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Off Topic => General Interest => Topic started by: Sirbomber on May 07, 2004, 07:16:56 PM

Title: Which is Worse?
Post by: Sirbomber on May 07, 2004, 07:16:56 PM: Which of the Disasters (I consider the Tiger event a disaster) in Outpost 2 do you believe is the worst?

Oh, did I forget any?
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Post by: plymoth45 on May 07, 2004, 07:27:35 PM: the swarm
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Post by: zeritou on May 07, 2004, 07:45:39 PM: all of the above, volcanoes the most likeable
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Post by: CK9 on May 07, 2004, 10:44:39 PM: someone using the death button on you
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Post by: Kiith Somtaaw on May 07, 2004, 10:47:52 PM: Fear the unstoppable Blight.

Volcano's, I Can Live with.
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Post by: CK9 on May 07, 2004, 10:53:27 PM: blight is easy to deal with whe you have volcanos
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Post by: Kiith Somtaaw on May 07, 2004, 10:58:11 PM: True, but you'll need a volcano that would surround your entire colony,
Trapping you within.

Not a good thing
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Post by: CK9 on May 07, 2004, 10:59:55 PM: you have one that can help in the plymouth campeigne if used correctally...
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Post by: Kiith Somtaaw on May 07, 2004, 11:01:54 PM: What Mission is that then,

I need reminding
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Post by: CK9 on May 07, 2004, 11:03:23 PM: the one after you go through theblight infected colony
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Post by: Norsehound on May 07, 2004, 11:07:40 PM: Hard to choose. Blight can't happen in Colony games.

Worst thing that happened to me in a colony game was a vortex touching down near my single structure factory. I quit before it could destroy my only command center, but it was bound to happen. :(
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Post by: CK9 on May 07, 2004, 11:10:23 PM: I like to build hundreds of supers in colony games, then use them to blow myself up, lol
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Post by: Kiith Somtaaw on May 07, 2004, 11:10:33 PM: CK9: Ah Yes, I Remember now.

Norsehound: You can have the Blight in Colony Games,
in the Plymouth Population colony mission.
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Post by: Norsehound on May 07, 2004, 11:12:23 PM: Really?

Kinda defeats the purpose then, unless your raising 400 souls to melt with the blight :P

Or should I ask what level? Difficult?
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Post by: CK9 on May 07, 2004, 11:14:07 PM: I've had the blight in every one of them on easy. It's all about how long you take
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Post by: plymoth45 on May 08, 2004, 12:04:16 AM: i have made some of my games on easy about 20 hours long and haev never encountered the blight on a colony game.
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Post by: TH300 on May 08, 2004, 02:52:37 AM: Vortexes are the worst, bcz they destroy every structure they meet.
Electric storms and seismic events most likely won't do that.

And vulcanos are only a danger if u build ur colony at the wrong place.

The blight will only hit u, if u'r too slow.

Thus nothing's worse than vortexes.
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Post by: Sirbomber on May 08, 2004, 06:15:04 AM: Don't forget about the swarm event.

And how would you feel if your 25 new Tigers were all destroyed by one bad earthquake right under them?
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Post by: CK9 on May 08, 2004, 01:03:38 PM: I still say that someone using th Death button on you is worse, lol
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Post by: alice on May 08, 2004, 02:55:58 PM: I chose other.

The worst thing is whaen there are about 10 tiger thors hammer coming at my literally defenceless base. lol
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Post by: <NH> Cameron1032 on May 08, 2004, 07:53:21 PM: I hate meteors and vortexes. One time I had a huge base on Plymouth Starship 3, and had over 10000 common/rare ore with a whole bunch of storage tanks. A vortex touched down and destroyed a bunch of my storage tanks, and by the time I rebuilt them a meteor was predicted to hit my CC. I thought it would be small, but no, it was huge, and my CC blew up, so I lost the game automatically.
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Post by: CK9 on May 08, 2004, 07:58:58 PM: that's why you build a second base on that one: one for your resources, and one for the starship.
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Post by: Arklon on May 08, 2004, 08:23:08 PM: What colony games does the Blight appear, besides Plymouth Starship II?
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Post by: CK9 on May 08, 2004, 11:30:05 PM: I personaly have seen it in all (spent several weeks just doing nothing, lol)
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Post by: Phantom on May 09, 2004, 01:03:32 AM: Definately the tigers are the worst. You can somewhat survive everything else.
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Post by: Kramy on May 09, 2004, 10:17:20 PM: I think the blight is the most serious disaster. It happens in very few maps though, so I'd have to say: vortex. Tigers don't hurt if you have defenses, but If you're unlucky enough to be hit by a vortex, you lose.(whether it's a lab,cc,or 5 tigers, doesn't really matter as it all effects you.)

Ofcourse disasters are disabled in most multi-games, so tigers.
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Post by: plymoth45 on May 09, 2004, 10:28:30 PM: I feel sry for you cam, and CK, how long was that several weeks feeling?
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Post by: TH300 on May 10, 2004, 02:11:19 AM: Quote
Don't forget about the swarm event.
Didn't think of that. Right, thats the worst.

