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0000162AI War 1 / ClassicBug - OtherOct 20, 2010 9:42 am
Reporterthemachineissentient Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version3.121-3.189 
Summary0000162: Annoying behavior of enclaves - the single wormhole shuffle
Descriptionhttp://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,6973.0.html

Is it intended that enclaves should be able to use a single wormhole and the transit time between to act as a safe haven from being hunted down and killed?


 Fleet A (X) ------------- (Y) Fleet B


I had a fleet parked at both ends of the wormhole, but the enclave was popping back and forth between X and Y quickly enough that neither fleet ever even started shooting, though both fleets were well within range. The enclave would pop back and forth for a minute or two, then when it had enough build points, unleash a wave of younglings that were the fleets not there to handle them, would have done serious damage to the system. The fleet on either side would mop up the younglings, and the cycle would continue. The enclave ship itself was effectively invulnerable. On the times that it stayed out long enough to drop the load of younglings, I'd get to beat on it for a few seconds, but it regenerated all the damage done when it went back to doing the wormhole shuffle.
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Chris_McElligottPark

Oct 19, 2010 8:01 pm

administrator   ~0001415

Anyone seeing this on the more recent ones? Ships shouldn't retreat for 30 seconds after entering a planet, so this really should not happen.

keith.lamothe

Oct 20, 2010 8:55 am

administrator   ~0001489

They don't actually use the formal "retreat" logic you're thinking of, they're controlled by some special logic I wrote. But I found one pretty big bug in the special "retreat" logic in there several versions ago and fixed it, I doubt this specific error is still happening.

Chris_McElligottPark

Oct 20, 2010 9:42 am

administrator   ~0001491

Okay, great. Moving to fixed, then.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Oct 3, 2010 12:49 pm themachineissentient New Issue
Oct 4, 2010 9:57 am keith.lamothe Assigned To => keith.lamothe
Oct 4, 2010 9:57 am keith.lamothe Status new => assigned
Oct 19, 2010 8:01 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0001415
Oct 19, 2010 8:01 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status assigned => feedback
Oct 20, 2010 8:55 am keith.lamothe Note Added: 0001489
Oct 20, 2010 9:42 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0001491
Oct 20, 2010 9:42 am Chris_McElligottPark Status feedback => resolved
Oct 20, 2010 9:42 am Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => fixed