0002969: Dyson Sphere an Over Powered Ally - Arcen Idea Tracker (Bugs and Features)

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0002969	AI War 1 / Classic	Bug - Other		Feb 27, 2011 4:28 pm	Mar 23, 2011 11:24 am

Reporter	ArcDM	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	5.002
Fixed in Version	5.007

Summary	0002969: Dyson Sphere an Over Powered Ally
Description	Once befriending a Dyson Sphere (and your planets are connected to it) it will flood your planets with Dyson Gatlings continuously thus making a very effective defense for those planets (you wont need turrets for most of them), numbering through the hundreds given time. This effect is magnified by having several friendly wormholes that are cross planet from each other (like hubs). At no time will the Gatling enter a hostile or neutral wormhole (ironically, that means they refuse to reenter the planet the Dyson Sphere is on). My proposed solution it to give the Gatlings a random chance to enter those hostile or neutral wormhole.
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KDR_11k Feb 28, 2011 1:26 pm reporter ~0010832	Also since I know you guys are huge fans of optimization that generates a big CPU load.

BobTheJanitor Feb 28, 2011 2:36 pm reporter ~0010833	I'm not in favor of them randomly entering and alerting/freeing ships on AI planets. But there's a lot of discussion about this here: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,8180.0.html so I won't rehash it. I am in favor of some change that makes them less of an overpowered guard force and less of a CPU drain in late games, but this particular solution doesn't appeal to me.

ArcDM Feb 28, 2011 2:45 pm reporter ~0010834	As far as I remember, minor faction are not supposed to alert, free, nor cause threat.

Chris_McElligottPark Mar 23, 2011 11:24 am administrator ~0011335	Hopefully this should do it, you're right: * Previously, allied minor faction and zombie ships would just patrol around player planets endlessly, which was helpful for defense, but problematic for two reasons: first, that it could cause massive amounts of slowdown after many hours of them stacking up, and second, that it could cause massive buildups of AI stalkers, who never dare to attack the planets with so many defenders, which leads to something akin to stalemate situations. Thus the allied minor faction and zombie logic has been adjusted as follows: * Neutral planets are now considered the same as allied planets, and the ships will patrol to them like any others. * If there are more than about 100 of AI threat ships on an adjacent planet, the ships will also patrol to that planet to clean them off. * If the human-allied team has more than a token military force (more than about 10 ships) on a planet, then these ships will patrol to there, to help aid in that attack. **** This allows for small raids to still happen with raid starships or whatever without assistance from these minor factions, but it enlists their help for larger-scale engagements.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Feb 27, 2011 4:28 pm	ArcDM	New Issue
Feb 27, 2011 5:20 pm	TechSY730	Relationship added	related to 0002719
Feb 28, 2011 1:26 pm	KDR_11k	Note Added: 0010832
Feb 28, 2011 2:36 pm	BobTheJanitor	Note Added: 0010833
Feb 28, 2011 2:45 pm	ArcDM	Note Added: 0010834
Mar 23, 2011 11:12 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Relationship added	related to 0002764
Mar 23, 2011 11:24 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0011335
Mar 23, 2011 11:24 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => resolved
Mar 23, 2011 11:24 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Fixed in Version	=> 5.007
Mar 23, 2011 11:24 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => fixed
Mar 23, 2011 11:24 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark