How to reclaim zoned buildings?

[Liskey]

Humans have zone build points, which, personally, I've found makes human building more fun than alien building.

If someone has built a repeater and two turrets, how can they be removed so that the BPs are available for RC building?  Marking the repeater and rets does not make them disappear (usually; sometimes they inexplicably do disappear), and the BPs are not available around the RC even when they are marked or removed.

[Demolution]

When a repeater is built, you receive build points for 2 buildables. These build points are available for that repeater only, and are not available for any other repeater or the reactor. That's what is meant by zone building. Essentially there is a zone around the repeater and the ractor in which you can build stuff and that zone has buildpoints specefic to it.

Also, when the enemy destroys one of your buildings, it takes time for the build points to return.

[Liskey]

Ahh, I see now.  I was confused by repeater taking 4bp from reactor, which means you can't build a zone if RC is fully built out.  I assumed full 20bp was taken from RC.

[Norfenstein]

Also, when the enemy destroys one of your buildings, it takes time for the build points to return.

Only if those build points came from the reactor, not a repeater. So if your repeater is powering two turrets and they die, you can rebuild them immediately, but if the repeater dies it will take time for its 4 build points to return (since repeaters take build points from the reactor). Likewise with any structure built within the reactor's power zone.

(usually; sometimes they inexplicably do disappear)

Unpowered human structures get instantly deconned instead of marked.

[Demolution]

Also, when the enemy destroys one of your buildings, it takes time for the build points to return.

Only if those build points came from the reactor, not a repeater. So if your repeater is powering two turrets and they die, you can rebuild them immediately, but if the repeater dies it will take time for its 4 build points to return (since repeaters take build points from the reactor). Likewise with any structure built within the reactor's power zone.

Thnx4correction.