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Offline Kraiz

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New Wave Type?
« on: February 25, 2012, 12:29:04 pm »
Been trying to make headway in a Spireling/Zenith Descendant game and not having much luck.  After just starting over the game, 2 seconds into the game, I get the following message:

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152 AI 2 Enemy Ships, 1 Starships [1] to ??? in 20:28
I've never seen a wave like that.  I've seen waves to an unknown system, and I've seen a wave with 14:00-ish countdown (CPA's and Counter Attacks), but never a wave in that format.  What's up with this?  For what it's worth...

Game Time:  0:00:02
AIP:  10
AI 1:  Spireling 7
AI 2:  Zenith Descendant 7


Current Game Version: 5.027
Map Seed / Map Style / Campaign Type / Available Ships:  188094205 / Simple / Conquest / Complex
Enable Cheats / Has Cheated: False
1 AIP every 30min
AI Mods:  Schizophrenic, Reveal Random AI Types
AI Plots:  None for either
Minor Factions:  Human Resistance, Golems and Spirecraft on Moderate
No Disabled Ship Types
Combat Speed:  Blitz
Unit Cap Scale:  Normal

Unscouted planets are hidden (Which is why I think the "???" is showing up, but no idea for why I'm getting a wave with that great a warning and size from AIP 10 riht out of the gate)

EDIT: Had to edit a few things because the roman numeral of 1 in he brackets was being treated as an italics BBCode
« Last Edit: February 25, 2012, 12:33:06 pm by Kraiz »

Offline x4000

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Re: New Wave Type?
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2012, 12:31:28 pm »
It probably means that you unluckily started next to a counter-attack guard post or alarm post or something along those lines.  Hence the long time for you to prepare, and the complete mix of ships the AI is sending.
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Offline Kraiz

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Re: New Wave Type?
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2012, 12:45:33 pm »
No such alarm posts or guard posts present in adjacent worlds.

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Re: New Wave Type?
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2012, 12:47:31 pm »
In that case, it's probably the nature of your AI opponent -- I forget which type does that, but there is one that uses really big mixes of ships rather than waves of a single kind of ship.
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Re: New Wave Type?
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2012, 12:52:17 pm »
Neither spireling nor zenith descendent does anything weird in that regard, but the Schizo flag is on.  Why the wave timer is long, dunno, but for a wave to be triggered at 2 minutes I don't think it could be a normal wave anyway.

If you upload a save, I can take a look at some point; I suspect something triggered an AI building somewhere that it shouldn't have.
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Offline Kraiz

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Re: New Wave Type?
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2012, 01:18:11 pm »
I made a save and then waited until the wave spawned.  It spawned on none of the adjacent worlds, instead it spawned several worlds out and processed to my home system strangely like an Exo without a leader of sorts.  I'm not sure, but here's the save just a few minutes before the wave spawns.