hmm maybe I need to add regular cons to my OD table...

Most efficient con based metal is rector/convict I think, providing .0011 m/s / m.
Compared to the .0014 m/s / m of caretakers. This makes them about 22% less efficient than caretakers.

I've been massing the wrong unit in teamgames. Sprung has enlightened us!

Oh, you won that. GJ Fealthas

Convicts/Conjurers lose to weavers and conches, but have better mob utility if you feel like risking your ecofarm to instabuild porc.

In practice, the exponential nature of innate-income swarms makes caretakers uncontested even despite risk of chainsplosion and requiring space.

Correction: uncontested in practice compared to other innate income eco spams, e.g. on no-metal maps.

Nanoframe death does not allow resurrection and in most cases forces halved metal worth of the wreck.