Advanced Power Plant
Two and a half times the output from the same footprint.
BuildingEconomyTier 2Structure
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 2
- Cost
- 400 metal
- Build time
- 30 s
- Hit points
- 900
- Armor
- Structure
- Vision
- 5 tiles
- Footprint
- 2×2 tiles
- Power
- +50
- Weapons
- Unarmed
- Upgrade
- 700 metal · 36 s
- Upgrade of
- Power Plant
- Upgrades to
- Singularity Power Plant
- Only obtained by upgrading; it cannot be placed directly.
The Advanced Power Plant is the upgrade of a Power Plant: two and a half times the output from the same two-by-two footprint, for roughly the cost of two new plants. Per unit of power it is a shade dearer than building fresh, so the upgrade is bought for the ground it gives back and the fewer buildings it leaves to defend, not as cheaper power.
How to use
Upgrade instead of sprawling once your base has three or four plants: fewer buildings to defend and less space used. Do it before you upgrade factories and extractors, which all draw more power at Tier 2. Because so much of the grid then depends on one building, keep it deep inside the base and under anti-air cover.
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