Author Topic: Huge resistance (ally) swarms and planet with 2 warp gates?  (Read 802 times)

Offline Buttons840

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I've recently returned to AI War, and was previously playing version 3.060, and I'm loving the new changes.  Here's a few things I've never seen before, and I'm wondering if this is normal:

1) Huge Resistance fighter swarms (allied).  I had about 150 show up in an AI sector and completely ruined the AI on the planet.  I brought a transport full of ships to neuter the planet while it was empty.

2) AI planets with 2 warp gates?  Is this normal?  What more can I say?

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Re: Huge resistance (ally) swarms and planet with 2 warp gates?
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2010, 03:35:16 am »
2) Its normal for pairs of warp gates to be on core planets. At least in my game there are always 2 on core planets.

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Re: Huge resistance (ally) swarms and planet with 2 warp gates?
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2010, 03:40:11 am »
3.060 is an old version. I remember having that same problem.  :)
Time to roll out another ball of death.

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Re: Huge resistance (ally) swarms and planet with 2 warp gates?
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2010, 08:42:45 am »
That's actually kind of a midsize resistance fighter swarm, too. If you had a long 3.060 game, then now that you upgraded and the resistance can actually spawn properly, they'll have a lot of back spawn points stored up, so you'll see more of them than usual in that game.
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Re: Huge resistance (ally) swarms and planet with 2 warp gates?
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2010, 08:50:29 am »
Yea, there was also a save/load bug at one point that caused the resistance counter to become some uncomfortably high number; the code would only allow a doubling each time, but it doubled every 80 seconds ;)

As a result of that, the counter is capped at 2000 no matter what.
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Re: Huge resistance (ally) swarms and planet with 2 warp gates?
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2010, 08:53:42 am »
Oh, good for the cap. I did not realize that was for the counter itself.
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Re: Huge resistance (ally) swarms and planet with 2 warp gates?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2010, 08:57:54 am »
There's also the logic that keep multiple spawns from accumulating more than 1500 of the res. fighters or 1500 of the res. frigates on one planet.

Those resistance fighters and marauders were no end of trouble this last cycle ;)
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