AI War Beta 6.013 "Core Foamhammer" Released!

[keith.lamothe]

EDIT: Reading the more detailed patch notes though, all should hopefully be OK if the hamsters work as they are supposed to

Yes, they should actually be far more efficient in turns of "turning the conversion on" when it's needed, and off when it isn't, so that you aren't wasting time waiting for it to spin up or wasting resources waiting for it to spin down (you could avoid those transition times by manually powering the manufactories up or down... but why have the micro?)

[LaughingThesaurus]

Waitaminute

Keith, this is the Core Foamhammer that you use to nerf things right? Is there a mark higher than this to hammer out the really bad balance issues?

[keith.lamothe]

Waitaminute

Keith, this is the Core Foamhammer that you use to nerf things right? Is there a mark higher than this to hammer out the really bad balance issues?

It was a play on "Foehammer".

If I needed something heavier, I guess I'd have to see if there's a Nerf Foamton Lance.

[LaughingThesaurus]

I didn't catch the reference because I'm really bad at references. I was playing on the word 'core' being used as the highest possible level of something. That said I totally support the use of a Nerf Foamton Lance.

[keith.lamothe]

I didn't catch the reference because I'm really bad at references.

I'm guessing you don't understand much of what I say, then

I'm not so much a game designer and programmer as I am an engineer of extremely obscure references.

[TechSY730]

Waitaminute

Keith, this is the Core Foamhammer that you use to nerf things right? Is there a mark higher than this to hammer out the really bad balance issues?

No, but the Hunter Nerfer Mk. V and the Mothernerf are still around for balance emergencies.

[keith.lamothe]

and the Mothernerf

We'd probably better leave Smurfette out of this.

[Aklyon]

Does the Hunter-Nerfer get along well with the Hunter-Sander?

[Cinth]

We'll be ok, unless the "AI has gone to plaid"

[Aklyon]

We'll be ok, unless the "AI has gone to plaid"

What happens if the Spire are gone to plaid first, though?

[LaughingThesaurus]

ehehe... Mothernerf...

Anyway, I'm really bad, but I catch some of your references. But let's just say if you gave me 1$ for every reference I caught, you wouldn't be hurting much financially.

[Cinth]

We'll be ok, unless the "AI has gone to plaid"

What happens if the Spire are gone to plaid first, though?

Well... I guess we would know that they overshot the target by several lightyears and Rick Moranis is probably taking 5.  Smoke'em if you got'em.

[Winge]

ehehe... Mothernerf...

Anyway, I'm really bad, but I catch some of your references. But let's just say if you gave me 1$ for every reference I caught, you wouldn't be hurting much financially.

I'd probably have to give him money if I took that deal...

[Faulty Logic]

Carriers get popped by nukes now. Their contents, however, are unaffected, deploying as though I had just destroyed the carrier. [rage]*FIX IT*[/rage]

[Diazo]

Umm, that is the behavior I would expect, according to the patch notes the change to carriers just removed their Nuclear Explosion immunity, it did nothing to the "spawn contents on death" logic so killing the Carrier with a nuke is effectively the same as killing it via fire from your fleet.

The last time I faced a flood of carriers I ran into this using Lighting Warhead spam. Was quite a surprise to pop 6 carriers and get a Golem to the face.

D.