Prerelease 3.093 (Huge golem rebalance, MRS buff, planetary summary fixes)

[ShadowOTE]

So, the modified MRS system is amazing. One of them is now able to cover entire fleets on the go, and they work even better on the defense behind a forcefield on spokes worlds 

[Doddler]

I too am loving the MRS changes.

[RCIX]

MRS changes sound promising! i can now have an uberfleet of resistance frigates, bombers, and fighters cruising at good speed!

I had an idea: What if more effort had to be thrown into capturing a golem, like having to defeat a specialized protector of some kind? It still remains as a "what can i use to boost my full fleet" thing (as it is intended to be now), but it gets that Experimentals from SupCom feel to it.

[superking]

Now all we need is an event like the 'rebel colony will uncloak on planet x in 120 minutes';

'AI will repair armoured golem on planet x in 120 minutes'

[keith.lamothe]

Yep -- apparently that is new.  Keith, that's a really important one.  Can you look into that tomorrow if you have a chance?

Sure.  For some reason the notifier never sent me this string of posts; perhaps it has a similar bug

[eRe4s3r]

Objection - as long as you are in supply fortresses are able to be used as offensive force and even defense/turret cleaners. 5 fortresses

Last time I played, I was limited to 4 fortresses.  Has this changed recently?

The build limit is 5 fortresses. Fairly certain of that. At least thats what my build choice tells me 5/5 , that is

[x4000]

Objection - as long as you are in supply fortresses are able to be used as offensive force and even defense/turret cleaners. 5 fortresses

Last time I played, I was limited to 4 fortresses.  Has this changed recently?

The build limit is 5 fortresses. Fairly certain of that. At least thats what my build choice tells me 5/5 , that is

You are both correct, actually. 5 is the limit in solo play, 4 is the limit in 2 player. The ship caps scale down slightly with multiplayer games as they get larger.

[ShadowOTE]

Yeah, with 2-3 people in the game you get 4 each, which is pretty insane if you've got a good choke point (spokes, trees, snake, etc). The lower cap isnt an issue as long as you play it smart.

[Kalzarius]

You are both correct, actually. 5 is the limit in solo play, 4 is the limit in 2 player. The ship caps scale down slightly with multiplayer games as they get larger.

Ah, OK. That explains it. 

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, I found the problem with the frigates-getting-suicidally-close, it was tied to some of the throttling changes I'd made earlier.  I fixed it for 3.094by removing the throttle on the function that checks "am I close enough that I can stop now"; performance doesn't appear to suffer since it wasn't a big-cost function that has to check every other ship on the planet or anything like that, but we should keep an eye on that.

Made a variety of performance and throttle improvements as well; ships should be much less likely to just sit there without firing during a fleet battle, and should be more likely to get updated target lists if all their current targets are out of range.

[Kryzite]

MRS change makes leech units soooooo much better, I play with Shadowote frequently and he grabbed parasites and the new MRS, had ourselves a nice core of 100-200 mark IV ships within the first hour, which is good because it allowed us to finally stabilize against level 9 AIs on a spoke world, something we had been trying to do for awhile (3-4 failed attempts, but losing is half the fun!)

[ShadowOTE]

Just like Dwarf Fortress! (+1 nerd cred)

And yeah, parasites are my new favorite ship. I've been building them pretty much exclusively, since I keep stealing dozens of tier 2 frigates and bombers. A bit of micro, and they do a great job stealing dozens of zenith bombardments (enough so that I reached ship cap on them!). Now if only I could start giving Kryzite the ships I've stolen... oh well, i guess I'll have to settle for just stealing them for myself 

[keith.lamothe]

Ah, DF, now there's a justification of technology. Perhaps I should make an AI Plot named "Fun"

[ShadowOTE]

Hmm... well, if you combine a fleet with FRD with a devourer, you could argue that our ships are kinda like dwarfs at the moment: reckless and prone to suicidal acts of stupidity. This calls for lava - PULL THE LEVER!

[Kryzite]

Hmm... well, if you combine a fleet with FRD with a devourer, you could argue that our ships are kinda like dwarfs at the moment: reckless and prone to suicidal acts of stupidity. This calls for lava - PULL THE LEVER!

FYI I deleted your FRD control node that game after you lost like 5,000 ships to that golem!