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Jan 31 2008, 4:54 PM EST
As machina are sooo expensive, when you start out, the rate of growth is much slower than other heroes, and it takes a long time for the long term economy of machinas to really take effect.
So my question is, when initially expanding (from the very beginning) is it better to just stay the same size for a few days while you build up your machina army, or is it better to buy soldiers, and expand at a faster pace, and then once you get to a certain size, start converting soldiers in to mechina?
With 25% barracks It will take 63* turns for a mechina to be more cost effective than 5 soldiers (5, because machina are 5 times as strong)
*[Although, taking in to account rust, and any losses, this figure may be higher. with rust at about 0.15% per turn, and a machina costing 550 gold, that becomes 0.8 gold per turn extra, so in real terms, the upkeep of each machina is ~1 gold per turn. Taking this in to account, it takes more like 73 turns].
So would it be better to buy a load of soldiers to expand in the first few days, and then upgrade to machina when you get the money in, or would it be better to upgrade everything from the start, and wait?
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