Infinity (level)

[annikk.exe]

Map Type: Very Large, Open
Difficulty: Medium/Hard

Features:

• Gravity
• Infected AI
• Numerous level-specific mechanics, which I shall leave you to discover for yourself..

To win, capture all asteroids.
Defeat occurs if you lose all your habitable asteroids.
Remember to send some scouts to the comet as it passes...  :>


Special thanks to main beta tester Smokey.

Other beta testers:
Simonstep
Temphix
Tristavius

[ArdB]

Thanks for this great map. I played all the maps that were posted so far but this one is the best.
Looking forward to play your next level.

[annikk.exe]

You're welcome, and thanks for signing up!  It's cool that this is your first post and it's in my thread.  ^_^

I was beginning to think nobody was going to have anything to say about this map, despite 40+ downloads already.

If you want to keep an eye on future map development, the Gravity Dev Blog thread is the place to be.. :>  When I start work on the next map, I will post updates on my progress in that thread.

[Bonobo]

Annik, I wanted to play your map before I wrote something about it. And first I didn’t have time, so …

Yesterday night I finally got to play. Wow, what an amazing game. First I lost, after perhaps an hour or 90 minutes, and what a hefty loss it was!

But in the second game I was cleverer (must’ve been so, otherwise I wouldn’t have been victorious cause I didn’t hack the level). And after perhaps 3.5 or 4 hours of excitement and transpiration I finally had conquered all asteroids. Had to give up my original home in the map, though, during the progress of the game, but …

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… then I took over the other galactic arms, clockwise, and making sure that I always had 500+ defending seedlings in each of my galactic arms.

It seemed that my seedlings were somewhat stronger than the enemy’s, since I was able to defend an asteroid with my seedlings amounting to perhaps half the number of aggressors.

Very very cool are those comets, which I learnt to use like a bus but often mixed up whether I had to “change the bus” or stay on it in the central crossing.

And funny things happened after victory, see attached image: One of the comets bumped off the right side of the universe and flew back into the window, but my seedlings which populated it were somewhat late to realize that they had to follow this comet, too, that was funny.

This is an amazing level/map, Annik, and it was great fun playing it. Much the more since this time I really had a chance to win it w/o having to hack the level. And I have the feeling that I may play this level quite a few more times

THANK YOU, SIR!

Greetings, Tom

[annikk.exe]

:D

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the awesome feedback :>  Totally made my day.  :>

[Koss]

Amazing level. Very good balance. First & second time I lose, but in third, after 2 hour I can beat it. A.I. is good.
And final demo is nice
THANK YOU !
Waiting you next level.

[smeece85]

Awesome work!  Very fun and interesting.  Figuring out a strategy was the best part, and for once I felt like strategic movements were the singular key to victory.  In the past I've felt like the infected AI was too good and that chance almost dictated either victory or crushing absolute defeat.  Here was different though because it wasn't simply a race to fill in as many planets as possible, and the infected had to make the same decisions and sacrifices I did in order to get to the other belts.  Hard to describe except to say great level!  Thank you!

p.s., here was my strat:

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As soon as you can, put as many seeds on the comets as possible and keep a high number there for the entire game! You will likely have to loose your home land, but you can reclaim it after capturing a different belt.

[GMNives]

I've been having some trouble getting this map to work.

In order to get the game to recognize the level you need to modify the name from "infinity.lua" to "level_infinity.lua".

Then once I go into my client and attempt to open the level the menu buttons disappear and I am left with the manilla background for a suspended amount of time. I have to restart my client to recover from this problem.

I'm eager to give this level a try - but I've tried a lot to get this thing working with absolutely no luck so far.

[Bonobo]

My version of Eufloria doesn’t require a level name to begin with “level_”, I've played this lever a number of times w/o changing its name—you might want to update your Eufloria to the current version.

