Achievement Wording

[RCIX]

I just noticed this wording on the First Difficulty 10 Loss achievement:

Lose to the AI on difficulty level 10 or up.

Do I even want to know what that would look like?

[Coppermantis]

http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,9947.0.html

Psh, only diff 10.999? Why not diff 12? Or diff 20? But why stop there, why not diff 100? I've made a few more crazy saves, and yes, they all actually work. On the diff 20 and 100 ones, there are no wave warnings, I'm assuming the math for these high diffs just makes the timer 0.

EDIT: I tried diff 11 too and it doesn't crash but just throws a bunch of unhandled errors.

 

[LaughingThesaurus]

The game should award you the achievement if you use a hacked save file and lose.

[TechSY730]

http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,9947.0.html

Psh, only diff 10.999? Why not diff 12? Or diff 20? But why stop there, why not diff 100? I've made a few more crazy saves, and yes, they all actually work. On the diff 20 and 100 ones, there are no wave warnings, I'm assuming the math for these high diffs just makes the timer 0.

EDIT: I tried diff 11 too and it doesn't crash but just throws a bunch of unhandled errors.

 

In a later thread, I tried bumping up the difficulty to 12.999something, as the wave size calculation has 13 - AIDiff in the denominator.
First wave was 10000+ ships...

[keith.lamothe]

In a later thread, I tried bumping up the difficulty to 12.999something, as the wave size calculation has 13 - AIDiff in the denominator.
First wave was 10000+ ships...

Yea, when the denominator approaches 0 the AI rips you a new asymptote.


(sorry, couldn't resist)

[doctorfrog]

Also, I learned that freshly installing and running an AI War game gets you two energy collection achievements right away. Yay, you started a game and didn't blow up your energy collector in the first three seconds!

[Draco18s]

Also, I learned that freshly installing and running an AI War game gets you two energy collection achievements right away. Yay, you started a game and didn't blow up your energy collector in the first three seconds!

2 million surplus is also quite achievable these days.  I've been at 1.3M not that long ago.
(Edit: Single homeworld)

[LaughingThesaurus]

Also, I learned that freshly installing and running an AI War game gets you two energy collection achievements right away. Yay, you started a game and didn't blow up your energy collector in the first three seconds!

I was wondering about that. I guess it was a byproduct of an older energy system? I always end up getting the energy achievements on any given install. Can't avoid them.

[Hearteater]

Start a 16HW game, you have almost a 40 million energy surplus.

[Draco18s]

Also, I learned that freshly installing and running an AI War game gets you two energy collection achievements right away. Yay, you started a game and didn't blow up your energy collector in the first three seconds!

I was wondering about that. I guess it was a byproduct of an older energy system? I always end up getting the energy achievements on any given install. Can't avoid them.

Yep.

[Cinth]

In a later thread, I tried bumping up the difficulty to 12.999something, as the wave size calculation has 13 - AIDiff in the denominator.
First wave was 10000+ ships...

Yea, when the denominator approaches 0 the AI rips you a new asymptote.


(sorry, couldn't resist)

Yeah... let's not cross that line. 

[LaughingThesaurus]

Thank goodness I don't have to feel like I have terrible macro then.

[Draco18s]

In a later thread, I tried bumping up the difficulty to 12.999something, as the wave size calculation has 13 - AIDiff in the denominator.
First wave was 10000+ ships...

Yea, when the denominator approaches 0 the AI rips you a new asymptote.


(sorry, couldn't resist)

Yeah... let's not cross that line. 

I see what you did there.

[Faulty Logic]

The only forum (empirically) where implied mathematics-related jokes are not only understood, but appreciated.

[Cinth]