@ booyah: try using slow motion the whole way, and use relays sparingly. spam basic lasers, plus one or two missiles to deal with motherships and swarms.
it...can be done. 12:35 or something. Half an hour in real life, as I used slow motion and paused a lot. Strangely enough, it was 12:35 A.M. in real life when I finished. I need to get to bed. oh this game is SO much fun!
@mara alas, alas, the old ones lost the knowledge of how to create that particular material in a most unfortunate "accident" shortly after creating the rift totems. An accident engineered by the styglek (spelling?) consortium, as it would turn out.
No, no, the styglek aren't the villains in and of themselves, they just have this nasty habit of building creeper nexi to reestablish contact with the loki.
well, they used to, untill they realized that every time they did so, the acting admiral authorized the use of dark beams, and the loki didn't want humans "ascending" into the same plane+dimension combination.
so the styglek quit building stuff that was immune to nullifiers. Of course, nullifiers are creeper world 2 and beyond.
yes, fra96, you do need to use launchers.
unless, perhaps, you first max out energy production and firerate upgrades, scrap all the tech domes and replace with reactors. then MAYBE you could do it without launchers.
@halo true, placing dirt would not give a humongous tactical advantage (provided we ignore the undecayability of dirt) but it WOULD give a strategic advantage in terms of energy production (placing a reactor on top of dirt).