[annikk.exe]

This map requires Eufloria v2.04

You can download the update here: http://www.dyson-game.com/files/PatchEufloria.exe

[kennywalker1q2q3q]

is there a limit on the amount of seedlings aloud in a galaxy after a while none of mine or the enemies trees generate seedlings, i thought it might be because the enemy had a about 3900 seedlings

sorry if this seems like a really stupid question

[annikk.exe]

There is indeed a limit, as far as I'm aware it's hard-coded.  If either you or the AI gets to the limit, the game is likely to be over anyway though.

[Bonobo]

There is indeed a limit, as far as I'm aware it's hard-coded.  If either you or the AI gets to the limit, the game is likely to be over anyway though.

Uhm, but …

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… I had the impression that in this map (Infinity) my asteroids and those of the AI sometimes stopped producing seedlings during the game, when it hat proceeded for about 2 hours. Could have been perhaps 2.400 seedlings on my side and perhaps 1.200 on the enemy’s, something like that. Then after some mutual butchering, the roids produced again.

[GMNives]

Finally got it working. This map KICKS ASS.

I haven't been able to beat it yet... But holy seed is it hard.

The moving asteroids add so much more to the game in terms of tact. I wouldnt mind seeing more of these "moving body" mechanics in future maps. Keep the amazing work up man.

[threephi]

Another great level and the hardest one yet!  Anikk, hard to believe but you keep outdoing yourself.  I really like how your levels demand the player exercise good strategy in order to win and each one makes you expand that skillset above what has come before.  This one took me three tries I think until I had a solid plan figured out.

I also really, really like the post-victory "show" when the asteroids all break loose and float around.  It's always been a bit anticlimactic after a long Eufloria battle for it all to just suddenly end and this was a brilliant idea to add a little reward after it's all over.  Winning this level means you will necessarily have a very large number of seedlings scattered about and I like to try and send them to and fro among the interweaving asteroids for the complex trails the masses of seedlings create as they stream between targets. 

I have found a bug in this section however, which resulted in an unrecoverable game freeze that required killing Eufloria from the task manager.  The conditions to cause this bug don't happen every time, in fact I've only seen it once out of five or six total times winning the level, but I don't see why it can't be repeated.

Here's what happened: I managed to send about 800 seedlings towards one of the comets as it slingshot very close around one of the now-freely-floating "sun" asteroids (the large unplantable ones at the head of each quadrant).  The comet passed very close to a sun so it departed with a very high velocity, and soon left view for universes unknown.  There were still hundreds of seedlings chasing it, and they continued on their trajectory after the comet disappeared off the edge of the screen.  A short time later, the game froze completely (still in the after-game show) with task manager showing Eufloria completely maxing out the CPU core it was running on.  My naive impression was that the game engine got stuck in an endless loop as it tried to compute a trajectory for the seedlings to a target that either no longer existed, or had out-of-bounds coordinates.  I've only seen the bug once (out of maybe six times winning the level) but if my theory is correct then it naturally would happen again under the same circumstances.

I also found what I think is a hole in the AI engine that when exploited, makes winning this level a lot easier than it should be.  I tested a few of your other levels and found the same flawed behavior in the AI.

Lengthy discussion of my winning strategy and the AI bug:

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The hole/flaw/bug involves the uninhabited and unplanted asteroids which are "pre-owned" by the AI.  If you put some seeds on one of these empty AI planets before the AI gets there or sends any seeds there, but don't plant any trees, and it is the most desirable asteroid in the AI's expansion path, the AI will completely avoid that asteroid or even cease expanding completely.  After noticing it in Infinity, I played through Infected Empire a few times and was able to induce the same buggy AI behavior there as well.

Before detailing the AI problem I want to describe my strategy for winning this level since I discovered the flaw while developing it

The early phase of my victory strategy for Infinity is to get the seed economy going as efficiently as possible and also quickly capture the two upper-most asteroids in the home quadrant so you can put about 45-50 seedlings on the first comet that swings by.  That is usually close to all my seeds at that point of the game, but if you have taken those two top planets, and fully planted the first three, you will quickly grow enough to conquer the remaining two asteroids with plenty of time to build a large enough force to crush the first invasion when it arrives.  One seedling from the first comet gets transferred to the other comet so I can orbit it around the upper right quadrant's sun in order to get an early look at the AI's base and how many seeds are coming on the invasion comet.  The remaining seeds ride to the lower left quadrant for an early pre-emptive strike to cripple the AI there so I can get those asteroids producing seedlings for me instead of the bad guys.

