2008-02-19, 22:54:31
Like early guns that are outclassed later in the game, the repair robots outlive their usefullness once a certain threshold has been reached. Nothing risked, nothing gained.
That would only mean the repair kits are more useful after you have more than 6k-7k. End even then repair-robots has advantages (you dont have to click on them, hence subjecting healing to lag, they cost no mana as well, you dont have to think about them...). Sure, they wont help you on a 1v1 battle to the death as infernals, but they will help you dog their base without having constantly to return to heal.
Besides, now that you can combine items into packs, it means that once you have a speed pack (I almost always got one late game), you are only 2000 gold away from the ultimate pack (one radar and the blue print), provided you upgraded your bots to nano bots. If you lack space, drop them (not sell them!) until you can combine them.
That would only mean the repair kits are more useful after you have more than 6k-7k. End even then repair-robots has advantages (you dont have to click on them, hence subjecting healing to lag, they cost no mana as well, you dont have to think about them...). Sure, they wont help you on a 1v1 battle to the death as infernals, but they will help you dog their base without having constantly to return to heal.
Besides, now that you can combine items into packs, it means that once you have a speed pack (I almost always got one late game), you are only 2000 gold away from the ultimate pack (one radar and the blue print), provided you upgraded your bots to nano bots. If you lack space, drop them (not sell them!) until you can combine them.