As far as RAS SCUs are concerned it is true that theoretically, the RAS upgrade is more efficient than the mass fab grid. However, this ignores the fact that
- You can't get the upgrade without paying for the SCU itself
- If you are interested in the purely economical aspect of such a unit the extra value you get from the HP, DPS, and BP may not be worth the extra cost
Here are some of the stats:
2 T3 Pgen + 2 T3 Mass Fab grid | |
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Mass Income | 32 |
Energy Income | 3126 |
Mass Cost | 14480 |
Energy Cost | 355200 |
Mass Cost / Mass Income | 452.5 |
Energy Cost / Mass Income | 113.6276392 |
RAS SCU Upgrade | |
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Mass Income | 10 |
Energy Income | 1000 |
Mass Cost | 4500 |
Energy Cost | 90000 |
Mass Cost / Mass Income | 450 |
Energy Cost / Mass Income | 90 |
RAS SCU | |
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Mass Income | 11 |
Energy Income | 1020 |
Mass Cost | 6450 |
Energy Cost | 117100 |
Mass Cost / Mass Income | 586.3636364 |
Energy Cost / Mass Income | 114.8039216 |
RAS SCU adjusted for BP | |
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Mass Income | 11 |
Energy Income | 1020 |
Mass Cost | 5867.6 |
Energy Cost | 114188 |
Mass Cost / Mass Income | 533.4181818 |
Energy Cost / Mass Income | 111.9490196 |
The BP adjustment simply subtracted the cost of T1 engineers with the same amount of BP as the SCU (56). This is to more closely simulate the cost of the SCU since we can assume that its BP would be used in most cases contrary to its defensive capabilities.
As you can see for pure economical scaling the Mass Fab grid is more efficient however the RAS SCUs have other advantages such as more hp, having DPS, being able to move, being a lot more compact, being less volatile, etc. etc. Simply speaking it's a trade-off. That doesn't mean that we, as the Balance Team, believe they are in the correct spot right now. On the contrary, there even is a PR that adjusts the SCU. It's currently in the development and testing phase and it will be merged in the next patch.
That doesn't change the fact that calculating these numbers without taking into account adjacency is bogus and far from flawless mathematical demonstration, and the proposed changes stemming from those flawed calculations were absolutely not acceptable.