Morphing a Geothermal Generator into an Advanced Geothermal is not tracked by overrive payback ROI

[SteelBlueZK]

Assuming the endgame graphs and overdrive ROI tracker are accurate,
In this replay I build some minor energy buildings, a geothermal, and morph into an Advanced Geothermal.

Expected behavior:
When the geothermal completes the morph, the ROI tracker connected to the geothermal unit adds an additional value correlated to the 1000 metal value spent on the morph, to be paid back over time.

Observed behavior:
Upon morph completion, the system does not recognize the metal investment, and additional payback on investment does not occur.

Example replay:
In this replay I build some minor energy buildings, a geothermal, and morph into an Advanced Geothermal with ignoble AI teammates. I morph the geothermal and let the game run a while. ROI tracker widget does not record the investment via morph, and neither do the endgame graphs (Metal Overdrive chart reports about a 200 metal lead for my recoil-team over the recoil-alliance, no spike occurs around the geo morph completion.)

https://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/2449820

[sprunk]

Adv Geo is probably the only generator that introduces a real risk to adjacent players (all others tend to be far in the back and/or not really explode) so maybe it's actually good design not to incentivize morphing selfishly. (Though it would be hindsight since really it's because it's just annoying to implement)

[GoogleFrog]

I think I would put a lower ROI on geo and adv geo since they are limited and very efficient. In theory there is a world where people fight internally over geos like they used to fight over mexes.

[sprunk]

On some maps, e.g. fields of isis¹, they already fight just to prevent noobs from exploding the whole base. A fix can only mean the ROI on adv geo itself goes higher since it's already 0. As a whole it can still end up having a lower total ROI with a non-zero value on adv geo itself if the basic geo is also reduced, but if geo is to be special then I like the idea of doing it via frontloading the ROI to the basic geo.

Footnotes

1. arguably that's a map issue, in which case i'm happy to leave adv geo alone and unfeature ↩