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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0013002 | AI War 1 / Classic | Bug - Gameplay | Jan 4, 2014 12:09 pm | Sep 2, 2014 11:25 am | |
| Reporter | snelg | Assigned To | |||
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 7.009 | ||||
| Summary | 0013002: ARS giving designs unlocked by backups already. | ||||
| Description | In a recent game I got the same ship design from an Advanced research station as I got from a backup earlier the same game. Later on I found another backup for the same ship again, but that's not much of an issue. It makes it potentially a waste to not hack the ARS if you might not get anything from it. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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| related to | 0015772 | new | ARS & Design Downloads |
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ARS ship types are determined at map generation, while the AI's unlocked ships can change as AIP goes up. This means either you risk redundancy, or you prevent the AI from ever gaining the 15 ship types the ARSs contain. That doesn't seem reasonable or balanced, especially with AI types like the "Everything" type. I think this comes down to "User Beware". |
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It's not like the game warns you unless you bring a hacker there so I'm not sure if it's a good idea to just call it "user beware" and be done with it. Surely there must be other solutions solving the problem and still letting the ai get the ships. For instance from a player perspective (though I'm not familiar with how hard it would be to implement) it would make sense if the ARS would simply get a new shiptype if the ai moves one over to a backup. This way the ai would get all its ships and I as the player won't have to worry about whether or not I'll get duplicate ships unlocked after finally capturing an ARS. I don't think it would be too open for abuse and would even kind of make sense. If the ai gets the ship it doesn't need to keep it in the research station which makes place for something new. Might even make the game feel a little more alive. Just an idea, would love to hear what others think would be a good solution. |
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I agree with snelg...if possible, it should reroll the affected ship(s) of that ARS. Or possibly move to the next ship unlock (so there would only be two remaining unlocks for that ARS). |
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I believe the same thing happens with hacking a backup server. I got raider twice. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Jan 4, 2014 12:09 pm | snelg | New Issue | |
| Jan 5, 2014 3:51 am | Toranth | Note Added: 0034705 | |
| Jan 11, 2014 9:24 am | snelg | Note Added: 0034710 | |
| May 2, 2014 11:24 pm | Winge | Note Added: 0037287 | |
| May 10, 2014 8:59 am | greyhoundgames | Note Added: 0037836 | |
| Sep 2, 2014 11:25 am | MondSemmel | Relationship added | related to 0015772 |
