories and lines of power, but after 2:33 i am microing units while ACU is idle and resoses are stored too much and i decide that "looks like i need land spam and power spam" and after few seconds i can pay my attansion to other stuff