After the first run through with this strategy, it seemed quickly winning the lower left wasn't quite enough to guarantee victory as the AI kept hammering me with huge invasion forces from the upper left.  Next game, I let a bunch of seedlings stay on the first comet all the way to the upper left to get an early peek at the AI stronghold.  I was surprised to see most of the asteroids were still empty at that early stage as the AI was still in expansion mode.  I hopped all of my seedlings onto the empty corner asteroid (the one closest to that quadrant's sun planet) and planted a tree.  This slowed the AI down appreciably but didn't quite do enough I thought.

The next time I tried this variation of my strategy, after landing my seedlings on the upper-left corner asteroid (owned by the AI but unplanted), the game wouldn't let me plant a tree even though I had enough seeds (a bug in Eufloria itself).  [aside--this game bug occurs sometimes when you have this exact situation, friendly seeds on a virgin enemy asteroid that has neither trees nor exposed roots but can be planted.  Effectively you cannot select the asteroid--the asteroid menu with the tree buttons disappears when you release the mouse click after selecting the asteroid, making it impossible to click the tree buttons.  It seems to only happen with certain numbers of seedlings on the asteroid, above which it doesn't occur.  This bug is entirely separate from the AI bug but I mention it in case Alex or Rudolf are reading, and because the one led me to discover the other] 

Anyway, this was a frustrating situation--I had sent ten of my precious seedlings deep into enemy territory on an important sacrifice mission but they were suddenly stuck in limbo.  I couldn't plant a tree and I also couldn't retreat since there were no adjacent friendly or neutral asteroids  But here's the AI flaw--surprisingly, the AI completely avoided that asteroid like the plague!  The AI kept developing the other asteroids in that quadrant, but would not touch the corner with my lowly ten seedlings on it even after having the maximum 100 seeds on each of the other planets.  It also _never_ sent seedlings onto comets as they passed by even though the comet's path in that quadrant brings it within the send radius of the two next inner-most asteroids.  Needless to say, eliminating the threat from the AI's strongest forces with only a handful of seedlings made the level something of a cakewalk

A little more detail on the bug:  After mopping up the AI in the upper right, I sent about 2000 seedlings to that corner asteroid in the upper left.  With no trees planted, the AI still stood in place.  The instant I planted a tree, the AI finally sprung into action and ran into a deathtrap.  I tested the bug a few more times with different numbers of seedlings.  When I put only one seedling on the corner, the AI invaded like normal.  With seven or more, it wouldn't invade.  However, when I also put seedlings on the asteroid directly above the corner one, the AI invaded normally.

That dovetails with what I saw in Infected Empire.  First I cornered the AI on one asteroid, carefully leaving a trail of open virgin enemy asteroids for the AI to expand into, some with my seedlings on them, some not.  When I had seedlings on the one biggest asteroid within the AI's occupied asteroid's send radius, but didn't plant a tree, the AI wouldn't expand.  The AI wouldn't even expand into other reachable unplanted AI asteroids that were completely empty.  So long as I kept my seeds on that one best asteroid within its reach, but didn't plant a tree, the AI wouldn't expand.  However, if I planted a tree on one of those other previously empty, less attractive asteroids that the AI had ignored earlier, it attacked.

Ok... if you read that and your eyes haven't fallen out of their sockets yet, I want to say again what a great job you did on this level.  The care that went into it definitely shows, especially the balancing of when the comets arrive, how fast they go, how strong the AI's attacks are, the number of trees on each asteroid, etc. etc.  Kudos to you and your testers!

[annikk.exe]

Thanks for the feedback threephi.  :>


Hmm, that is a fairly serious bug...  and just another reason why I want to completely overhaul the AI engine.

