Metal Factory

Metal Factory

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METAL FACTORY
BUILDING DESCRIPTION	The Metal Factory (MF) produces the Resource Metal on the Player's Base.
EFFECTS OF UPGRADE	Upgrade to Increases the Rate of Production and the Maximum Capacity it will hold before it must be collected.
REQUIREMENTS	NONE
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Upgrade Progression

Level	Upgrade Cost			Upgrade Time	Command Center	Production Rate	Maximum Capacity	Time To Max Capacity
	Metal	Oil	Thorium
1	0	425	0	5m	1		10,000	1h 32m 35s
2	0	1,000	0	10m	1	7,920 / h	50,000	6h 18m 47s
3	0	2,600	0	30m	2	15,120 / h	80,000	5h 17m 27s
4	0	6,600	0	1h	2	28,800 / h	160,000	5h 33m 20s
5	0	16,600	0	2h	3	43,200 / h	200,000	4h 37m 46s
6	0	42,000	0	3h	3	46,800 / h	400,000	8h 32m 49s
7	0	105,000	0	3h 30m	4	50,400 / h	800,000	15h 32m 22s
8	0	260,000	0	4h	4	61,200 / h	1,500,000	1d 00h 30m
9	0	650,000	0	4h 30m	5	64,800 / h	2,400,000	1d 13h 02m
10	0	1,620,000	0	5h	5	90,000 / h	3,600,000	1d 16h 00m
11	0	8,850,000	0	5h 30m	5	108,000 / h	4,800,000	1d 20h 26m
12	0	16,080,000	0	6h	6	126,000 / h	6,000,000	1d 23h 36m
13	0	23,310,000	0	6h		144,000 / h	7,200,000	2d 1h 59m
14	0	30,540,000	0	6h		162,000 / h	8,400,000	2d 3h 51m
15	0	45,000,000	0	6h		180,000 / h	9,600,000	2d 5h 20m
16	0	59,460,000	0	12h		198,000 / h	9,600,000	2d 0h 29m
17	0	73,920,000	0	1d		216,000 / h	9,600,000	1d 20h 26m
18	0	88,380,000	0	1d 12h		234,000 / h	9,600,000	1d 17h 01m
19	0	102,840,000	0	2d		252,000 / h	9,600,000	1d 14h 05m
20	0	117,300,000	0	2d 12h		270,000 / h	9,600,000	1d 11h 33m
Total	0	568,384,225	0	9d 17h 15m

Construction Limits

Metal Factory Construction Limits Per Command Center Level
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	Level 8
No. of Metal Factories	1	2	3	4	5	5	5	5

Upgrade Experience (XP)

Experience Points Awarded per Upgrade Level  ( T )
Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	Level 8	Level 9	Level 10
135	157	408	1,055	2,635	9,065	15,870	39,020	96,040	278,840
Level 11	Level 12	Level 13	Level 14	Level 15	Level 16	Level 17	Level 18	Level 19	Level 20
334,800	2,180,800	3,726,800	5,272,800	6,818,800	9,810,800	11,913,600	14,816,400	17,719,200	20,622,000
Total Experience Points = 93,659,225 xp
For More information on this see Experience Points.

States of Repair

NORMAL	DAMAGED	DESTROYED
100% to 50% Health	49% to 1% Health	0% Health
TOTAL REPAIR TIME :  30 sec

Related Special Ops

RELATED SPECIAL OPs
NAME	ICON	CLASS	LEVEL	DESCRIPTION	BENEFIT LENGTH	EXTEND COST
18 Wheeler		Tactical	Common	Increased resource generation at Deposits and Producers by 20%	1d	50,000
Deuce and a Half		Tactical	Uncommon	Increased resource generation at Deposits and Producers by 40%	1d	100,000
Dragonfly		Tactical	Rare	Increased resource generation at Deposits and Producers by 60%	1d	500,000
Jumbo Jet		Tactical	Rare	Increased resource generation at Deposits and Producers by 100%	1d	500,000
More Information and a the Full List of Ops available here: Special Ops

Related Missions

STANDARD MISSION
MISSION	ICON	MISSION DESCRIPTION	COMPLETION AWARDS		IMAGES
			METAL	OIL	Pre	Post
Great Gatherer		Collect Metal and Oil	2,000	2,000	X	X
Resource Renaissance		Build another Metal Factory and Oil Pump	2,000	2,000	X	X
Pump It Up		Upgrade your Metal and Oil Producers to Level 2	3,000	3,000	X	X
Resource Respect		Upgrade your Metal and Oil Producers to Level 3	5,000	5,000	X	X
Some Missions May Not Be Available Until The Completion Of Others.

