How to build cities properly for Mechanicus?

[Дремора Лорд]

Do you need to build similar buildings in one cell or vice versa, do you need to build 1 building of different types and what would be similar in the next cell?

[adozu]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TemplarGR:

Once your 3 cities are in place and you got some loyalty buildings and hubs built in each, you can procede with building the rest of the military buildings and increasing your economy etc.

I have to ask a simple question: assuming normal game speed what turn is this?

[Stardustfire]

not so late as many other races. Mechanicus is broken imba in that department, like so many other departments as well. they get the building research to build there builders earlier and the resources to build the 2 satelite citys are faster gathered than with other races as well.

[adozu]

In what way does mechanicus get there earlier exactly? In their current state their expansion is literally the slowest in the game.

[Wiresky]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย adozu:

In what way does mechanicus get there earlier exactly? In their current state their expansion is literally the slowest in the game.

Fairly safe to assume they are talking about PVE on large maps where you only have to defend a small lacklustre attempt on your city from ai, and where clearing outpost has minimum impact on strategy. If the ai could figure out how to nuke a city on turn 35, then pve players would not be concerned with hubs and loyalty so soon