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In freeplay, what triggers creepers to start attacking? How are the size and frequency of attacks determined?

Well unless i'm too stupid to find it, the "survive until ship lands" mode doesn't seem in yet?

In non-ship landing mode there only seem to be "normal" attack

Not sure how exactly these work, looks like the first attack is 60 minutes in with 5 aliens
But then it looks like following attacks would be 3000 hours apart with 2 more aliens each time so maybe i'm just reading those numbers wrong

So your actions have no influence on creeper attacks? Technology, power, construction, and resource supply/stock aren't factors?

syneris wrote:So your actions have no influence on creeper attacks? Technology, power, construction, and resource supply/stock aren't factors?

Maybe it was a coincidence, but my observation revealed that the Radar makes them come more frequently. (Really.. a guess, I removed it after a while)

At the moment the attacks are purely time based. Have a look in the corresponding control.lua script for the details.