Update History

Listed in Reverse Chronological Order -- Click [ Expand ] to View Earliest Updates

• The Metal Factory removed All Power Usage for all Levels in the Game Update of Apr 18, 2018.
• The Metal Factory reduced its Upgrade Times for all levels in the Game Update of Dec 22, 2016.
• The Metal Factory reduced its overall Upgrade Time in the Game Update of Nov 16, 2016.
• The Metal Factory removed all Thorium Costs from all Upgrades in the Game Update of Nov 16, 2016.
• The Metal Factory gained the ability to be upgraded to Level 20 in the Game Update of Aug 10, 2016.
• The Metal Factory improved payouts for Levels 11+ in the Game Update of Dec 23, 2015 .
• The Metal Factory gained the ability to be upgraded to Level 15 in the Game Update of May 29, 2014.
• The Metal Factory increased its Maximum Capacity in the Game Update of Mar 05, 2014.
• The Metal Factory was introduced with the Official Public Beta release of WC on Sept 08, 2011.

• No Further Updates.

Additional Facts

• To collect a single MF Left Click it and then select the yellow "Collect ##,###" Button.
• All MF's & Oil Pumps may be collected simultaneously by Left Clicking anyone of the them and selecting "Collect All".
• The MF does not have to be full to be collected.
• Once the MF has reached Full Capacity it ceases production until the player physically empties or "Collects" the stored Metal.
  • Reaching full capacity is signified by the halting of the building animation and the displaying of a large red exclamation mark above the factory.
• Metal must be "Collected" or moved to the Metal Storage building in order to be utilized or "spent" by the player.
  • If there is insufficient room in the storage to hold all the currently produced metal only a partial portion will be transferred leaving the remaining amount in the MF.
• The player receives XP for the all metal produced by the MF at the time it is collected.
  • The XP amount is calculated as follows : 1 xp per every 50 metal collected.

Trivia

• Metal is one of two Primary Resources use in the Research, Production and Repairs of all Units, Buildings, and Defense Turrets in War Commander.
  • The second Primary being Oil produced in the Oil Pumps.
• As the need for Metal rises the amount produced by the Metal Factory becomes supplemental to more lucrative sources such as :
  • Resource Looting from Enemy Player Bases
  • Resource Looting from Rogue Faction Bases
  • Resource Extracting from Metal Deposits
• All stored Metal is Looted when a Metal Factory is fully destroyed by a Enemy Player.
  • If the Metal Factory is destroyed by a Rogue Faction NO Metal is lost.
• The maximum amount of Metal a single Metal Factory can store is 9,600,000.
  • Bringing the maximum amount of stored Metal within all 5 Metal Factories to 48,000,000
• The Metal Factory, like the Oil Pump are usually considered low priority and placed outside the main defenses of a Player Base.
• The Metal Factory has a Structure Footprint of 3.0 x 3.0.
• Building Pixel Sheet Code : 1

Quotes

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“	MASTER OF METAL - Outstanding work, Commander. Your Level 10 Metal Factory is now fully operational. Isn't the smell of fiery metal sweet?	”
	— Level 10 Message [src]

“	TITLE - Level Message.	”
	— Level ? Message

Related Pages

Metal Storage Oil Pump

Resources

External Links

• Kixeye Forum : Increased Storage! ( Official ) - Veteran Level 5 Update Notes.
• Kixeye Forum ( 12/22/16 ) - WrongThinker Thinks #09 - Building Upgrade Times: Revisited ( Official )
• Wikipedia - Metal - Metal In Real Life

Gallery

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Ready to Collect

Structure Footprint
3.0 x 3.0

Gallery - Historical

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Levels 11 - 15 Added
Game Update: May 29, 2014

Levels 16 - 20 Added
Game Update: Aug 10, 2016