[Mavlin]

I'm perusing the various defense choices, and I can't find a conceivable reason to build an Electromagnetic Railgun.

Let's look at the cost analysis on it.
Plasma Turret:
Price: Iron : 200 000 ; Gold : 50 000 ; Crystal : 100 000 ; Hydrogen : 75 000
Fire : 15 000

Electromagnetic RailGun
Iron : 400 000 ; Gold : 500 000 ; Crystal : 2 000 000 ; Hydrogen : 100 000
Fire : 25 000

So for an increase of 66% in fire power:
Gold X10
Crystal X20
Hydrogen x 1.33

So, I'm not sure in what world someone would be so short on hydrogen but have a vast enough abundance of everything else to justify the cost of Electromagnetic Railgun. If someone could enlighten me as to the purpose of this defense that'd be great.

[Melutar]

You can build more firepower faster as the Electromagnetic Railgun has a faster build time for its firepower. I'm able to create more total firepower in 24 hours by building the Railguns than the Turrets. This assumes, however, that I have the amount of resources for 24 straight hours of defense building at those prices.

[Mavlin]

Melutar, on 01 June 2011 - 01:18 AM, said:

You can build more firepower faster as the Electromagnetic Railgun has a faster build time for its firepower. I'm able to create more total firepower in 24 hours by building the Railguns than the Turrets. This assumes, however, that I have the amount of resources for 24 straight hours of defense building at those prices.

But that's my point entirely. For every .7 Electromagnetic Railgun you build you could build 1 Plasma Turret time wise. But you would have simultaneously spent a whopping amount of resources which you could have just as easily put into unlocking Laser Railgun. Which is not only cheaper per firepower in every way compared to its electromagnetic counterpart. It also builds nearly as fast. So in conclusion, there's really no way that electromagnetic railgun is viable.

[Corporal Aston]

You'll happily find that the electromagnetic railgun only costs 200,000 crystal instead of the previous 2,000,000

Is that any better?

[Mavlin]

Corporal Aston, on 01 June 2011 - 12:53 PM, said:

You'll happily find that the electromagnetic railgun only costs 200,000 crystal instead of the previous 2,000,000

Is that any better?

much, thanks.