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Offline LordSloth

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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2013, 03:05:11 pm »
It was more about: lightning and flak turrets will (not?) hit cloaked targets if they fire off at nearby targets?

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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2013, 03:13:03 pm »
I just tried the save and killed all the eyebots and infiltrators (though there may have been an accident involving a lightning warhead, I deny responsibility).

Pity about the mkIII NRC EMP that came in and disabled all the home station's forcefield just as the rest of the enemy fleet came into range.
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2013, 03:30:20 pm »
 Gravity counters most of the bad stuff in this game. Gravity 3 + decloakers are giving plenty of time in my current game to deal with eyebots, 85 eyebots mk3 vs 1 gravity3+1 decloaker+military mk1+30 laser turret mk1, the eyebots didn't even scratch my command station.

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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2013, 03:34:35 pm »
What I mean is that gravity gives you more time to kill the ones your tachyon beams _are_ decloaking, which causes them to stop boosting the invisible ones, which causes those to be decloaked by your tachyon, so you kill those and they stop boosting, etc.
Aha. I didn't know they work like that^^ herp a derp.
Yes I am able to decloak some of them.
And I just tried that but without Gravitational Turrets^^ I just attacked the Counter Attack Wave with my fleet and easily destroyed all Eye Bots.


But before that.. I ALMOST managed to stop the wave the hard way. I did destroy all Eye Bot by tractoring them away with 3 Mark I Riots... the Command Station was left with about 130000 health... I thought I survived........ really... I was about to post here and say I stopped it "the hard way"!... and then I realized the Mark III Plasma Siege Starship would soon destroy the Command Station.
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA that's like a final fu from the AI


EDIT: As I said^^ I'm going learn and stop them without MilIII or Counter-Missiles.
« Last Edit: June 12, 2013, 03:37:03 pm by Kahuna »
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2013, 03:35:54 pm »
The AI is indeed very expressive with its plasma siege starships :)
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2013, 03:39:32 pm »
.....that was surprisingly exhausting battle.. I'm just gonna go sleep lol. It's 22:39 anyway.
« Last Edit: June 12, 2013, 03:43:31 pm by Kahuna »
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2013, 03:42:44 pm »
.....that was surprisingly exhausting battle.. I'm just gonna go sleep lol. It's 22:39 anyway.
Excellent, that gives the AI more time to plot.
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2013, 03:43:36 pm »
I think the Rotten Cow sent those Eye Bots.......
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2013, 03:45:32 pm »
Yea, counter waves are mighty quiet about where exactly they come from.  You never know.  There could be a cow level.
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2013, 04:04:34 pm »
Pity about the mkIII NRC EMP that came in and disabled all the home station's forcefield just as the rest of the enemy fleet came into range.
Yeah that's 10/10 NRC for ya.. and for me too.... I had 3 Mark V Raid Starships on LV-016 which I used to destroy the EMP.

Also^^ now we need a Rotting Cow AI which only uses TDLs and Eye Bots. All Mark V of course. Thanks to the rotting cow all core worlds smell so bad the player must unlock the Gas Mask technology or all player's ships would take 100000 attrition dps.
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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #25 on: June 13, 2013, 04:09:41 am »
While I'm highly amused by the idea of an AI that specialises in whatever ship types are the subject of most forum hate, I suspect it would have to be updated too often to be worth it.

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Re: Eye Bots are immune to Tachyon..
« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2013, 04:31:14 am »
You could just call it the Troll, or the Patch AI.