How to Manage Resources in Supreme Commander
In Supreme Commander, as in any real time strategy game, resource management can spell the difference between victory and defeat. If you don't manage your resource, you can quickly fall behind in the arms race, and easily have your defenses fail on you.
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Instructions
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Build a Mass Collector, then a Power Generator as soon as the battle starts. Build them with the Armored Command Unit. Most maps start you near a cluster of Mass points, so repeat this for each Mass point, alternating between building a Collector and Generator for each one.
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Build a building that can make Engineers.
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Take the Engineers and expand out to the other Mass points that are near you. At this point, your ACU should probably be working on preliminary defenses and other important buildings.
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Take another set of Engineers and build Power Generators. Make sure you can keep generating energy to keep up with your build process.
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Begin upgrading the Mass Collectors to Tech 2 after you build a sufficient Tech 1 Defense and have a surplus of resources.
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Repeat the process for Tech 2, building Tech 2 Power Generators and upgrading your defenses along the way, until you are ready for Tech 3.
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Upgrade your Mass Collectors to Tech 3 and begin building Tech 3 Generators.
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Tips & Warnings
You can build Engineers (and eventually Sub Commanders) and set them to assist other build units to hasten the build process.
Work yourself around the map in groups. Never leave resources exposed and make sure they are sufficiently defended against attack.
Don't jump from Tech 1 to Tech 3 all at once. You'll be stuck in the red for a while during the large jump it takes to upgrade.
Don't over stretch yourself. If you build outside of your ability to keep up, you'll end up wasting more time and resources.
