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Pop drop buffer overflow

Fri, 16 January 2004 13:06

mlaub

Lieutenant

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Location: MN, USA

Hi

Anyone know what the exact, or safe, cutoff is for dropping pop on an enemy planet? I now know that 6.3 million is too many... Wink

Thanks
-Matt

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Re: Pop drop buffer overflow

Sat, 17 January 2004 18:49

mlaub

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Location: MN, USA

Quote:

I now know that 6.3 million is too many.

- Did some quick testing, and didn't have an issue pop dropping with up to 7.5 million peeps...That isn't a cutoff, I just stopped there. Weird. So, this is either a one long time *event* (luck of the draw type thing), or it's tied to some other factor.

- Less learned, don't drop more pop than you need too... Huh.

-Matt

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Re: Pop drop buffer overflow

Sat, 17 January 2004 21:29

Sotek

Chief Warrant Officer 2

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Registered: November 2002

It may be related to the defenses of the target world.

As, I believe, they multiply the number of defenders, instead of dividing the number of attackers.

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Re: Pop drop buffer overflow

Sun, 18 January 2004 13:24

iztok

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Location: Slovenia, Europe

mlaub wrote on Fri, 16 January 2004 19:06

Hi

Anyone know what the exact, or safe, cutoff is for dropping pop on an enemy planet? I now know that 6.3 million is too many... Wink

I've meet that bug before. 've lost about 5M pop of 8.4M dropped to his 100. So I started splitting from my orgy a fleet with about 10% more pop I needed to safely invade, with the rest of the fleet just waiting in orbit to drop the pop after the planet was taken.
Anyway, if you opponent isn't IS, then multiply his pop with 4 to get the planet through any defense.
BR, Iztok

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