BUG!

for some reason, GymMember had the following problems:

right at start:
his factory plappoed, but did not build.
his com started other new building at 0% but did not advance.
his factory queued units but did not build them (stopped at 0%).

he left the game and i took his stuff.
at the factory, i was able to queue units, but no chqange in building. the waypoint of the factory had a strange "lift me up" symbol (sandclock).

the whole stuff was useless.

plz have a look, this is serious.

well, good to know about the wait thing. had no clue -.-

managing resources with wait commands was the way to go. Kinda muss that, though i still find myself doing it out of habit from time to time.

That's what build priorities are for. It does all of those things you just described.

Wait doesn't do any of those things. A factory, even at low priority, will use all resources available to it.

If you have positive E income but not enough to cloak a skuttle indefinitely, you can uncloak it for a while and then recloak and jump once you're ready to use it. If you have a low priority factory it'll slow down your stockpiling of energy and then drain it extra-quickly until you have 0 and the skuttle decloaks. Waiting factories don't do that.

If you're urgently trying to build an LLT or radar or something with a constructor and you have very bad economy, it may be fastest to reclaim some wrecks then switch back to building. A low-priority factory will suck up all the reclaim. Waiting factories don't do that.