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Musil wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:55 pm

How quickly would you want them to adapt?

Should be variable, depending on some difficulty preset.

But suppose if they send two waves and they do very little damage each to non-wall structures, the next wave would include biters with some resistances to the most common causes of deaths in the preceding wave.

But, there'd have to be some trade-offs, that is, the biter properties ( speed, damage, %DR, the flat DT to various damage types) ought to be limited, so no biter of certain size could be 'too good'. You know, like a point system for RPG characters.

Maybe, if biters get beaten badly, randomly generating a dozen new enemy types with new point distribution, and then seeing which ones survive the longest/do the most damage. Then the most successful biter types would be produced more by the nests.

The biggest problem is you have to pre-generate all of the units.

Musil wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:52 pm

The biggest problem is you have to pre-generate all of the units.

You can't change unit properties after game start, add or remove resistances ?

Kiu wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 16, 2019 3:57 pm

Something went very wrong with the newest release...
There are alot of invisible indestructible spawners in 0.17.29. Health is shown as "100", but no weapon can damage then (no hitbox?)
And the sizing on the map is extremly oversized (at least I think it is, or there are alot of other things I can't see/mark/hit)

Kiu wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:03 pm

Tnx for the fix

About the "Biter faction color should match map color now" change.
Is it possible to add an option to have the old "red-only" style?

Especially with Alien-Binomes, Bobs and even the base game its hard to see the difference between enemies and oil patches, snow, ore, forgotten buildings (more annoying ruins mod, because its almost impossible to find them on the map anymore) and other elements.

cantina_fly wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:07 pm

Hi,

Returning player looking for some help sorting my AI/Biter mods. I played a vanilla game of .17 when it was released for reference and then went back to full Angle/Bob with most of AAI Vehicles and normal QoL mods (Squeak through, etc...) I also added Rampant (+ Arsenal) and NE during this last round of modding and was quite enjoying it. I stared the game today, updated everything, and loaded my last save to see a note about compatibility with Bob's Enemies and NE that quickly faded.

I came here and saw the 12/15/19 patch notes under Framework about compatibility with these two mods, but I can't seem to locate a list of "what changed" or why. My last save had both NE and Rampant enemies enabled so I'm trying to sort out for me new game do I:

1. Disable Bob's Enemies and NE
2. Disable the Rampant factions and leave Bob and NE in place
3. Play with an older version of Rampant in the hopes Bob and NE release updates compatible with the recent changes

I really enjoyed the AI changes with Rampant that added significant "Tower Defense" to my factory simulator and just want the largest variety of enemies reasonably feasible.

Thanks.

Veden wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:46 am

At the moment, I have no plans to add compatibility. This mod takes enough of my time without having to try to keep it in sync or incorporate others mods.

Glad you have enjoyed the mod.

Veden wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:46 am

I prefer the blending, but to each their own.

Should be a setting in the mod settings.

cantina_fly wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 20, 2019 3:26 pm

Veden wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:46 am

At the moment, I have no plans to add compatibility. This mod takes enough of my time without having to try to keep it in sync or incorporate others mods.

Glad you have enjoyed the mod.

Thanks but I didn't mean you! Maintaining one complicated mod is enough for any sane person. I meant if other mod authors wanted to make their enemies work with Rampant again. And Rampant wasn't always a favorite mod. The first few times I played it was a frustrating mess until I adapted my play style. I actually use my entire starting iron patch making mostly ammo.

Keep up the good work.

TheTom wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:14 am

Just as a question - is there any timeplan for 0.18? I am restarting a megabase project and I seriously do NOT want to start without Rampant Anyone any success just updating the reference file so it starts under 0.18?

Amazing job with this Mod - seriously the developers should integrate this as advanced feature into the base game.

Molay wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:38 pm

Is there any way to make biters _only_ attack at night? I.e. biters spawn during day from pollution, then all attack at once at night? Possibly in waves if too much pollution accumulated?

Following the style of Drake Hawkins' Youtube videos, I started up a game of Factorio with the Rampant mod. I play with the wave difficulty scaling on 3x to make the game extra hard. I hadn't noticed problems before, but in this run, I was 2hrs30m into the game, there was no evidence of any base expansion or more than minimal raids by biters. My settings are otherwise fairly standard, my mods inoffensive, and my pollution level was at 21%.

Drake is also experiencing a complete lack of heavy attacks on his current series. He's on experimental, I'm not. I'm on Factorio 0.17.79. Therefore I suspect this is a bug with the mod.

Savefile: https://gofile.io/?c=oYFoVG
Modlist: https://imgur.com/a/T1EUoFO

I hadn't cleared out any bases myself by this point. Touring round the enemy bases shows no activity beyond what the map would have started with. (By the way, base frequency is at 133% and base size is at 75%.)