If you have more than 10 ras boys you’re playing pretty bad. Mass fab grids are better for scaling after t2 mass fab rings. You make boys for the bp and the small eco boost that can ideally be used for further mass fabs until you reach game ender stage.
They aren’t essential and can be replaced with t3 engies. You got a better argument for demanding aeon and phim getting engie stations than RAS SCUs for phim, frankly.
I may be dumb, but I use a blueprint with a T3 shield at the center with it's entire protected area covered with T2 fabs + 4 T3 pgens. The blueprint is a bit pain, because different factions have different T3 shield radius, and there is Cybrans... Or maybe the best idea would be to use the radius of the Cybran ED4, so that you don't lose much in case it all explodes.
@ftxcommando Maybe you will like this idea: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4715/sacu-lives-matter/
I worry about ideas that incentivize you to convert your ACU into a mobile nuke tbh. I’d want a reworked ACU explosion to make that idea work.
Idk I think it's a fair question in general. Why does sera not have ras bois? Is there any particular reason for the exclusion, or is it just an unnecessary annoyance?
Because they have overcharge SCUs that are way cooler and more fun, and their unupgraded SCUs generate more resources.
Seraphim have some of the biggest, most protective shield domes. Dig your heels in like your success depends on it, because it does.
@casternumerouno said in Why seraphim dont have RAS?:
A ras lad takes 10 minutes to pay off. In that time you can have a fucking paragon running.
What on earth are you talking about? Do you know Sera can't make a Paragon? You're making no sense. What does a fucking paragon have to do with Sera not having Ras Acus?
Meanwhile....
Ras SACU are the natural eco upgrade after Ras on ACU which is the natural upgrade after ringing all t3 mexes that you can safely defend. Sera needs the mobile eco option just as the other races do. Giving them overcharge SACUs as compensation is not balanced or logical. The three other races have RAS SACU, what is the critical thinking behind Sera not having them?
Lol. News flash: RAS bois are a meme and nowhere near as good or efficient as you seem to think they are.
@exselsior Mobile economy can ignore game-enders, and all you need is to spread gateways and order RAS spam while you micro somewhere else. Mostly happens on Seton's Clatch (https://youtu.be/saAkZlZfDoQ?t=2922). They just go underwater and have fun killing them.
@casternumerouno Did your parents not teach you not to litter in forum threads? Have some self-control, you are wasting the time of people who are reading what you write.
@thomashiatt
Overcharge is only useful if you go and use it. Whereas mass and power income improvements are constant.
Sera unupgraded SACUS:
Mass cost 2050 - output 2 mass
Power cost 26000 - output 200 power
So thats roughly 1 mass recieved per 1K mass cost.
Now lets look at eg Cybran RAS ACUs:
Mass cost 6500 - output 11 mass
Power cost 116400 - output 1020 power
So that's roughly 2 mass recieved per 1k cost.
Sera needs RAS ACUS, their unupgraded SACUs are pitiful in comparison.
@exselsior said in Why seraphim dont have RAS?:
Lol. News flash: RAS bois are a meme and nowhere near as good or efficient as you seem to think they are.
Lol. News flash. The topic of debate in this thread is that the races should have rough parity in availabilty and quality of RAS SACUs. You seem to think this is a thread on how good RAS bois are. You are wrong. Tool.
@casternumerouno said in Why seraphim dont have RAS?:
Are you that stupid...
What's your informed, educated and clearly set out argument on Sera RAS ACU availablity then. Come on, teach us your wise ways.
I have probably ~1k games played on Seton's at the ~1800+ level by this point. Sera doesn't need ras bois to be competitive. The times you see guys like Yudi win games with epic ras boi spam are also games Yudi could have won 50 other ways. Hardly ever is ras boi spam the truly best way to win the game, and for the less than 1% of the time that they actually are the best way to win who cares? There are games that I would have won if I was Sera and could have made a washer. Should we give the other factions a washer? There are games I lost because the only game ender I could make was a scathis and I really needed a mavor or para + salv spam. Should we give every faction a mavor like weapon? No and no.
Edit: Those games I lost that I might have won as a different factions are still skill issues on my part. If you replaced myself with Yudi/Tagada/Farms or whoever they probably would have won.
@melanol said in Why seraphim dont have RAS?:
@exselsior Mobile economy can ignore game-enders, and all you need is to spread gateways and order RAS spam while you micro somewhere else. Mostly happens on Seton's Clatch (https://youtu.be/saAkZlZfDoQ?t=2922). They just go underwater and have fun killing them.
The FAF Balance Cycle:
Top players get bored of abusing meta
Top players play intentionally trash tactics because it's fun
Trash tactics work in lobby where nobody is playing seriously
Trash tactics get casted because it's whacky and funny
Now I need to read why trash tactics are OP because this high rated guy did it and it's impossible for a high rated guy to ever do anything not good
@exselsior said in Why seraphim dont have RAS?:
many things said
The issue is not:
-that sera needs ras bois to be competitive
-that there are many ways to win a game
No one is saying that:
-games can't be won other ways
-that ras bois must be built
And there's no need for the various strawman arguments which are not relevant to the topic here. Once more, for those who seem to be lacking in basic comprehension -
respectfully; what is the balance teams current logic (and i have no doubt they do acutally have one) on why the Sera team do not have RAS SACUS as an option. That's it.
