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[Frumple]

Spoiler: I think we made the AI mad (click to show/hide)

[lemon10]

Spoiler: I think we made the AI mad (click to show/hide)

How exactly did you manage to do THAT?

[Aklyon]

Spoiler: I think we made the AI mad (click to show/hide)

How exactly did you manage to do THAT?

Omega drives aren't nukeproof. Tarran nuked the universe. The AI attempted to lag us into not succeeding. But we made it to the end of the timer!

[Tarran]

Frumple, I have failed you! I lost a Tackle Drone Launcher fab to the AI! I'm so sorry!

But in my defense, I was distracted, watching my MK5 Shredders eat a bunch of fighters. I didn't notice the Spire Starships and their tiny sprite.

[Tarran]

Hey errybody, turns out the new patch has changed the alt-champ settings. They're actually important. Here's a copy-pasta for all your pasta needs:

Champion Alt-Progress Revisions

    Just iterating on the new alternate mechanic based on feedback. Basically making this variable-intensity so you can get a simple relatively low-power champ for a "low cost" (in terms of AI response), but you can also choose to get all the champion bells and whistles in exchange for a much more potent response. But you can set the response separately if you're feeling cheesy or think that you've offset the advantages in other ways.
        Thanks to chemical_Art, Aklyon, Toranth, Faulty Logic, ZaneWolfe, and others for inspiring these changes.

    The Alt Champ Progress option has been moved from the Modifiers section to the Minor Factions section of the lobby, and made variable-intensity (0 to 10, 0 being off, 4 being default).

    An Alt Champ Nemesis option has been added to the Minor Factions section of the lobby, and has the same intensity range.

    The normal nemesis response logic for champions is now completely disabled when playing with alt-progress. So none of that business about caring about what hull size you've gotten at what AIP, etc.

    Loading a save with the old alt-progress Modifier will translate that to 1/10 alt-progress and 1/10 alt-nemesis.

    Alt-nemesis sends periodic champion-only exos that are somewhat similar mechanically to golem/spirecraft exos but also key off the number and size of champions, etc.

    At intensity 5 and higher, alt-nemesis also periodically generates threatfleet nemesis champions.

    XP gain in alt-progress is now multiplied by the setting's intensity.
        XP-needed-per-level has been increased from 2000 => 5000, such that on intensity 3 you're gaining levels faster than you did in the previous alt-progress setting, but on intensity 2 you're gaining them slower, etc.
            The current balance target is that by late/end-game on intensity 6 you'll have reached about level 60, by capturing 15 planets (45k K), 4 ARS's (2k K) and knowledge hacking one full planet's worth (3K k). 50k K * 6-intensity = 300k XP, 300k / 5k-per-level = level 60. Whether this balance target is in any way sane remains to be seen.

    Now alt-progress grants 1 random new modular fortress type at unlock-sets 3, 6, and 8 if the intensity is 3, 6, and 8, respectively.

    Now alt-progress spawns 1 random splinter faction large starbase near the first human home command station at unlock-sets 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7, and various intensities (9+ is required to get all five splinter factions).
        These large starbases will spawn their foldouts for each human player as they would in a successfully completed nebula, thus granting metal income, energy generation, and the ability to construct the ships of those factions.
            The ship cap for each of these splinter faction ship types is multiplied by (intensity/3), so if you have alt-progress set to 5, those caps will be multiplied by 1.67. This parallels how normal progress can give you multiple caps of each type by giving multiple reward-structures of the same faction.
                In fact, normally you can only get about 9 caps of splinter faction starships in normal-progress (unless you turn on allow-duplicates, then it goes up to around 13). Here you can get somewhat over 16. This compensates somewhat for not getting the extra energy/metal of the duplicate starbases.
            One advantage the alt-progress approach to splinter factions provides that normal-progress does not is the presence of those large starbases near your home command station. While they may not see much action (depending on your defensive setup), these starbases are formidable defensive structures in their own right.

    Each level gained now contributes 10 points towards the next unlock-set. For reference: Unlock sets are gained every 100 points, and an ARS grants 100 points.
        This way, even if mapgen puts all the major capturables several hops from your homeworld (which obviously didn't just happen in the developer's test game) you can still gain _some_ unlocks and eventually reach destroyer hulls if the progress intensity and/or knowledge coming in is high enough.

Also, there are a bunch of other changes. You might want to look around a bit for interesting things.

[GiglameshDespair]

How about a game this sunday?

[Aklyon]

Alright.

[Tarran]

If the same time as usual, then yes.

[Aklyon]

Heads up post:
Nominations for Most Important Pre-8.0 Polish
Go and suggest something if you think its important.

[Tarran]

I assume we're going to team up again to gang-smash the AIs with Commando-Tarran and Team Giggling Frumpped Akkys again in ~3 days, same time?

[GiglameshDespair]

Probably not tghis week, no.

It's a turbulent time.

[Aklyon]

Probably. Sunday is the last of the giant clump of 'things that involve going somewhere with everyone' for me thats been going on the last week or two.

[Tarran]

Next Sunday, next game yes?

[Frumple]

... 5/25, yes. 6/1, probably not. I'll be away from home, but with laptop. Just probably won't be home on time or whatev'... attending a family member's graduation. If I'm not on steam that day at start time, assume no-show.

[Aklyon]

Should be good, yes.