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Gurduloo wrote: I was a playing a quick skirmish last night and getting pouned early on by AI tanks.  So I built up my cannon forces and just about had the upper hand.  But then I noticed a lone AI cyborg shooting at one of my light cannon bunkers.  The bunker was busy shooting at something else, so I sent a couple light cannon and minipod tanks after the cyborg.  They had almost no effect on that guy!  They must have spent 3 or 4 minutes shooting at him.  Eventually I researched flamer cyborgs and sent them to finish him off, but it was funny to see one lone guy standing perfectly still in an open field taking one direct cannon hit after another and not even flinching!  I'm guessing this is part of the rock-scissors-paper balancing...

Gurduloo wrote: ...
But then I noticed a lone AI cyborg shooting at one of my light cannon bunkers.  The bunker was busy shooting at something else, so I sent a couple light cannon and minipod tanks after the cyborg.  They had almost no effect on that guy!  They must have spent 3 or 4 minutes shooting at him.  Eventually I researched flamer cyborgs and sent them to finish him off, but it was funny to see one lone guy standing perfectly still in an open field taking one direct cannon hit after another and not even flinching!  I'm guessing this is part of the rock-scissors-paper balancing...

kage wrote: eventually, imo, our goal should be to make it so that one heavy tank shell will take out any normal cyborg in one hit, but that they'd be almost impossible to hit using a tank if they're moving, and extremely difficult to hit otherwise.