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Offline TechSY730

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Wait, Typo?
« on: December 10, 2010, 10:42:14 pm »
In the current patch notes:
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Fixed a major longstanding typo in the AI loop dating back to sometime pre-3.120, wherein huge numbers of the AI's planets often would not be evaluated for AI logic, attacking, etc.

Weird. How did this even compile?
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2010, 10:43:15 pm »
A stray "break" when there should have been a "continue" will compile just fine.  :-\
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2010, 11:07:22 pm »
Yea, that would do it :(
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2010, 11:08:50 pm »
I think there was a loop that got removed or something in the past, but that piece of code remained.  This was a rare enough code branch that it wasn't in-your-face always broken, and even when it was broken it was only for some of the planets in most cases.  Spikey had a case where it was just incredibly in-your-face though, and it still took the better part of the day to find the issue even with such a glaring example.  Glad to have that one gone, anyway.
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2010, 11:29:20 pm »
Am I special yet?
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2010, 11:30:57 pm »
Always have been.  Thanks. ;)

Now just working on the hunter/killers, because your save is now unplayable without them.  I'm getting something like 2-3 real seconds per game second with 21k ships trying to queue up outside your impenetrable fortress of spirecraft, too.
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2010, 11:34:24 pm »
Oh, the humanity!

(My game would probably freeze/crash with a current level of 35k threat ships.) 
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2010, 11:36:35 pm »
Indeed.  Not after the next patch, though. :)
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2010, 11:42:44 pm »
Wait, hunter killers? You mean those monstrously powerful ships I spotted when scanning over all the ship types? The ones that were so scary looking I hoped I never would have to face them?  :o
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2010, 11:45:19 pm »
Yeah, but don't worry.  It's just collapsing the existing difficulty into a single ship (or two), rather than five thousand ships.  That way it's kind to your CPU/RAM, but the difficult is roughly equivalent.
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2010, 12:58:45 am »
What would be the approximate firepower/staying power, then?  Comparable to an avenger, perhaps?
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2010, 01:00:17 am »
Quote from: Spikey00 on December 11, 2010, 12:58:45 am
What would be the approximate firepower/staying power, then?  Comparable to an avenger, perhaps?

I haven't done a comparison, actually.  But it's certainly up there.  On paper it's the equivalent to about 12k mark III/IV ships for one of these at the mark V level, but we'll see if that really holds true.
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2010, 01:41:20 pm »
Quote from: Spikey00 on December 10, 2010, 11:29:20 pm
Am I special yet?

You have always been special  -  Lord of the 60 colony ships. ;D
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2010, 11:13:19 pm »
Quote from: Spikey00 on December 10, 2010, 11:29:20 pm
Am I special yet?
Nah, you gotta break 2k posts like me :P

j/k, what X said :)
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Re: Wait, Typo?
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2010, 11:15:30 pm »
2K posts!?  Oh, but that's so much work!  :<
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