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Offline Kahuna

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Trillion ship CPA
« on: October 16, 2012, 02:32:31 am »
Last night I dreamed about AI War... :o It was a very short dream. More like a screenshot ::) I think I had something like 1000 AIP and there was a CPA coming with "1 Trillion Ships". When I saw the CPA announcement I was like what the hell?? And then the dream ended.
What the hell?? ???
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 07:48:46 am »
It's a sign of the end times!! :)
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 08:27:42 am »
Quote from: x4000 on October 16, 2012, 07:48:46 am
It's a sign of the end times!! :)
Maybe it was a premonition about what's going to happen in my current game :o
Nooo I'm afraid to play now xD
« Last Edit: October 16, 2012, 08:29:57 am by Kahuna »
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2012, 09:12:28 am »
Hahahha.
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2012, 09:29:30 am »
Quote from: x4000 on October 16, 2012, 07:48:46 am
It's a sign of the end times!! :)
At 10/10 wouldn't it just be business as usual?
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2012, 10:18:01 am »
I forget what the record is, but iirc someone once posted a screenshot of an incoming set of waves with a total size in the vicinity of 10 million.

That was before carriers. 

The application did not survive wave launch.

That was when we added carriers.
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2012, 10:20:15 am »
17 million, I'm pretty sure.  It was someone testing with a bunch of golems on one planet back when each golem tripled the size of incoming waves.
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2012, 10:28:25 am »
Quote from: x4000 on October 16, 2012, 10:20:15 am
17 million, I'm pretty sure.  It was someone testing with a bunch of golems on one planet back when each golem tripled the size of incoming waves.
Oh, right, the wonders of multiplicatively-applied modifiers :)
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2012, 10:35:40 am »
So the 17 million ships...
Did the game actually send the attack, or did the 17 million ships bring down the game engine first? I get the feeling I already know the answer.
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2012, 10:37:52 am »
Oh, it sent the attack.  I think he had to wait 20 minutes or so before the ships appeared (after the game counted down to 0 seconds remaining), though, and then the game crashed shortly after that.

And this was a wave, not a CPA.
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2012, 04:45:41 pm »
Wouldn't a CPA of that size mostly fail to materialize? CPAs don't spawn new ships if there's not enough in the galaxy, right?
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2012, 04:51:37 pm »
Quote from: KDR_11k on October 16, 2012, 04:45:41 pm
Wouldn't a CPA of that size mostly fail to materialize? CPAs don't spawn new ships if there's not enough in the galaxy, right?
Nowadays between the barracks and the strategic reserve and the normal guards there would be quite a few total ships available for CPA duty (if you want to see just how many, I think the "pull the lever" cheat should unleash them all), but yea, a million+ CPA would largely just not show up.
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2012, 02:46:35 am »
Quote from: keith.lamothe on October 16, 2012, 04:51:37 pm
Quote from: KDR_11k on October 16, 2012, 04:45:41 pm
Wouldn't a CPA of that size mostly fail to materialize? CPAs don't spawn new ships if there's not enough in the galaxy, right?
Nowadays between the barracks and the strategic reserve and the normal guards there would be quite a few total ships available for CPA duty (if you want to see just how many, I think the "pull the lever" cheat should unleash them all), but yea, a million+ CPA would largely just not show up.
You can see the amount of AI ships in "Stats" --> "Galaxy Stats":
"Your Ships: 3029"
"Allied Ships: 39"
"Enemy Ships: 7439"
Since I have that many "ships" I assume "ships" also means turrets and buildings? Also I checked those numbers at the start of the game and "Enemy Ships" was something like 10k or 12k. I guess destroying Barracks lowered that number.

Since "Enemy Ships" = 7439 does this mean max CPA size would be a bit less than 7439 ships? I mean AI never sends ALL ships. Right? :-X

EDIT: I set Filter to "My Units" and calculated the amount of units and I got 3029. So that number does include ships, buildings and everything. That makes me wonder how many SHIPS the AI really has.. cause the AI has 72 planets (I have 7). So there's a LOT of guard posts, Hybrid Facilites and other buildings. There's literally 3 Barracks left in the galaxy.
« Last Edit: October 17, 2012, 03:10:19 am by Kahuna »
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2012, 05:02:48 am »
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"Enemy Ships: 7439"
That does not account for the strategic reserve(s). I would guess the actual max cpa size would be something like 12k ships.
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Re: Trillion ship CPA
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2012, 05:35:21 am »
Quote from: Faulty Logic on October 17, 2012, 05:02:48 am
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"Enemy Ships: 7439"
That does not account for the strategic reserve(s). I would guess the actual max cpa size would be something like 12k ships.
Core CPA Guard Post sent ~1600 ships.

EDIT: A "normal" CPA was just announced and it has 8879 ships. According to the Stats there's now 8880 AI ships in the galaxy.. hmm interesting.
« Last Edit: October 17, 2012, 06:11:44 am by Kahuna »
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