It will be less hap-hazard this time around.  As well as the notion of connected asteroids checking their neighbours and building a "metric network" in order to guide seeds to where they are needed, I will also be introducing an OSI-style formal layered structure.  This will take more concepts directly from real-world networking.  The idea is that layers below perform services for layers above.

For example, the very bottom layer will likely be the layer that defines which asteroids will be checked.  Currently the engine simply picks a random asteroid belonging to the AI on each game cycle.
The layer above it will be responsible for creating the arrays of data defining the status of neighbours.
And the layer above that will be responsible for analysing the checked asteroid's status, and so on.


Underscoring the bug testing of the engine will be a giant brainstorm that will aim to consider all possible situations an asteroid might find itself in.  EG, populated, under attack and outnumbered, surrounded by enemy asteroids with at least 1 friendly route... that's one possible state.
Another possible state would be populated, less trees than the treecap, no friendly routes, and not under attack.

I can then trace the logic for each of these different states that will be provided by layer 1, to make sure that the layers above handle it in a logical and correct way.  This period of brainstorming would then lead to proper accounting for situations such as the one you described in your bug report, and the AI wouldn't choke on "unusual" circumstances like that.


The big advantage with doing a layered approach is that I can work on each layer distinctly; layer 1 will always produce an asteroid that can be used by the layers above, and no matter what method of selecting asteroids I use, or what exclusions I introduce, layer 1 will ultimately always select an asteroid, ready for the upper levels to set upon.


Alas, my house must come first...
2 weeks till I move in.

[w4tc]

My game crash alway's if i lose the game
and on that moment de astroides where moving
but on this versie i play 2.05 but i have also on that version the defauld parameters changd xD  
I make alway's a backup of the version

so now i try it on the 2.04 on the normale defauld parameters
Adding :

ok xD i play it just in 2.04 and i lose xD damm it a hard game...
but thise time there was not a crash, thats good
but there was only 1 astroides that was moving little astroide where you not can plant the tree's
but at that moment that i losed al astroides where moving xD is thit a bug?

but it look nice game
greetings
w4tc

[annikk.exe]

This map crashes on 2.05 for an unknown reason.  I guess 2.05 is a big change and it's still in beta testing.  Pity I have no clues on what the cue for the crash could be.  Any suggestions on that appreciated...

Regarding the moving asteroids when you lose - it's not a bug.  There is a "losing sequence", although I imagine most people will not find it, and simply quit and restart before they actually lose.  There's a whole bunch of random little things like that in Infinity.  For example, did anyone notice the pulsating colours of the comet, when no seedlings are on it? :>

[Bonobo]

Yeah, IIRC it switched colours/empire symbols. I like that Too bad that sometimes when giving feedback such things get lost/forgotten. Sorry for this, because you invested really a lot of thought in this level. And I guess many people had an exciting time with it. I only hope that the newly surfaced bugs (?) get fixed so that we can play it some more. I for one would like to play it again.

[wowo]

Hi annikk,

thanks so much for this awesome level... :-))

LOVE your infected AI, it adds so much to gameplay...

was lucky thought to beat it on first attempt, I guess a lot depends on where the asteroids move first...

Anyways, thanks again for putting that much effort in great custom levels which makeit real fun to come back to eufloria every couple of weeks ;-)

wowo

[lightstriker]

great level you have here. absolutely vicious, although I was able to beat it first try by circling around till I grabbed top right area, then just winning from there. Great fun though. Thanks for the level

[Daggaroth]

hi, just got this game and just got this map and I am enjoying it very much.

although I had a mod question if you dont mind.

how do you tell in the code which planet ( asteroid) you are going to start out with?

I wanted to make the "home planet" a planet that could support more trees, say like 10.    but I am unsure how to find which one is the one that you start out with.  could you point me that way please?

