That is the more efficient/cost effective base setup for now I guess. But once I get enough rare minerals and high level saves, I'll try new things. That's also why I'm trying to get salvage on all my turrets, for convenience/redesign purposes if I want to redo my base in higher levels. I was thinking of having a suspended/ concentric highway to travel fast and easy above the mobs and collect coins. And why not build a real castle with towers and high walls.
Yeah I'm playing in the water maps and I built a whole network of mesh bridges since traversing on water is so slow >_> I lose about 50-200 mesh blocks per round. It's better than loosing turrets imo.
Here is a picture of my Atlantis Complex well the workings of it. That is only a small portion though.
I usually build two or three 3x3 platforms above my barracks, sort of like stacking some "T"s on top of each other. On these platforms I mount long range direct fire weapons like lasers and howitzers. This is as tall as I go however. Next I dig down to the bedrock in rings around my barracks. In the first ring I build mine shafts, which I upgrade to drills later. The second ring has a 10 orbital lasers and 10 MIRVs, with a mortar in the corners. After that I build a ring of tech blocks (some may prefer mesh) tall enough to cover the orbital lasers, MIRVs, mortars, and shafts/drills. Then block armor goes on every exposed block face. By keeping your profile as low as possible you minimize the angles of attack that the long range Goblocks have. Now there is a trade off in that your direct fire weapons won't have the most efficient attack angles either, but you have indirect fire and they don't (unless you count jet pack Goblocks). I usually don't build anything on the top platform just so I can stand there and watch for anything that gets too close. This has lasted up through wave 43 on normal so far and hasn't lost anything major except a few mesh blocks and maybe a laser turret.
Hmm, well this is probably the third time I've died. 3 Laser goblocks at wave 47 can 1 hit KO easy. Those 2000 blocks you see lost are mesh blocks
I wish i had one more weapon/item slot. I'm always carying the same gear (PR, HPR, stimpack, spotter). But I would love to fool around with other guns... Pretty Please
Has anyone figured out how experience works yet? Do you earn more based on whether you kill the enemy or your base does?
It's both I'm assuming. There have been instances where I'm watching my towers killing enemies and I'm leveling up.
I like how the howitzer says "Big Bertha" on the side, but I would love it if the .50 cal said "Ma Duece"! Can we make this happen? For reference... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning
Game's slipping down the charts... Went from 3rd (Above Minecraft PE) to 20th.. Atleast in the Canadian store.. Which means it's time for more updates EDIT: Today shifted back up to 13 :S, hope this game has consistency in top charts like Angry Birds, Doodle jump and Fruit ninja did for years
Very, very, interesting. My "High tower" strategy heavily relies on lasers to slow stuff down while the oribital lasers/heavy plasmas take out groups and howitzers take down heavy elites. It works extremely well, with no hitches up to wave 55, but I keep losing turrets and having to restart waves. Perhaps I need to consider more indirect fire.... the problem is that you NEED a long range slow tower to survive later against high HP jet packers. The "tower" benefits greatly from having a large height and turrets attached to the bottom, as ALL the turrets can cover 300+ degrees around the tower, depending on how far away they are from my center stem. I'd have to figure out some way to make a tower that could hold turrets far away without blocking MIRVs or Mortars or Orbital Lasers, if I wanted to use howitzers as my main DPS.... Or I could try and let the mobs get closer without targeting them, on a hilly map where I was in a valley, using mortars as slow.....and spamming plasmas/heavy plasmas. I'm afraid I don't really know how to use MIRV's well. Or I could go super close range, and spam freeze guns, electro orbs, and flamethrowers....so many possibilities! I'm going to push my Tower until it dies first though.
You're losing lots of turrets? Really? I've only lost 1 Orbital and 2 Plasmas and I'm nearing your number. I spend hundreds of dollars building a mesh complex. I think the only reason you lose turrets is due to those long range laser rifle goblocks. They hit some 300 damage easy at waves 50+. They are more dangerous than shadows.
Build phase assassins. Just had my tower destroyed by an enemy during the build phase. It's happened a couple times now. I have photographic proof. Is nothing sacred?
