AI War Beta 5.052-5.057 "From The Shadows" Released!

[keith.lamothe]

Question:
I queue modules on champion and it blinks red.. what I'm missing?

A friendly engineer in range with time on its hands

[orzelek]

Question:
I queue modules on champion and it blinks red.. what I'm missing?

A friendly engineer in range with time on its hands

Ok got it.
It seems that engies on FRD likes docks much more than building of the modules.

[keith.lamothe]

Ok got it.
It seems that engies on FRD likes docks much more than building of the modules.

Perhaps a good step would be adding an alert to the alert box when a champion is trying to build a module but lacks engineer assistance.

Most of the new stuff uses existing UI that folks won't need additional prompting on, but there are a few new wrinkles.  Some I've addressed specifically, some I probably need to

[TechSY730]

Question:
I queue modules on champion and it blinks red.. what I'm missing?

A friendly engineer in range with time on its hands

So champions have a zero self construction rate?
Interesting, first builder that cannot make progress on what it is building on its own.

[Lancefighter]

CHAMPIONS

RELEASING CHAMPIONS?!!

Is it..

AI WAR: DOTA TIME?

[Eternaly_Lost]

Time to kick up a 9/9 4 homeworld game with champion, and see how well it does when the Exos come a knocking.

Maybe I throw on Hybrids and see how well the champion does with them.

[keith.lamothe]

So champions have a zero self construction rate?

No, they have the default rate of 1, but they don't have any metal or crystal

CHAMPIONS

RELEASING CHAMPIONS?!!

Is it..

AI WAR: DOTA TIME?

Many times as I was adding these, I thought "Lancefighter is going to love this"   We'll see if I'm right.

[Aklyon]

CHAMPIONS

RELEASING CHAMPIONS?!!

Is it..

AI WAR: DOTA TIME?

As much as I don't care for dota-games, that was still pretty funny to me, Lancefighter.

[Martyn van Buren]

By the way are there any hostile champions?

[TechSY730]

By the way are there any hostile champions?

No, but there was discussion about an AI version of champions at http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,11266.0.html. Strangely enough, that was before this expansion's details were released.

[keith.lamothe]

By the way are there any hostile champions?

Not as such, but the thought has occurred to me   In general that'd be a lot of AI to get working right, and it would mess with the offroad scenarios to no end.

[TechSY730]

By the way are there any hostile champions?

Not as such, but the thought has occurred to me   In general that'd be a lot of AI to get working right, and it would mess with the offroad scenarios to no end.

It might make an interesting tie in to the hybrids logic, sort of like an new advanced advanced hybrids plot.

But yea, that might be out of scope for now.

[Faulty Logic]

How do you switch UI from champion back to everything else?

[keith.lamothe]

How do you switch UI from champion back to everything else?

One of two ways:
1) Click the STATS button, and on that window click the "switch to UI" button next to the desired player.
2)

** Switch Back To Local Player UI.
*** Defaults to Ctrl+L.
*** If you've switched to the UI of another player (through the switch-to-UI buttons in the Stats window or by viewing the modules of another player's ship) this keybind will switch you back to the UI of the player slot in which you actually connected to the game.

[Draco18s]

So champions have a zero self construction rate?

No, they have the default rate of 1, but they don't have any metal or crystal
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You could give them a 1/1 income rate.  It'd be so small as to be insignificant, but it would allow them to build their own stuff.