[annikk.exe]

The bit where your home planet is created is this bit:

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-- Asteroid 11
-- gravity variables
roid = 11
AccelerationX[roid] = 0
AccelerationY[roid] = 0
MomentumX[roid] = 0
MomentumY[roid] = 0
density[roid] = 0.75
CoordX[roid] = CoordX[0] + 23500
CoordY[roid] = CoordY[0] + 20250
roidradius[roid] = 1075

-- Creation
a = AddAsteroidWithAttribs(CoordX[roid],CoordY[roid],(math.random(45,90) / 100),(math.random(45,85) / 100),(math.random(30,70) / 100))
a.Owner = 1
a.TreeCap = 4
a:SetRadius(roidradius[roid])
a:Reveal(1)
a.Moveable = False
s = a:AddDysonTree()
s = a:AddDysonTree()
s = a:AddDysonTree()
a:AddSeedlings(62,1,0.25,0.01,0.01)
Lines 363 - 385.

"a.Owner = 1" sets the asteroid to be owned by Empire 1 (the player).
"a:AddSeedlings(62,1,0.25,0.01,0.01)" gives the player 62 seedlings with the specified strength, energy and speed.


If you wanted a different asteroid, just change one of the others to be yours, and add some seedlings on it.
You might also need to use the Reveal command, otherwise it will end up being the sort of friendly asteroid you "discover" later on.

[Daggaroth]

thank you for that =)

how do you tell which asteroids on the map correspond to the asteroid number?  ( ex: Asteroid "11" )

[annikk.exe]

It's kind of tricky to do that.  When you're building the map, you sort of build up an idea in your head about which asteroid number corresponds to which asteroid in the level.

The system used to generate the coords for each asteroid in Infinity is pretty complicated.  You will probably find it easiest to just use trial and error to figure out which is which...


If you look in the comments, I believe it says which asteroids are suns, comets, spacers, and normal habitable asteroids.  That should help narrow it down a bit.

[Luca]

thank you for this level annikk.exe, i really enjoyed it. the last time i played it i gathered all available seedlings (thousands) for the last battle (against the remaining enemy force of 65 )

here is a picture

[Pilchard123]

Did you win?

[Jazz Ad]

I'm over an hour and several tries into it, still not sure what's happening or how the universe is shape ut it's fun to play.

[Terrial]

Jeepers!  I just tried playing this from the community map pack.  SO HARD lol

The AI is just too smart to beat with my crappy starter seedlings lol

[blueskirt]

You are a god.

Rotating asteroids? Check.
Fending off waves of 400+ enemy seedlings? Check.

That mission is epic!

Terrial: Be happy the AI isn't smart enough to land his units on the big asteroid in front of your base before attacking, else the mission would be much harder. By attacking your base from the rotating asteroids, his units take longer you reach your base, the faster seedlings are easily defeated while they aren't accompanied by the slower seedlings, and the slower seedlings are easily defeated when the faster seedlings are gone. If he attacked from the big asteroid in front of your base, his seedlings would land in your base in a more packed formation, and it would be hell.

[Terrial]

To be honest I didn't get very far at all. I took 2 other asteroids and then the AI had like 70 seedlings and mine were like 1/4 the size of theirs.

[annikk.exe]

Cheers Blueskirt :>  Glad you enjoyed it.

[riotpatriot]

Holy hell, this is the only map I've raged at in the whole game. 

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When I started out, I went on dominating the current area when I found the rotating asteroid. I tried getting one onto it to see what happens, but I missed it, so I was thinking "oh well, maybe it'll return"

It did. With 90 enemy seedlings.  (I quit the match)

The second try I had 20 scouts on Transport A. I was monitoring the asteroid for quite a bit and found Transport B. 20 went from A to B. Found the enemy hive, went to the safety place, saw in horror that it just sent 100++ seedlings to transport B, found out I had only 30 seedlings at the starting area.  (quitted)

The third try I captured the upper 2 asteroids first (Just to save up on seedlings) and sent all (50-ish) to Transport A. Didn't hop from A to B. Found spikeland (sent a scout to the safe area). Found the land where they had some unoccupied space. Dyson'd the two just in time when my starting area got overrun. Had a happy family of 80-ish. Fended off waves of low-energy-but-high-attack-and-speed seedlings in 150's. Got to their main production house (with 8 trees), captured it. Received 500 enemy seedlings from transport B.  (also quitted)