Quote
And how would you feel if your 25 new Tigers were all destroyed by one bad earthquake right under them?
There'll be time to drive them awa.
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Post by: xfir on May 10, 2004, 07:54:32 PM: Halo: The Flood.

OP2: an army of EMP Tigers and Spiders approaching when you don't even have Mobile Weapons Platform.

The Forum: coming back from a four day trip to find your board
cluttered with spam, in reference to really short posts that have no meritable function nor information. (I.E. "im dumb")
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Post by: Sirbomber on May 11, 2004, 06:00:10 PM: Quote
There'll be time to drive them awa.

The Earthquake Warning message didn't show up for some reason.

And if you want to replace Plymouth Tigers with Eden Tigers, and Eden Base with Plymouth base, go ahead.
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Post by: CK9 on May 11, 2004, 07:40:15 PM: I guess I haven't been doing my job very well, huh x? :heh:
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Post by: op2rules on June 09, 2004, 05:39:26 PM: i say the blight is the worst because even though you escape it it is faster than volcano and goes over hills and cliffs. that is my finall vote. But on the other hand a bunch of tigers is prety bad too in ways.
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Post by: PlayingOutpost0-24 on June 27, 2004, 06:54:51 AM: I've never seen Blight... When does it appear?

(Is it the causer of Disabled-Infected?)
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Post by: Ezekel on June 27, 2004, 09:39:47 AM: in the plymouth pop map on normal or hard i always get lots of lynxs and panthers (simple cos of EMP missle+spider army)... just camping at the staging point for their forces...

course one time i built a load of EMP turrets and spider army right where they come on (which i believe is about 3-4 squares to the right of the left edge)

anywho, the blight is not the most annoying, spontaneous disasters are more annoying, i.e. metors and vortexs
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Post by: RedXIII on June 27, 2004, 09:45:10 AM: Blight, by far.

Volcano, sure, it kills terrains usability, but theres limits to where it can and cannot go.

All other disasters are only local, blight is global.
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Post by: CK9 on June 27, 2004, 02:03:36 PM: Volcanos can be very helpful
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Post by: Betaray on June 27, 2004, 02:45:04 PM: I say, what is the only thing that can take over an entire planet?

the blight
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Post by: plymoth45 on June 27, 2004, 03:41:42 PM: or one of the colonies :P
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Post by: Betaray on June 27, 2004, 03:44:38 PM: the blight is faster
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Post by: plymoth45 on June 27, 2004, 03:47:54 PM: ahem, "Can" Be faster, it depends on the speed of the colony.
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Post by: Betaray on June 27, 2004, 04:18:44 PM: I just thought, in the 4th lvl, when you send the units into the blight, they are able to resist it for a while, and than they dont blow up, they change sides

why than for the rest of the time the vecs blow up instantly? I know those vecs were specially sealed, but why woulndt they do that with every vec?
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Post by: RedXIII on June 27, 2004, 04:42:42 PM: Quote
ahem, "Can" Be faster, it depends on the speed of the colony.

Big difference, a Colony you can resist, stop, and eventually annihilate.

The Blight, you can only slow down. You can never stop it, you can never defeat it. You can never win against it.

Also, the Blight is unaffected by terrain, volcanoes, and such, it is only effected by Day and Night, which is insignificant. A colony is effected by everything but Day and Night.
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Post by: plymoth45 on June 27, 2004, 05:15:18 PM: You missed my point.
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Post by: RedXIII on June 27, 2004, 05:59:42 PM: It also boils down to this.

Would you rather face the Blight, or a hostile colony?
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Post by: Betaray on June 27, 2004, 06:24:14 PM: the hostile coloney at least gives you the chance to surender

and even if they dont, its better to be killd with a rpg, than to melt to death from some supermicrobe
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Post by: plymoth45 on June 27, 2004, 08:15:48 PM: you still haven't gotten my point, or wht i meant i'm begining to think.
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Post by: RedXIII on June 27, 2004, 08:27:48 PM: You must have applied your point poorly.
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Post by: Kal on June 28, 2004, 08:51:40 AM: If you play a multiplayer game with Disasters on, does the Blight appear after a while?
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Post by: RedXIII on June 28, 2004, 10:19:22 AM: No.
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Post by: plymoth45 on June 30, 2004, 04:55:02 PM: The blight is not in multi player. and Red, x isn't going to like that 1 word post.
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Post by: Kramy on June 30, 2004, 05:10:36 PM: But the blight *could* appear in multi in a specially designed map... :whistle:
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Post by: plymoth45 on June 30, 2004, 07:08:04 PM: just one problem, how are you going to make that map? the DLL editor isn't out, nor will it be for some time.
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Post by: PlayingOutpost0-24 on July 01, 2004, 12:38:21 AM: well the small dll editor with C is still here....
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Post by: CK9 on July 01, 2004, 12:23:40 PM: hey guys, isn't this technically a debate?
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Post by: TRIX Rabbit on August 30, 2004, 08:50:57 PM: I would say that the blight is the worst because:
You can dodge a meteor, vortex, storm,volcano, quake
and you can hope a quake starts under those tigers.
but the blight is like playing DOOM on the internet, when your opponet is invincible w/ all weapons; you cant win , no matter what...