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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2010, 06:24:50 pm »
I updated the wiki article with info on the Schizo modifier, and with an added 8th step that I forgot about.  There may be other omissions as well, but they are comparably minor and the article goes a good job of getting you into the right neighborhood on the wave size calculations, at least.  It's a complicated beast.
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2010, 06:40:24 pm »
Do I understand correctly that recently seen waves of 40k or so are by design and they will stay that way?

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2010, 06:54:40 pm »
No, the 40k counter-attack waves are significantly larger than by-design; how much so is still kinda up in the air as we figure out exactly how things were getting that big.
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2010, 07:01:53 pm »
To elaborate, I've spent a good part of the day on investigating/diagnosing wave sizes and I'm not planning to move on until they done fixed ;)  Should still be plenty dangerous afterward, though.

I've been digging through mantis tickets on it for a while, but are there any non-counter-attack-post-related massive waves (other than raid posts, cpa posts, etc)?  Well, and not "I just detonated a mkIII nuke and simultaneously triggered EVERY counter-attack/etc post in the galaxy at the same time" ;D
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #19 on: November 30, 2010, 12:13:56 am »
Btw Fox, wtf did you do to piss them off??

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Basically I spawned about 8 Omega Drives (each give +1000 AIP on death) and then managed to blow up my stashed Mk III nuke. That lead to "fun".
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2010, 12:59:45 am »
Btw Fox, wtf did you do to piss them off??

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Basically I spawned about 8 Omega Drives (each give +1000 AIP on death) and then managed to blow up my stashed Mk III nuke. That lead to "fun".

Ah..........yeah.........stupid much?  ;)

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #21 on: November 30, 2010, 01:02:56 am »
Nah, wanted to see what happened. Doom happened :)
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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #22 on: November 30, 2010, 01:17:12 am »
At first I was shocked until I saw the AI Progress. How in god's name did you get over 13,000 Progress with only one planet? Make it auto at 1000 a second or something? Or did you just get beaten back to your homeworld? Either way, how did you get THAT much progress?

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #23 on: November 30, 2010, 01:20:00 am »
I spawned about 8 Omega Drives (each give +1000 AIP on death) and then managed to blow up my stashed Mk III nuke.

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #24 on: November 30, 2010, 04:04:52 am »
wavecaps & excess ships from waves getting trimmed into special forces spawns instead of carriers on lower AIP?

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Re: I think I broke it...
« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2010, 11:33:56 am »
I responded in that  issue.
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