Fourth try was the same as third, just that I managed to get better astroids (so much so that I made 2 defence trees on the first neighbouring asteroid to try to buy time). Didn't work. See try 3.  (quiiiiit)

After reading this thread, I thought maybe I should take things slowly. Made more dyson trees on the starting usual 3. Only managed 25 on A this time. Went on to attack spikeland. Broke the lone defence tree, but didn't have enough to sap. Quickly gathered the 100++ I had waiting for B. Got all of them to B while they started the attack. They capped the first 2 when I just arrived. Was racing against time to sap spikeland 1 when they capped my starting point. (too late to quit. crashed)

Thanks for making me WANT to win this! It's hard, REALLY hard, but hopefully luck and timing is on my side on one of the rematches.
(and yes, I might tweak the starting asteroid stats to cheat a bit. I'll be keeping the original map)

[blueskirt]

Don't be scared by the big numbers. It's not that hard when you remember some facts:

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-1- The defending player always has the advantage over the attacking player
-2- The tighter the attacking formation is, the more effective the attack will be

The key to win this mission is to keep these two facts in mind and pay attention to what happens when an army, any army, get on/off the moving asteroids. I took my time, it took me around an hour and half but I finished it on my first try.

[annikk.exe]

Thanks for playing, Riotpatriot.  :>

One thing I would suggest is

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try to charge the enemy at the start - build 1 tree on each asteroid, the minimum you need to reach them - and try to take over 1 asteroid from them immedietely with your remaining crappy forces and whatever seedlings grow on the trees you planted to get there.  You should be able to take it from them, and that will immedietely put you at an advantage in terms of the number of asteroids you have access to - it cuts them off from the rest of the home galaxy.

Take control of your home galaxy as quickly as possible.  The enemy will probably send about 50-150 seedlings to attack you after about 12 mins of game time has passed.  Assuming you have completely colonised your home galaxy by this point, send all the seedlings you can onto the comet as soon as the enemy attacks.  Sure, they'll take an asteroid or two from you, but because they have to sacrifice so many seedlings to bomb a core, they will swiftly run out of steam after 1-2 asteroids.  As soon as they've taken one of your asteroids, move all your forces to another friendly asteroid and look to see where they are attacking next.  Later on, when they send 500+ seedlings per wave, this tactic becomes less viable.

When you have that under control, take a look at the comet.  Leave your seeds on it, don't jump onto the other comet as you pass it.  Skip the first galaxy you come to (the one with all the defensive trees).  Get your seedlings onto the galaxy opposite your home galaxy, and try to colonise that.  The earlier you can get a decent amount of seedlings up there, the greater chance you have of successfully prising it from the grasp of the infected.

Hope this helps.. :>

[blueskirt]

Strange. I'd suggest the complete opposite.

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Take control of your home galaxy ASAP as you suggested, then you turtle. You hoard a massive army on the big, inner most asteroid. Whenever the comet appears in your screen with the enemy's massive army, you move your army back in your home galaxy.

The trick now is to play with the AI. If you split your troops evenly in between the asteroids that are threatened by the comet, the AI will be scared and won't attack. You don't want him to do that. If he doesn't attack, all the units that didn't attack you this time will be added to the next wave. You want him to attack you now, while his army is weak. There are 3 asteroids that are threatened by the comet:

The big, inner most asteroid you cannot plant a tree on (the AI never attack this one)
And two asteroids in your home galaxy.

Move your army on one of the two asteroids, leave the other empty, to bait the AI into attacking it. When he takes the bait, quickly move your army on the asteroid he's attacking.

You see, the comet screw up the attacking formation. Every units will need more time to reach your asteroid, the slowest units can land on your planet 2 minutes after the attack was initiated. 500+ enemy seedlings charging you might be scary on paper, but attacking with 500+ units, when the attacking formation is spread on a column that will take 2 minutes for all units to reach the target, is entirely pointless, the enemy may as well be attacking with 100 waves of 5 units each, most of the enemy seedlings will be obliterated the moment they'll enter your asteroid's atmosphere. By the end of the battle, your enemy will have lost 10-20 times more units than you did. It's a lot like the battle of Thermopylae.

