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1790 days, 7 hours, 28 minutes ago

lodda

i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots of time to play.

1790 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes ago

emork the lizard king

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

Lodda, I enjoyed our last Blitz game a lot! It means much if I say that about a game I lost. ;)

I had a look at the two games advertised above and found that the game where you are Colonies has a very high Tri rate and the game where you are Rebels has a very high Dur rate. This is exactly the mineral you need most for a quick start of the chosen race. It might be by accident or it might be a clever shuffling. This kind of map optimization was also done in the last Blitz tournament by some so this is not at all an accusation or so. I'm just curious if it is the case.

1790 days, 6 hours, 53 minutes ago

lodda

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

no shuffling, first map. Seems many blitz maps have high mineral ratios, different distribution than normal games. I just looked, found a lot of similar high mineral games in the my finished blitz game archive. Till now I always took first map, but I admit it is tempting when u have a bad start position :).

Why can you see my race choice in the 2 open games? If I click on it, it says unknown. Usually only on 2nd turn enemy race is revealed to me.

1790 days, 6 hours, 40 minutes ago

challengespaceyard

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

There is a quirk on the Allies tab which reveals the race the first player picked. For example, in my open blitz game [which is not in the list because I wanted to avoid bug(s)], I would show up as playing the Colonies.

1790 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes ago

emork the lizard king

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

CSY is right.

In my opinion this is a big flaw. I could have easily chosen Pirates after I know you play Rebels and not e.g. Lizards.

1790 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes ago

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

Best thing would be mineral rates are hidden. Even the static homeworld mineral core is another flaw on my view.

1790 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes ago

challengespaceyard

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

A bigger flaw I know of is that blitz games are sometimes created with TWO planets, with one homeworld overwriting the other. I don't have any information with respect to reproduction.

1790 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes ago

lodda

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

I get emails sometimes saying i gained xxx campaign resources in blitz game, can i use them for normal campaign games? Getting some 100 turns in blitz is done fast.

1 on 1 Blitz Turn 8

Game Schedule: SMTWTFS at 22:00

On turn 7 you earned the following resources for your officer which you can use to research new technology and ship types for 'Campaign' battles:

Duranium: 1.40 Tritanium: 4.62 Molybdenum: 2.00 Megacredits: 3.00

This turn is due: 10/1/2014 10:00:00 PM

Host has run on 115466: 1 on 1 Blitz you may now play turn 8.

1790 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes ago

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

No. That is just a "form letter" sent by the computer. No campaign goodies in blitz games.

1790 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes ago

lodda

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

Oh, too bad :-) so i have to grind the missing 300 tritanium for the lizards saurian heavy class frigate the hard way. Really want that ship :-)

1789 days, 11 hours, 32 minutes ago

lodda

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

Ok, i saw it now too under allies tab, you can see race of player who opened game, didnt notice it in dozen of blitz games. Its a real flaw. Same as shuffling maps. But shouldnt be hard to change it, hide race in allied tab and punish shuffling somehow. Or let it be game feature and inform all players, so not only experts benefit from it :) Havent seen that 2 planets on map bug yet in dozen of games.

1788 days, 6 hours, 58 minutes ago

challengespaceyard

RE: i opened 2 blitz games, join if u like :) Today I have lots...

Even better yet, hide the resource information as well until the second turn of a blitz.