A Warning on Advanced Hybrids

[Flying_Bread]

Oh and as an aside, how much was the cost of exo wave hunter killers increased? in a 17 hour long FS game with 8 cities, I did not see a single one. All the exos were siege towers ect, mostly mk 5 at the end. Even poking the homeworld yielded a single mothership with a  modest escort. Just wondering as it's not terribly difficult for 100+ spire ships to wreck basic exo's. Even the mothership wasn't too much of an issue, though it still wrecked half my fleet.

[keith.lamothe]

Oh and as an aside, how much was the cost of exo wave hunter killers increased? in a 17 hour long FS game with 8 cities, I did not see a single one. All the exos were siege towers ect, mostly mk 5 at the end. Even poking the homeworld yielded a single mothership with a  modest escort. Just wondering as it's not terribly difficult for 100+ spire ships to wreck basic exo's. Even the mothership wasn't too much of an issue, though it still wrecked half my fleet.

Did you see golems?  FS exos don't have the "randomly choose to try for a big lead ship" behavior that the other exo types can have, so no HKs isn't a big surprise.

[Flying_Bread]

Nope. No golems at all. Largest ship was a core starship and/or mk 5 implosions and siege towers. I like no H/K's spawning 4 hours in, but hitting very late game, the exos were very tame, even when my spire were off galavanting in ai core space

[keith.lamothe]

Hrm, that doesn't sound right at all.  Save?

[TechSY730]

On the other hand, getting that achievement is "slightly" easier now....easy being a relative term

Wait, it counts towards the achievement? Interesting.

[Buttons840]

Um, OK then. I think I figured out what the Dyson is being converted into. 

I will honor Keith's wishes (read, not spoil his fun) and not spoil it for you guys, but I will say it involves what I previously thought to be a hilarious gimmick.

BTW, the chat message does spawn, but thanks to the fact that the "recent chat messages" on the main game screen box does not auto-scroll to the bottom, it's easy to miss.

Just tell us, are they building Chuck Norris or Rick Astley?

[keith.lamothe]

Just tell us, are they building Chuck Norris or Rick Astley?

Both.  Chunk Norris then wipes the floor with Rick Astley.

[TechSY730]

Just tell us, are they building Chuck Norris or Rick Astley?

Both.  Chunk Norris then wipes the floor with Rick Astley.

More like it starts with Chuck Norris, and then the hybrids start the Rick Astley.

[keith.lamothe]

Just tell us, are they building Chuck Norris or Rick Astley?

Both.  Chunk Norris then wipes the floor with Rick Astley.

More like it starts with Chuck Norris, and then the hybrids start the Rick Astley.

If they were to break into song, it would probably be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrK0rZj6pes , as it goes with the origin of their chat line

[dotjd]

I approve of the hybrid's new tricks.  The best part is how the AI still blames you when they pull it off.

[keith.lamothe]

I approve of the hybrid's new tricks.  The best part is how the AI still blames you when they pull it off.

I initially thought that aspect was undesirable, then I realized it was funny

[Orelius]

Ugh.  I want to know what's going on but I'm going to have to play through a game with advanced hybrids on to find out.  I'm even more curious now, but what I'm hearing does not sound at all pretty.

[TechSY730]

Ugh.  I want to know what's going on but I'm going to have to play through a game with advanced hybrids on to find out.  I'm even more curious now, but what I'm hearing does not sound at all pretty.

If you just want to see the behavior, and don't care about everything else, feel free to use that "ready to stall" save I posted earlier.

It takes about 7-8 game hours for the plot to complete if you let if go uninterrupted, but with setting the performance profile to the lowest setting and the speed to +10, you can get to the final stage in like 1-3 hours.