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=== Assistant: Alright, now they’ve got serious regen 😅 ===
Alright, now they’ve got serious regen 😅

You said:

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So now:
* Every swarm unit regenerates: - +100 HP/sec to the force field - +100 HP/sec to the body
* At the same time, continuously, as long as they’re alive.

We’re still in the insane setup where each unit has roughly:
* Shield HP: 100,000
* Body HP: 1,000,000–100,000,000 (depending on tier)
* Swarm size: ~10²⁰ units
* Plus: - Dodge - Combine - Devour - Fast mutation - Hive mind

And you have a god-tier fortress with:
* 20× 1000 mm kinetic guns (0.01c, double fire rate)
* 20× atomizers
* 10× lasers
* 100× light-speed 1000 mm railguns
* Infinite ammo/durability/power

==== For a basic unit: ====
* Shield: 100,000 HP, regen +100/sec
* Body: 1,000,000 HP, regen +100/sec

If not being shot at:
* Shield refills from 0 → full in: - 100,000 / 100 = 1,000 seconds ≈ 16–17 minutes
* Body refills from 0 → full in: - 1,000,000 / 100 = 10,000 seconds ≈ ~2.8 hours

Compared to 10 HP/sec, this is 10× faster regen.

Still tiny compared to your focused fire, but now:
* Over minutes, partial damage really does disappear.
* Any unit that gets away and rests for a while becomes dangerous again.

For big tanks:
* 10,000,000 HP / 100 = 100,000 seconds (~27.8 hours)
* 100,000,000 HP / 100 = 1,000,000 seconds (~11.6 days)

So they don’t pop back instantly, but they do climb back up if they can stay out of trouble.

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At 10 HP/sec:
* Wounded units needed many hours to recover;
* Regen mostly mattered over very long times.

At 100 HP/sec:
* Shields refill in tens of minutes, not hours.
* Body damage noticeably heals over the course of a battle.

That means the swarm can:
* Rotate wounded units out of the front,
* Let them regen behind tank walls or in safer areas,
* Then send them back later in much better condition.

So instead of a one-way attrition on their side, you get:

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===== Before, if you hammered a direction and then shifted focus: =====
* That sector would stay damaged for a while.
* You could “soften it up” and then exploit later.

Now:
* If you don’t keep ongoing pressure,
* Their shield + body regen will: - Patch up a lot of the shallow and mid-level damage, - Make that front look fresh again after a while.

So strategically:
* You lose the ability to say “we bled them here earlier, this side is still weak.”
* You must treat every front as potentially refreshed if you haven’t kept it under fire.

===== Devour already gives: =====
* Big instant heals,
* Growth,
* Multiplication.

Regen adds:
* Constant “background healing” on everyone.

So now:
* Devour deals with big chunks of missing HP,
* Regen smooths out the rest over time.

That means any unit that escapes your kill-zone:
* Gets devour if possible,
* Gets passive regen regardless,
* And becomes much harder to permanently wear down unless you atomize it.

==== You still massively out-damage 100 HP/sec on any target you’re actively shooting: ====
* Railguns: massively overkill anything they touch.
* Big shells: eat HP in giant bites.
* Atomizers: erase things completely once shields are down.
* Lasers: can keep constant pressure on smaller groups.

So in direct fire:
* Regen might as well be 0.
* Nothing you commit to dies “slow”; you’re still deleting things.

But at the strategic, whole-war scale:
# “Half-finished kills” matter less - If units slip out of your sights with 30–50% HP missing, - Over time, they move back toward full.
# You can’t count on cumulative chip damage - Only fully-atomized or fully-blasted targets are permanently gone. - Lightly damaged survivors are basically temporary progress unless you follow through.
# Long war favors adjustment + regen - You still have infinite ammo, so time is okay for you… - But they have: - Fast mutation, and now - Significant passive regen across the entire swarm. - So over long timescales: - They get smarter, - They heal up between pushes, - They maintain a frighteningly high average health.

==== - In a straight-up focused fight: You still vaporize anything in your crosshairs. Regen doesn’t save them mid-volley. ====
* In the grand, multi-front war: Faster regen: - Makes front-line damage less permanent. - Helps the swarm absorb non-lethal damage and keep coming back. - Increases the importance of: - Atomizing kills, - Maintaining pressure on key sectors, - Not letting them escape with major damage.

So this change doesn’t make them invincible, but it does:

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If you don’t fully kill and atomize, they:
* Mutate,
* Heal,
* Come back smarter.

If you want, next we can:
* Buff your side with things like anti-regen fields (zones where healing doesn’t work),
* Or let regen scale with something (like faster when combined or when near a hive core) and see if that finally lets them outheal even your absurd firepower in specific regions.