AI War Beta 5.045 It's Full Of Something Other Than Stars!

[Cyborg]

Okay. Maybe next time. I'm not giving up on it.

I dunno how the game would even accomodate what you're looking for: for it to be a foreground object it can't be larger than a 1024x1024 pixel square, and we've already got a few ships that size.  To actually have a planet in the foreground that you can blow up... I dunno how it would fit

With the new spell graphics from Valley without Wind, you could do it. I'll make an off-topic post about planetcrackers… I know you have sprite limitations, but look what you did collectively with the graphics upgrade/backgrounds? You could do it, and not only that, you would be the only company to do it.

[Hearteater]

Are you just wanting the planet in the background to shatter when someone nukes the system?  A purely cosmetic thing?

[TechSY730]

The good:

The AIP changes look cool, and I am looking forward to the new buffed (well, mostly buffed, the heavy beam one was nerfed) core guard posts.

The "bad":

The seeding logic is going to change again, which means I'm going to have to wait to start my next game, again.
Oh well, it will be worth it.

[Wanderer]

Holy mother of Armok...

Core Zenith Bombard Guard Post: Basically balancing this against a cap of MkV Zenith Bombards, but with way less durability and about half the attack power.
 Base Health from 6M => 12M.
Damage Per Shot from 60k => 900k.
Effective Attack Range from 53k => 34k.

*buuuuuhhhh*  Ow.

[Ricca]

As a person who's playing against The Core on a 10/10 game, all I can say is that I'm starting to dislike those buffs.

[keith.lamothe]

As a person who's playing against The Core on a 10/10 game, all I can say is that I'm starting to dislike those buffs.

If you're particularly interested in beating 10/10 you may want to not update until you finish that.

But in general 10/10 is supposed to be such that relatively few players are good enough to even survive (in a non-limburger scenario) to mid-game.  Several months ago this was true but for the wrong reason: the opening double-wave required extreme effort (and generally cheese) to survive, but things were quite a bit easier after that.  Now the early waves are way easier, and the challenge goes up from there.  So it's possible to get into the game and discover later (but hopefully not too much later) that you're simply out of your league.  We don't want people to spend a bunch of hours not realizing they were in over their head, and I don't think that will happen here, but in general if you select "Doom" difficulty, well...

Anyway, in general I'm quite open to adjusting what's been changed or moving it back and changing something else, etc.  I've already got the 5.046 release packed up so I'm going to go ahead and push that in a few minutes (didn't do it last night because I wanted to be around in case of breakage, and it's a good thing as our internet was down for a few hours), but it's likely I'll reduce the range on the Core Z Bombard Post still further, etc.

[keith.lamothe]

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