Poll

 What most needs a buff?

Anti-Armor
1 (0.7%)
Astro Train
7 (5.2%)
Champion Drone Bays (Bomber, Inteceptor, Slicer)
13 (9.7%)
Counter Dark Matter Turret
8 (6%)
Decoy Drone
3 (2.2%)
Deflector Drone
3 (2.2%)
Etherjet Tractor
4 (3%)
Flagships
2 (1.5%)
Hardened forcefields
7 (5.2%)
Infiltrator
15 (11.2%)
Raider
5 (3.7%)
SF Guard Post combat capabilities
3 (2.2%)
Special Forces Rally Guardian
3 (2.2%)
Spire Gravity Ripper
2 (1.5%)
Spire Teleporting Leeches
1 (0.7%)
Superfortress
14 (10.4%)
Tachyon Drone
6 (4.5%)
Teleport raiders
16 (11.9%)
Translocator
1 (0.7%)
Wormhole Guard Posts
4 (3%)
Zenith Power Generator
13 (9.7%)
Zenith Reprocessor
3 (2.2%)
None of these need a buff! (don't use your other votes, will count by head instead of vote)
0 (0%)

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Offline relmz32

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2012, 06:08:42 pm »
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Imagine some more varieties of Astro Trains:
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Additionally:

EMP Train: EMP Guardian's effect on entering the system. <3
CattleGuard Train: Very short range rapid  swallow effect around the train. {Nom!}

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2012, 06:31:51 pm »
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Imagine some more varieties of Astro Trains:
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Additionally:

EMP Train: EMP Guardian's effect on entering the system. <3



AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!



;_;
I can already tell this is going to be a roller coaster ride of disappointment.

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2012, 06:45:54 pm »
EMP Train: EMP Guardian's effect on entering the system. <3
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I see one of you remains capable of detecting an affront to simple human decency.
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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2012, 06:52:31 pm »
EMP Train: EMP Guardian's effect on entering the system. <3
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I see one of you remains capable of detecting an affront to simple human decency.
Says the person who actually implemented the Nuclear Eye?!

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2012, 06:54:41 pm »
EMP Train: EMP Guardian's effect on entering the system. <3
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I see one of you remains capable of detecting an affront to simple human decency.
Says the person who actually implemented the Nuclear Eye?!
It was merely a factual observation, not a value judgment.

That said, the EMP train as described would be at least 100 times more dangerous to the player than the Nuclear Eye.
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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #20 on: October 29, 2012, 07:44:06 pm »
I'm going to say that I would actually turn on Astro Trains if they were like that.  It'd add more to my pain, but it would be entirely worth it.

Btw: first post, absolutely fantastic game.  I'm a bit sad that I only got it when it was on sale.

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2012, 07:59:14 pm »
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Translocator Train - Fire Translocation shots.  For more fun, allow them to send ships to other systems.  For even more fun, allow them to teleport turrets, too.
You have a sick idea of fun.
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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2012, 08:08:11 pm »
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Translocator Train - Fire Translocation shots.  For more fun, allow them to send ships to other systems.  For even more fun, allow them to teleport turrets, too.
You have a sick idea of fun.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Fun

Answer enough.

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #23 on: October 29, 2012, 08:16:32 pm »
Hm I should try to get back into DF. Has the UI improved any recently?
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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #24 on: October 29, 2012, 08:26:45 pm »
Hm I should try to get back into DF. Has the UI improved any recently?

 :-\  Where would you EVER get such an evil idea as that?!  No, it hasn't.

Installer's gotten a lot kinder, though.  Lookup the lazy newb pack.
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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #25 on: October 29, 2012, 08:42:58 pm »
Astrotrains with EMPs?!

How about Astrotrains that pick up Mark Vs from the AI homeworlds and start dropping them off at random 'stations?'

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #26 on: October 29, 2012, 09:09:00 pm »
Hm I should try to get back into DF. Has the UI improved any recently?

As already stated, most certainly not. :P  Still takes the cake as one of the deepest games I've ever played.  I was sold the moment my (ex) girlfriend, as named in the game, dismantled a platform while standing on the wrong side - plummeting 20 stories or so into a cavern.

I honestly haven't played enough AI War to judge the units in this topic, either.  I've only logged ~20 hours or so, so far, and I feel like I've barely seen half the units.

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #27 on: October 29, 2012, 09:11:44 pm »
Btw: first post, absolutely fantastic game.
Welcome to the forums, and the game :)  The forums aren't nearly so focused on your complete destruction as the game is, thankfully.
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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #28 on: October 29, 2012, 09:17:18 pm »
Welcome to the forums, and the game :)  The forums aren't nearly so focused on your complete destruction as the game is, thankfully.

I'm not so sure, if my guess is correct, I'd say some of these posts are geared towards furthering my complete destruction in the game.

Whether that is a bad thing is another subject to speak of entirely.

+1 for the dev interaction and support.  I've been browsing for a while now and I appreciate developers who take the time out and respond to people - especially just simple interaction on a friendly level.  Endless Space was the only other game I've seen to do that well in recent times.

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Re: Poll: Worst Unit Of The (time interval) Award (VIII)
« Reply #29 on: October 29, 2012, 09:23:38 pm »
Hm I should try to get back into DF. Has the UI improved any recently?

 :-\  Where would you EVER get such an evil idea as that?!  No, it hasn't.

Installer's gotten a lot kinder, though.  Lookup the lazy newb pack.
I just thought that if the UI got better, more people would be able to experience FUN easier!
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