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Offline Mánagarmr

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Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« on: March 17, 2010, 10:26:15 am »
I'm not sure this is a bug, or just my crappy understanding of my game mechanics, but occasionally, it appears planets that have no reason to do so will become alerted to my presence. Attached is a screenshot of my current game. The encircled systems are alerted, but I can't see a proper reason for it.

EDIT: The ships at the P3 planet neighboring Murdoch is just scouts.
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2010, 10:28:46 am »
That means that some sort of minor faction that is hostile to the AI is there -- a Dyson Sphere, the devourer, a rebel colony, something.
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 10:40:24 am »
Thank you for that clarification!
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 10:41:34 am »
No problem!
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 04:35:21 pm »
Quote from: x4000 on March 17, 2010, 10:28:46 am
That means that some sort of minor faction that is hostile to the AI is there -- a Dyson Sphere, the devourer, a rebel colony, something.

Does the Devourer actually count as alerting the AI?  Because that's some serious Zapp Brannigan thinking by the AI right there...
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 04:46:55 pm »
Yes, it does.  And actually, the AI is capable of killing the devourer, though it doesn't do so often.
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Offline Rod Serling

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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2010, 04:59:58 pm »
It's a giant machine that heals itself by destroying small combat vessels.

The AI's solution:

"Exceeding [its] kill limit by sending wave after wave of [machines] to be killed by them"
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2010, 09:07:34 pm »
Heh. That seems to be the AI's solution to humanity, too.
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2010, 01:23:11 am »
The Devourer is a machine of utter death to mobile combat units.  Once they get into range and the autotargeting gets past the edge case of only having a few in-range to shoot at, it will generally start killing things at a rate of 40 per second, all the while healing itself.  Not to mention its shields are strong enough to stop most normal fire.
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2010, 02:12:23 am »
Yeah, it's a bloody monster. Judging from the picture above, I'd say whatever is causing the alert is at Murdoch, seeing as it's only the systems around Murdoch that are alerted.
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Re: Planets alerted without obvious reasons
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2010, 01:42:03 pm »
Only way that devourer may die is a huuuge turrets concentration on AI worlds when there are no mobile units around. This can happen since when reinforcing some of AI's use turrets extensively so in a way Devourer is preparing a grave for himself... albeit very slowly
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