SPOILER ALERT! - Intruder Research Cost

[rancor9999]

Instantly is a relative term, doesn't it take about 7 days to actually complete once you have everything made finally?
Thanks for the heads up, and thanks for doing the number crunching and posting it for all of us. Now, lets see how long it takes to get all that stuff together.

[HenryIII]

Acording to the Intruder reasearch page

Intruder

Emerging from the most surreal depths of your wicked spirit, this monstrosity – once finished – will be the most powerful weapon in your arsenal. With no will of its own but enough firepower to destroy entire armies and virtually impenetrable armor, it will pursue your goals to fulfillment.

Base values 420 ATK / 850 DEF / 700 HP

Cost: 150.000 Gold, 1500 Weapons-grade steel, 50 Gears, 25 Batteries,
250 Ball bearing, 10 Hydraulic pump, 35 Chip, 1 Motor, 1 AI system

Duration: 168 Hours

This is about 7 days to build the Intruder after you have all the gear if you need to build the Large Engineer there is another 10 days (to get your AI (I dont know how long it takes to build an AI system) so 17 days

[Redles]

I thought it was built instantly when you had all the materials, guess not.

I don't remember the 168 hours....oh, well.

[Animalux]

10 days to get an AI? What? xD Probably just a few hours if you put enough of your imps working on it.

The cost is nothing hurtful, just the pain to gather all materials, expand your buildings etc.

[rancor9999]

I was talking with Henry III this morning, he is about the same place I am in the story. He was referring to the fact that it takes 10 days, once you have everything on hand, just to upgrade the engineer from a medium to a large. Then if you have thought and planned everything out right to start researching the Intruder, it is another 7 days on top of that. Instantly

[HenryIII]

Dito what Ranco9999 said

[Animalux]

That's true, but if you have done all the research and upgrades before you reach the quest, the wait feels less.
For that matter been trying to gather gold and materials from day 1 for the Intruder.

Hopefully, what seemed really far away and impossible, seems quite near now.

Did a little cost analysis myself and according to it, all production cost etc, without the building and their upgrade cost, result to be over 300k. Plus 150k for the Intruder research, it comes all up to around 500k.
Just all the ore you have to produce which is quite a bit costy to do so.