Shocker is designed to negate base defense damage and maximize attacker's damage. If you design your base so that it can tank damage (gate, core/black ice with guardian shields) then shocker ends up being useless. Shocker is a hard counter to black ice (in terms of stopping black ice from launching ...
I guess install time and firewall regen makes a big difference :S Have finally got round to pushing forward that update in my calculator. Calculator now takes Blasters, Shurikens, Beams, Battering Rams, Regen and Blaster Stun into account :) http://forum.tricksterarts.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=840 Go...
This is my calculation of Blaster vs Code Gate . Numbers are from the wiki . The results are in terms of the number of seconds needed to take down the Code Gate given only a single Blaster. Assumed no regeneration for simplicity, so actual time may be higher. Results aren't rounded to the 3.5 secon...
Compiling two blasters is still faster and cheaper than one ram (unless your blaster out levels your ram by a lot) so it's worth it. Until you have like ram15+, you would probably use double ram on gate19+ for any base that's not a complete walk in the park. Two rams would be equivalent to four blas...
I just finally tested my blaster18 fresh from the evolver and double blaster is actually viable against a gate19-21. It will for sure take longer than double ram so if you are short on time then you're kinda screwed using double blaster. However, that only applies to double blaster. If you can go on...
I'm a friend of muscles and I just tested his base for him twice. Reached the end of his base both times. I'm lower level than muscles too. So I don't think there's really an excuse for someone higher level than muscles to not be able to retrace. It's kinda unfair how you work hard at building a sol...