@evildrew said in Sera&Aoen SACU upgrade slots reordering to make Aoen SACU upgrade options more relevant and nerf Sera Tele SACU:
A tele sacu teles inside the shield, it can one shot a shield and walk over into the less protected side, the shield does not matter.
This forbidden structure from clearly more advanced civilisation took approximately 2:30 to penetrate with a single sacu, and i couldn't manage to find a single opening in the shields that would let me damage smd instead of them.
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IF you happen to have no space around smd, you can have a single t2/t3 land fac producing t2/t3 mobile shields to protect it, and its even better since those can move to adjust to sacu movement.
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@evildrew said in Sera&Aoen SACU upgrade slots reordering to make Aoen SACU upgrade options more relevant and nerf Sera Tele SACU:
Auto OC only fires every 5 seconds and manual OC cannot be fired every 3.3seconds even though it says you can there are reaction times and stuff that make it only theory.
As a fellow 2.2k rated player, you should be able to get yourself 15 seconds of free time to protect your most valuable building in the game by OCing manually, or ordering a few rows of t1 pds.
@evildrew said in Sera&Aoen SACU upgrade slots reordering to make Aoen SACU upgrade options more relevant and nerf Sera Tele SACU:
You are also forgetting that at the stage tele sacu will come into play may be at a stage when 4 missiles are loaded in the SMD and 3 nukes in the SML. A successful tele snipe will take out a lot more than it costs
At that stage, usually you have atleast 2 smds, both protected by shields and pds. An unsuccesfull telesnipe would be 20k+20k+16.5k+12k+12k+12k mass cost just wasted on nothing, leaving you to nuke random enemy buildings out of smd range.
@evildrew said in Sera&Aoen SACU upgrade slots reordering to make Aoen SACU upgrade options more relevant and nerf Sera Tele SACU:
Sacu goes for the air grid or a mass fab farm instead of the SMD. The key word here is optionality, that cannot be captured in a cost-benefit analysis that does not look at the whole picture.
SACU going for a grid is pretty much waste, unless its a t2 massfab grid that will go off from a single sacu shot. Otherwise, any pgen/t3 massfab would be reclaimed faster than ur sacu can kill it