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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2012, 09:41:18 pm »
Update: 5.075 hotfix is out to fix an array-index-out-of-bounds error in what I did to the AI reinforcements logic.  Also made the focused-reinforcements logic apply to initial ship seeding, which should make at least one player happy.
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2012, 10:33:30 pm »
Quote from: keith.lamothe on August 30, 2012, 09:41:18 pm
Update: 5.075 hotfix is out to fix an array-index-out-of-bounds error in what I did to the AI reinforcements logic.  Also made the focused-reinforcements logic apply to initial ship seeding, which should make at least one player happy.

Yay. :)

Wait, were you referring to me?
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2012, 11:40:06 pm »
Hi Keith, just another food for thought:

Give the exo speed cheats only for special forces captains. Would make them unique and help make them worthy of the "hard" difficulty they currently give.
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2012, 12:56:51 am »
5.074 is probably the best patch since I started playing AI War. Gj with that.
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2012, 01:24:21 am »
Quote from: Kahuna on August 31, 2012, 12:56:51 am
5.074 is probably the best patch since I started playing AI War. Gj with that.

but..

-Achievements have now been added to the game! 129 of them, in fact (43 bronze, 40 silver, and 46 gold). Many achievements are not unlocked until the end of a campaign, but others are unlocked as the game progresses. The achievements that are checked in-game are checked right after autosaves, every two minutes, and right on load of a savegame.

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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2012, 01:47:02 am »
Quote from: Lancefighter on August 31, 2012, 01:24:21 am
Quote from: Kahuna on August 31, 2012, 12:56:51 am
5.074 is probably the best patch since I started playing AI War. Gj with that.

but..

-Achievements have now been added to the game! 129 of them, in fact (43 bronze, 40 silver, and 46 gold). Many achievements are not unlocked until the end of a campaign, but others are unlocked as the game progresses. The achievements that are checked in-game are checked right after autosaves, every two minutes, and right on load of a savegame.

I for one will disagree with that one. I never have cared one bit for achievements. It's a fluff idea that should have been put to the torch before it became mainstream  ::)
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2012, 01:50:35 am »
Agreed, this has been an awesome patch!  Thanks for listening to the community :D
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2012, 02:28:36 am »
What about in 4.000 somewhere (too lazy to search through all of the patches.. but it was somewhere in 3.1xx)

"enabled hybrid hives"? That was certainly really fun for me as a player.
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2012, 03:04:31 am »
Quote from: 5.074 patch notes
When picking a new reinforcement ship for the central pulse or a non-special-forces guard-post-pulse, it has a 10% chance to pick any available ship like usual, and a 90% chance to pick one of its focus types. When picking a focus type, it has 3 times as much chance to pick the primary as the secondary, and 3 times as much chance to pick the secondary as the tertiary. If that doesn't make sense, don't worry about it.
If I'm understanding correctly, that's a 62% chance to pick the primary, 21% chance to pick the secondary, 7% chance to pick the tertiary, and 10% chance to pick whatever.  For an AI with the three triangle ships and two bonus fleet ships, the 10% presumably consists of a 2% chance of picking any of the five available fleet ships.  So the overall chances of picking the different ships would work out to 64% / 23% / 9% / 2% / 2%.

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It's not purely random, sometimes it picks ships that fit certain roles.
Mystifying!  Looking forward to discovering what this means  :)
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2012, 03:17:13 am »
More ambivalent about the focused type change, but we'll see..

*waits to see bug report showing 300 blade spawners camping an AI chokepoint.*

Edit: I'd suggest that this not apply to AI HW and Core Worlds if it does. They have several mark-V unlocks for a reason. ^^
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2012, 04:57:16 am »
Come to think of it, how can this actually work?  What happens when AI 1 tries to reinforce Murdoch and rolls its primary ship type, but Murdoch's primary ship type is only available to AI 2?
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2012, 05:46:08 am »
LOL
EDIT: Oh and that planet has never been alerted :o
« Last Edit: August 31, 2012, 05:50:37 am by Kahuna »
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2012, 05:58:52 am »
What in the name of... OS Raid Engine? That sounds like some kind of testing/development artifact.
Unless doom AIs are now allowed to have invisible raid engines that activate whenever they feel like.
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2012, 06:12:06 am »
Quote from: Faulty Logic on August 31, 2012, 05:58:52 am
What in the name of... OS Raid Engine? That sounds like some kind of testing/development artifact.
Unless doom AIs are now allowed to have invisible raid engines that activate whenever they feel like.
Maybe this happened?
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Re: AI War Beta 5.074-5.075 "Focused Forces" Released!
« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2012, 07:43:56 am »
Quote from: Kahuna on August 31, 2012, 05:46:08 am
LOL
EDIT: Oh and that planet has never been alerted :o

That is the special forces staging ground. They're going to race to the defence of the next high priority planet you attack ;)
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