2012-09-09, 16:54:29
(2012-09-09, 13:58:25)Prog Wrote: How can they become useless in the time of deflective armor?
Having repair bots + deflective armor would really strain your inventory space. Combine that with items like tp/speed and you don't have much space for hulls/weapons. You'll also need to spend 2100 gold (assuming you had no use for radar, maybe breaker spotting) simply to stop them from using up inventory space. And what is gained for all this effort? +150 hp/sec, that's like the damage of upgraded fireball cannon. The fact of the matter is the usefulness of repair robots remains constant while deflective armor's value increases based on what weapons and how many of them the enemy has. I think you'll really need to be more specific about what tank repair robots are good on during the deflective phase.
If you're talking about Earth Robot however my experience would say otherwise. I tried an Earth Robot build involving all forms of +hp/sec with mass converter (earlier deflective) and ulti pack. The amount of money I spent on blueprints really hindered me throughout the game. In hindsight Earth Robot obviously isn't the best choice with it's inability to heal during granite defense, but then what is? I think I would've been much better served by just having deflective on it's own.