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[Cyborg]

Not asking for a confirmation on anything either way, but there seems to be a new (to me at least) achievement that sounds quite summery... "Heat Wave Brown Out" - net balance of 300,000 energy.  The suspicious folks like me sense an incoming golden prize ticket in the near future :p

  Very amusing, considering our topic this past week.

[BobTheJanitor]

That achievement has definitely been there for a while: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/AIWar/achievements

[Vinraith]

Yup, I've had that one since July of last year (according to Steam), so it's certainly not new.

[Bleek]

That achievement has definitely been there for a while: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/AIWar/achievements

That's a very interesting link! 

[@B0FH]

Wierd - just only just popped up on a stats-tracking website (Astats.nl) - I blame code ninjas then!
Though this page says it's been recently modified.

[Echo35]

Not asking for a confirmation on anything either way, but there seems to be a new (to me at least) achievement that sounds quite summery... "Heat Wave Brown Out" - net balance of 300,000 energy.  The suspicious folks like me sense an incoming golden prize ticket in the near future :p

I'd get it if the AI War Achievements actually worked

EDIT: So I just looked at my AI War Achievements (Such as they are, they tend to bug out for me a lot) and saw that not only did I have the Heat Wave Brownout achievement, but I unlocked it on Oct 28, 2010 1:36am, so yeah, it's been there.

[keith.lamothe]

EDIT: So I just looked at my AI War Achievements (Such as they are, they tend to bug out for me a lot) and saw that not only did I have the Heat Wave Brownout achievement, but I unlocked it on Oct 28, 2010 1:36am, so yeah, it's been there.

I can see that our historical revisionism ninjas are operating at high efficiency

[Echo35]

EDIT: So I just looked at my AI War Achievements (Such as they are, they tend to bug out for me a lot) and saw that not only did I have the Heat Wave Brownout achievement, but I unlocked it on Oct 28, 2010 1:36am, so yeah, it's been there.

I can see that our historical revisionism ninjas are operating at high efficiency

On Steam yes, but you forgot to update the Achievement table in game. You sneaky bastards changed it. I foresee a Ticket incoming.

And for the record, that's "Turn out the Lights".

[Qoojo]

I've had my eye on this game for quite some time. I will buy it during the current sale, but with all steam sales, I will wait till the last day just in case it shows up on a daily sale.

[Elukka]

Wow, some of those achievements are depressing. 66% of players have never played a game for an hour, 81% never played for 5 hours... Though I guess that's bound to happen with any game that has cheap digital sales.

[x4000]

Wow, some of those achievements are depressing. 66% of players have never played a game for an hour, 81% never played for 5 hours... Though I guess that's bound to happen with any game that has cheap digital sales.

That's also just steam players. Which is the majority, but not remotely near the whole. And, as you say, the types of sales on steam might be skewing it. Another way to look at it, though, is that still 10k+ people have played at least an hour of the game. That's pretty cool. For such a niche title in particular.

[Nalgas]

I have a feeling that those of us who do make it over that initial hump probably end up playing long enough to make up for it.  It was not exactly easy for me to get into initially, and if I hadn't had a group of people to play with, I may not have made it to five hours...or even bought the full game, for that matter.  After I pushed through that and got sucked in, though, it's gone on to become my second most-played game on Steam, at least since it started tracking time played.

[Orelius]

I've noticed that running the game with steamworks slows it down immensely, so that's why I normally play without it.  By now, I've probably clocked in a few hundred hours of gameplay, but steam only displays thirty since I don't run the game through steam.

That may be in these cases.

[Nalgas]

I've noticed that running the game with steamworks slows it down immensely, so that's why I normally play without it.

How immense are we talking?  I doubt it'd really matter on my desktop, but any non-trivial difference in CPU use would be pretty noteworthy on my laptop, which gets pretty toasty sometimes while playing.

[@B0FH]

I've never seen any slowdown related to Steamworks on any system I've run AIW on (or seen it run on).