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Offline TheStratovarian

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I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« on: July 14, 2010, 08:18:53 pm »
I hit an unwinnable start. A raid engine, sitting on a world right outside the starting, Mark 4 world, warhead intercept, level 3 battleship, mark 2 ion cannon, level 3 battleship, ff booster and ff disable (Everything short of a gravity drill and mass driver.). I take or touch any world, and I'm up to my neck in core reclaimers. (First fellow was a leech one) I tried for about half and hour, and about 1400 disabled core ships sitting outside the home world world from the 180 spider turrets. I just resigned, (and had not one peep out of the backdoor hacker that was the other fellow)

I'm surprised i guess, i never expected an unwinnable start.

Offline Sizzle

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2010, 08:31:45 pm »
Map seed #?

Offline TheStratovarian

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2010, 10:14:32 pm »
Is there any way to go back and see what you played? (I'm sorry if not, id love sharing the seed number to see if anyone can do that.)

Offline Lancefighter

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2010, 10:54:36 pm »
check your score history or somethingoranother..
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Offline Buttons840

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2010, 12:59:38 am »
Should have tried using some parasites to capture incoming ships.  Though I guess you can't catch other parasites.

Offline superking

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2010, 05:17:44 am »
mapseed yo, I wanna try this out  :)

Offline eRe4s3r

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2010, 07:12:46 am »
mapseed is displayed in the galaxy map somewhere
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Offline TheStratovarian

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2010, 01:27:37 am »
1853027343 looks right (and i never knew about the history showing the seed, ty, it really helps) I had taken parda, for the teleport station. (to recreate, my situation, sorry about the delay in a reply.)

Offline TheStratovarian

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2010, 02:45:36 am »
120 planets, simple map style, I'm a bit of a goof to forget that.

Offline SgtScum

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2010, 03:35:33 am »
With 16 billion possible seeds it suprises me stuff like this doesn't happen more often. Would be interesting to have a thread where we can post all the crazy hard seeds for everyone to try out.  8)

Offline Dragon

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2010, 12:57:50 pm »
I had no raid engine next door when I tried loading up that game.  There were two mark four systems two jumps away, but neither had a raid engine either.  I think what AI type and difficulty effects things like that.  And likely if you have things like Astro Trains turned on (I play with them off).

Offline Sunshine!

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2010, 01:40:10 am »
Aren't the special buildings randomly distributed within the map based on certain parameters (3 steps away from homeworld for factories/fabs/ARS for example) without regard to the actual map seed?  If that's the case, recreating that exact scenario would be near impossible to get all those specific special buildings placed right next to your homeworld.

Offline superking

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2010, 09:32:31 am »
a savegame/

Offline Excession

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Re: I never thought i'd say this, or see this, but
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2010, 08:17:31 am »
Yes - we all love Kobayashi Maru challenges - just like good chess puzzles -  please save gave and post next time :)


Did you try going Leech Starships yourself?
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