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Offline Mánagarmr

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I think I broke it...
« on: November 29, 2010, 02:59:15 pm »
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2010, 03:05:03 pm »
The bug there is the lack of the chat message:

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2010, 03:07:10 pm »
xD

I just had to try. Just once.
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2010, 03:15:52 pm »
HOLY SHIT GUISE , HELL!

i hope you have "Enough" defenses to make you fail- ohwaitishouldn'tbeencouragingsomeonetofailohwaitmaybeishould
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2010, 03:57:33 pm »
Look at it this way, at least now the AI is taking you seriously.  ;D

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2010, 04:18:53 pm »
Don't flee, commander.
I'd take a sea worm any time over a hundred emotionless spinning carriers.
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2010, 04:28:34 pm »
Surround your wormholes with flak turrets and at least 3 tractor beams. You should be good.

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2010, 04:36:47 pm »
With some of my very early implementations of the flak turrets, that might have actually been enough.

Perhaps toss in a few of the super-alpha heavy beam cannons, which could destroy basically arbitrary quantities of ships if they lined up orderly.
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2010, 05:00:23 pm »
Wow.  But yeah, with that AI Progress, that looks correct to me!  Actually a tad on the low side, to be honest. :)
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2010, 05:43:18 pm »
Wow.  But yeah, with that AI Progress, that looks correct to me!  Actually a tad on the low side, to be honest. :)

What's scary is that you somehow know this...  :o

Btw Fox, wtf did you do to piss them off??

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2010, 05:53:28 pm »
Well, I have my handy spreadsheet for giving me a rough guide on that... and that's actually now online, too: http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Why_Do_Enemy_Waves_Get_So_Large%3F#How_Wave_Sizes_Are_Calculated
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2010, 06:01:54 pm »
I would also like to know how cap sizes work with a schizophrenic AI

And considering of the waves we have had to defend against lately, many of us might be able to handle two lvl 10 with double waves  ;)
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2010, 06:12:37 pm »
I'm pretty sure any one of those incredible waves would cause my CPU to explode out the side of my machine, killing me instantly

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2010, 06:18:18 pm »
I'm pretty sure any one of those incredible waves would cause my CPU to explode out the side of my machine, killing me instantly

Bear in mind that excess gets shunted into carriers: I've actually had a wave of 52,000 units and my CPU didn't slow down at all because only a few thousand were actually active at any given time.  That said, all the carriers blasted my command station to smithereens before I could even kill more than maybe 4k of the enemy with my six armored golems (I had cheated in order to test the massive wave sizes).
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2010, 06:18:58 pm »
Oh, and regarding the schizophrenic AI: it's the same.  The stuff that is per-ship-type is just applied to however many ships of that type are to be added, that's all.
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