Factory

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Tech 1 Tech 2 Tech 3 Quantum T1 Factories   Constructs Tech 1 units. Upgradeable. Storage 400 80 Build Rate 20/s Intel (Radius) Vision: 20 Build Costs -1500 ~ -2400 -210 ~ -300 300 Max Health 4200 ~ 4800 Extended Information T1 Land Factories   Constructs Tech 1 land units. Upgradeable. Build Costs -2100 -240 300 Max Health 4800 4200 4400 4600 T1 Air Factories   Constructs Tech 1 air units. Upgradeable. Build Costs -2400 -210 300 Max Health 4800 4200 4400 4600 T1 Naval Factories   Constructs Tech 1 naval units. Upgradeable. Build Costs -1500 -300 300 Max Health 4800 4200 4400 4600 T2 Factories   Constructs Tech 2 units. Upgradeable. Storage 800 160 Build Rate 40/s Intel (Radius) Vision: 20 Build Costs -5400 ~ -11700 -630 ~ -1170 1600 ~ 1800 Max Health Naval Factory 8200 ~ 9000 15000 ~ 18000 Extended Information T2 Land Factories   Constructs Tech 2 land units. Upgradeable. Build Costs -7200 -800 1600 Max Health 9000 7800 8200 8200 T2 Air Factories   Constructs Tech 2 air units. Upgradeable. Build Costs -11700 -630 1800 Max Health 9000 7800 8200 8600 T2 Naval Factories   Constructs Tech 2 naval units. Upgradeable. Build Costs -5400 -1170 1800 Max Health 18000 15000 16000 17000 T3 Factories   Constructs Tech 3 units. Highest tech level available. Storage 1600 320 Build Rate 60/s Intel (Radius) Vision: 20 Build Costs -23400 ~ -46200 -2520 ~ -5400 7200 ~ 8400 Max Health Naval Factory 19000~ 22000 34000~ 40000 Extended Information T3 Land Factories   Constructs Tech 3 land units. Highest tech level available. Build Costs -28350 -3150 8400 Max Health 22000 19000 20000 21000 T3 Air Factories   Constructs Tech 3 air units. Highest tech level available. Build Costs -46200 -2520 8400 Max Health 22000 19000 20000 21000 T3 Naval Factories   Constructs Tech 3 naval units. Highest tech level available. Build Costs -23400 -5400 7200 Max Health 40000 34000 37500 38000 T3 Quantum Gateways   Summons Support Commander(s). Build Costs -30000 -3000 3000 Build Rate 120/s Max Health 10000 Intel (Radius) Vision: 20

A factory is a unit capable of building mobile units.

Each faction has three types of normal factories, land, air and naval. Quantum gateways also function like factories. There are also several other experimental factories.

Contents 1 Factories 1.1 Normal factories 1.2 Quantum gateways 1.3 Build speeds 2 Factional differences 3 Experimental factories 4 Constructable units 5 See Also

[edit] Factories

[edit] Normal factories

Land, air and naval factories are constructed by engineers, ACUs or SCUs. They always start out as Tech 1 factories, and are capable of building all Tech 1 mobile units of their type (land, air or naval). They can also upgrade to Tech 2.

Once upgraded to Tech 2 a factory can build all Tech 1 or Tech 2 mobile units of their type, or an upgrade to Tech 3. Similarly, Tech 3 factories can build Tech 1, 2 and 3 units of their type. Factories cannot build experimental units

Upgrading a factory changes it's physical appearance. It usually becomes bigger, acquires more health, and an extra build arm.

Higher Tech factories build more quickly than lower Tech factories, and they use resources at a correspondingly higher rate. Tech 2 factories build twice as fast as Tech 1 factories, and Tech 3 factories, three times as fast.

[edit] Quantum gateways

Quantum gateways, though not called factories, function similarly. They consume resources to construct SCUs which construct at Tech 3. They don't have any upgrades, and they can't construct any other units, but otherwise all commands that work with factories also work with quantum gateways. A lot of time and resources are required to build SCU's, however it is usually worth it in the long run if you can get your economy rolling and the Quantum Gateway assisted by T3 engineers and mass producing SCU's.

[edit] Build speeds

All factories build 4 times faster than an engineer of the corresponding tech level. This means it takes no more than 4 engineers (of the corresponding tech) to double a factory's build rate. Because of this, it is much more time and resource efficient to assist a factory, rather than build a new one. The only time this is not true, is once there are too many engineers on the same factory, creating congestion.

The Quantum Gateway has a build rate equal to 2 of the sACUs it produces, or 8 T3 engineers. It is strongly advised that you assist a Gateway, as sACUs otherwise gate in very slowly; the engineers are definitely a better choice as the sACUs are definitely better off being put to a more constructive purpose than merely assisting the Gateway in deploying more.

[edit] Factional differences

Factories of all 4 factions cost the same, build a the same speed and are overall equal. Their Hp differ slightly. The two only notable differences are the naval factory's build layout: While all other faction's naval factories build on the left, the Seraphim naval factory builds on the right. Also, when creating an engineer from an air factory, the factory is stalled while it lowers the unit to ground level.

[edit] Experimental factories

The experimental units, the Fatboy, the Tempest, the Atlantis, the CZAR and to some degree, the Megalith are able to function as factories, as well as act as powerful fighting units. Except for the Megalith, all of these units must be stationary in order to construct units. During the construction, their weapons are also disabled (the Megalith is again an exception to this rule). The Tempest and the Fatboy must also both be surfaced or on land.

[edit] Constructable units

Factories can construct almost each and every unit in this game. The only exceptions are ACUs, experimental units and the UEF T1 Engineering Drones. Except for sACUs, each unit can be built by the corresponding factory type (Land Factory builds land units), provided that factory is at least of the required tech level (a tech 2 factory can build tech 2 units as well as tech 1, but not tech 3).

For a full list of units, see the complete unit list.

Some other units can also construct units these include carriers, and some factory-type experimental units. The units these can construct are on that unit's page.

[edit] See Also

For a list of all factories, see the factories category.