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Offline FFLaguna

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Chances for golems, rare capturables, etc. to appear?
« on: December 05, 2009, 04:10:25 am »
I can't find anything about how to determine how likely these special ships or capturables are to appear somewhere on your 80-planet map. Does anyone have insight into this?

I just started playing AI War a few days ago, and I preordered the expansion just last night. I'm very happy with this game and its developers... Keep up the hard work! :)

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Re: Chances for golems, rare capturables, etc. to appear?
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2009, 09:43:19 am »
Glad you're enjoying the game, and thanks for your support!

The percent chance for rare capturables to show up in the game is something that is pretty hard to express as a single number.  For some of them, it's something like "when rand(0, 200) < 10, looped three times" to see if there's a chance of putting the random item on up to three planets.  And it varies by item, some (like AI Troop Accelerators) are very rare, most are not all that rare but may be in inconvenient spots in some maps.

For Golems, there are always a few on the map if you're playing on 40 or 80 or so -- I think the minimum is around 3.  You can see how many Broken Golems are out there waiting to be fixed in the Mission Objectives list on the right side of the screen.  One important thing to keep in mind is that the capturables/superweapons/golems are the most incomplete thing about the expansion so far; I think that around maybe 6-9 have been implemented so far, out of the 25-30 that are on the list for completion.  As those additional capturables arrive in the expansion, they will automatically be inserted into existing savegames if you load the existing savegame into the new versions with those capturables; so as the expansion is finished, you'll definitely be seeing vastly more capturables scattered around the galaxy. :)
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Re: Chances for golems, rare capturables, etc. to appear?
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2009, 11:20:27 am »
Thanks! That's nice to hear. :)

So where can I find information like what you just posted? Is it all collected in one easy-to-read place? I read the entire preorder information page, but there aren't many specifics. Is there at least one loooong changelog I can sit down and try to read, or a listing of new features now? Thanks! :D

The sub-forums with a single thread for each new feature is not easy to read, and I don't see it including information like you just said. For example, the thing about the 3 broken golems on the map. I'm sure it's been communicated at least once throughout the course of development, but where can I find this information now? :)


Ahh, I found the text file attached to a previous pre-release thread! However, it's not attached to the most recent pre-release version thread. Go attach it now :P

Thanks for such a fun game. Wish me luck. :)
« Last Edit: December 05, 2009, 11:46:32 am by FFLaguna »

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Re: Chances for golems, rare capturables, etc. to appear?
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2009, 03:01:01 pm »
Welcome to the community!  If you want to find others who are looking for a game, check IRC and the forums--the multiplayer experience is far more pleasuring than solo-ing (usually).

Glad you're enjoying the game.  (:
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Re: Chances for golems, rare capturables, etc. to appear?
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2009, 09:08:36 pm »
FFLaguna: I've attached it to the most recent thread. It's also available in the prerelease zip file, if you download that. :)
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