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And you can get the tank much earlier than the power armor and the combat shotgun with piercing rounds, krux02. Many things stop being useful in the game, the tank is one of them.

kovarex wrote: 3 more programmers

Intriguing... Keep up the great work!

Nova wrote:And you can get the tank much earlier than the power armor and the combat shotgun with piercing rounds, krux02. Many things stop being useful in the game, the tank is one of them.

Tanks and power armour are both blue science, I wouldn't quite call that 'much later'

And the piercing shells for shotgun are purple science.

Yeah, but you only need them against big biters, everything else falls pretty quickly to normal shells.

But the power armor is much more expensive, especially MK 2.

Rahjital wrote:

Nova wrote:And you can get the tank much earlier than the power armor and the combat shotgun with piercing rounds, krux02. Many things stop being useful in the game, the tank is one of them.

Tanks and power armour are both blue science, I wouldn't quite call that 'much later'

Tank is not blue science.

Thanks kovarex, I did think the same thing: "What? Tanks are blue science? Oh, I though they were green...", but didn't want to look it up. ^^

The order simplified order of the military technology:

• submachine gun + basic armor, enough for first waves
• Submachine gun + piercing bullets + heavy armor: Enough to kill small nests
• Tanks: More heavy, can be used to kill bigger nests, and used to run things over.
• Energy suit + advanced weaons (shotgun, rockets etc)
• Energy Suit + swarm of destroyer robots: You can kill anything you look at

Is that a 0.11.7 thing? Because, um...

It's strange, I also thought tank was red and green only but checked it before I posted. Was it changed in a recent version?

It was like that from 11.3, which was the first version I played. I was quite disappointed by it, but then I thought that it was to prevent the Military-2 research becoming obsolete. Which it probably wouldn't happen anyway, considering tank shells need plastic and steel...