Singularity Power Plant
A contained core more than triples the Advanced Plant's output.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 3
- Cost
- 1100 metal
- Build time
- 66 s
- Hit points
- 1800
- Armor
- Structure
- Vision
- 6 tiles
- Footprint
- 2×2 tiles
- Power
- +210
- Weapons
- Unarmed
- ▸Only obtained by upgrading — it cannot be placed directly.
Production and tech
Counters
210 power out of one two-by-two footprint: three and a half times an Advanced Power Plant, and more than ten of the first Power Plant plants. It is upgrade-only, 700 metal and 36 seconds on an Advanced Power Plant, and it is what a Tier-3 base runs on — deep-core mining, advanced factories, radar and a turret line together draw more than a field of small plants can carry.
How to use
Upgrade instead of sprawling. Every plant you do not build is a two-by-two of buildable ground the base gets back, and a grid of three or four singularity cores is far easier to defend than fifteen small ones scattered across the homeland.
That is also the catch: the fewer plants carry the load, the more a single loss costs. Power shortfall does not black the base out, it slows it — production, repairs, turret reloads and mining all run at the power factor — so a base that loses one core keeps fighting at a fraction of its speed, which is worse than it sounds when the attack that killed the plant is still going on. Put the cores at the back, inside the turret ring, and keep one plant of headroom above what the base actually draws.