by DieKrake
DocCool wrote:
50% for the Swarmlings (ahead of Dwarves!) really surprises me..
Like has already been said before me, I also do think it is often done for the VPs.
Consider the following:
- They have more resources but higher costs for their structures (in comparison to the anti-swarmlings aka Engineers which have less resources (esp workers) but lower costs).
This makes investments with fixed costs like dig-advancements relatively more (less) interesting compared to other factions (excluding special cases like Halflings, Alchemists, Ice, ..).
Same argument counts for income-BONs/TWs/cultbonuses: They are generally speaking relatively more interesting for Enginners and less for swarmlings compared to the VP-heavy BONs and TWs. You could even talk about harddigs > How many times have you harddigged with Engineers?:zombie:
- Swarmlings extra resources worth mentioning are: 1 extra worker as income, 3 (!) workers per TW, extra Priest as income from SA and a lot of PW-income.
Last point often explodes pretty quickly if you consider ...
- ... that Swarmlings love to start with a SH (>pw as income and a lot of TPs). This however means that they often do miss FAV11. As they also do not have an inherent faction ability to score VPs, they have to look for other sources to invest their resources and score VPs (eg Endgame, FAV10, BONs and TWs (see above:p), ...).
- If you just look at the VP-factor and only advance for the VPs, you obviously generate:
1P2W5C = 8C => "3,33"VPs (does not exist but yo get what i mean (it is 3 or 4)) generated due to the 6VPs from the dig-upgrade.
Opportunity costs for triggering most other sources of VPs are just "higher" as their buildings are more expensive and building stuff is kind of a good way to score points (round scoring, increase # of structures for BON-scoring, Build structures for Network, scoring-FAV). The costs are obviously higher compared to other factions but still pretty low as building structures most of the time helps you in several ways and might take away something from your opponent at the same time.