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Offline Lancefighter

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Hybird plot strength numbers
« on: October 25, 2012, 02:43:29 pm »
Is one plot of hybrids at 4/10 the same as two plots of hybrids at 2/10?

Does this extend to adv hybrids in any way (ie, does the adv hybrids plot care about the strength of hybrids in any way?)
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Re: Hybird plot strength numbers
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 03:29:53 pm »
Yea, it's basically linear in terms of number of spawners and hybrid pop cap, iirc.

Doesn't impact the Adv Hybrids stuff, really, it just increases the "bulk strength" of the plot, where the Adv setting is more about how mean it gets to be in addition to that gang of thugs.
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Re: Hybird plot strength numbers
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2012, 03:33:43 pm »
Ok, that makes sense.
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Re: Hybird plot strength numbers
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2012, 09:00:08 pm »
Yea, it's basically linear in terms of number of spawners and hybrid pop cap, iirc.

Not sure about that.  From the patch notes:

Quote from: 5.034 patch notes
Hybrid Hives
  • Now instead of being an on/off toggle in the lobby, it can be set to a value from 0 to 10. 0 is disabled, 4 is the previous "normal" number of hive spawners seeded at the beginning of the game, 1 is way fewer than that, and 10 is way more than that (it's not linear).
  • Don't use a high value unless you want to see a LOT of these.
   
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Re: Hybird plot strength numbers
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2012, 09:52:44 pm »
The patch notes are probably right, in that case ;)
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