theval wrote on Sun, 25 May 2014 14:22

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There's still a lot of things poorly understood and hard to replicate exactly in a clone.

I'm curious what this could be...

* The AIs, for starters, though most people won't miss them if they're replaced with anything that works.

* The Battleboard has random and non-random components which nobody has entirely explained.

* Plenty of "little" roundoff and integer-math artifacts that keep things like pop growth from being exact.

* The MT, wormholes and other random events' exact randomness.

* Minehit damage allocation exact workings. We think we know all the wrinkles, but...

* The exact freakin' mineral depletion mechanics.