0/5 Stars on time?

[:1]Hey guys, I've been playing Supcom2 for about a week now and I'm mostly through the campaign (two more missions to go). It seems that lately with campaign missions I've been getting really low end of mission rank for time. It seems like its never above 2 stars or so. Last mission, I took around 45 minutes to complete it and got a 0/5, and the mission before that I took around 50 minutes and got 1/5.
I just don't get it. Am I doing something wrong or something? Usually it takes ma a while to build up a force or figure out what exactly I need to tech up to to win. It bothers me a little, but then again, I am victorious.
Eh...doesn't really matter, but was wondering if anyone else had this happen to them. And if so is it just me and my play style or what?
Btw, the game is awesome and I absolutely love it!|||I am not really sure why your time scores are that low but you can finish the last mission in 20 to 25 minutes by rushing mass conversion and then soul rippers. You can quickly snipe all of the targets with no more than five of them. You would want an energy income of at least 800 to support this by the time you win.
To put things in perspective the earliest you can get minor experimentals is at 6.30. You can have mass conversion up by about 9 minutes and experimental structures up by 11 minutes if you rush them exclusively. On most missions you will have to defend yourself against attacks so these times will be delayed. Use point defence and adaptors on the last to hold off the enemy until you have better tech. Magnetrons make the mission much easier but will delay you. Each successive research point accrues at a slower rate so you will need to build research stations throughout.
It is possible to have an energy income of around 200 when you get mass conversion if you continually build pgens until that time. Through the early part of the mission you will find yourself barely hanging on. It is necessary to reclaim as many wrecks as possible until that point. Once you have an income of more than 400 energy you will be able to support multiple experimental factories without having to pause. Keep building pgens and factories until you run out of space or population room.
This approach also works in no rush games and 4v4s at times but will lose 1v1s.|||ow please,
don't tell him it works in 4v4's. :-/
always makes me sad if I'm competing in another 3v4 because someone's teching MC and not doing anything for 20 minutes.|||Maybe you are right
It does get murdered by megalith and fatboy rushes. In any case a reasonable player should be doing more than just teching to mc.|||Thanks for the advice. Got 5/5 on the last mission. In fact, I got all five stars...
Then I played 2v2...and sucked. Hrmmm...|||Those strats don't work nearly as well in 2v2.|||timeaisis|||Competetive play = spam tanks
Campaighn play = acu rush! XD|||Lol. I know strats are COMPLETELY different against humans. I was just commenting on how much I sucked at multiplayer comparatively.|||timeaisis