Keep on turtling until you have 700 seedlings. The next time the enemy attacks, move 350 seedlings on the comet and keep 350 at home to defend your base. Don't worry if the enemy tries to attack the comet your army is on, defending the comet is just as easy as defending from an attack launched from it.

Go in the top left corner of the galaxy, land your units on the big, inner most asteroid in front of the enemy base. If you're lucky enough, the enemy might even move all his units on the comet, leaving his base completely defenseless. Don't make the same mistake as the enemy and wait for all your units to land on the big asteroid before attacking his base. If the enemy base is too well defended, just wait for the comet to come back, the enemy will move his army on it, giving you the opportunity to attack

When you've conquered it, turtle a bit and launch another 350+ seedlings attack on the base in the top right corner, then the bottom left corner, repeating the same thing you did in the above paragraph.

That's it. The moment you realize the comet screw up with the attacking formation, all those 500+ seedlings waves stop being scary.

[naschi]

best map ever... but it crashed after finishing it

[BC wins]

best map ever... but it crashed after finishing it

yeh indeed
i player it al out and won was really awesome
all those comments make it look so hard when it's not

but when i won and the 3 minute show started after a little bit of time the game crashed

[annikk.exe]

Keep the crash reports coming.  Still no idea what exactly has broken following the latest game patch.  Thankfully it only happens at the end and doesn't interrupt players during the level itself.  Other levels like Return To Fluffy Land are completely broken.

[Ytaker]

I had a crash too. Weirdly, I didn't have a crash when in a later replay, I used developer's mode.

[Jazz Ad]

I just wanted to point out that I finally managed to beat this level, which makes me kinda proud of myself.
It was a lot of fun. Thanks.

[annikk.exe]

Thanks for playing! :>

Hopefully your experience was good, and it didn't crash on you, as others have been reporting..

[Aino]

This map is damned hard, but I destroyed the map, litterally cause it crashed when I won xD

[Jazz Ad]

No crash issue for me.
The map quickly reaches the 4096 =seedling hard limit.
In this situation, the engine is prone to crashing.

[Don]

...oh, now that, was inspiring -- this level was one of the best strategy games I've ever had
the pleasure to play, excellent work! Being a crossover/wine user, I'm a bit belated getting
around to this (we were borked behind the need for .net service pack supports), but now
winecore has such, Eufloria behaves exceptionally well with wine on linux...and licking this
custom level, -has- to be one of the pinnacles of the game itself....

...that said, (and why I'm posting here), is wrt the lock-up event described above ; in linux
using crossover 11 (close to wine-1.4), that's a routine mishap with this level, in fact, it's
about the -only- place Eufloria crashes on the current winecore. The crash happens for me
at 2 places -- when you fail miserably and the universe flies apart and asteroids start gravitating
about, and, when you actually beat the thing and the universe rejoices and asteroids start
moving about. I see it firstly as a .NET error, which once dismissed results in eufloria.exe
itself crashing out, and one ends up needing to kill that process to regain sanity...

...mind you, any way you look at it, tackling this level, and winning == a game of some long
duration, and somewhere along the way you should actually learn to know when the AI has
you licked, and it's best to back out and start the level again ; that, works fine without any
issues, so no big deal... would've been nice to see things spin out for 3minutes instead of
3seconds  tho' at the end, having finally won  =)...

.... great stuff..

[annikk.exe]

Thanks Don!  Glad to hear you've got your Wine issues sorted.  :>

[Blomljud]

Annikk thank you for adding many hours of extra fun to Eufloria!
I just finished Invinity and I loved it!!!
After I finished the game it crashed (short after showing the message to enjoy the next 3 minutes).
Well that is nog big deal. I had tons of fun with it.
 

Blomljud.