Goonhub
08-02-2016, 09:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2016, 10:00 PM by Roomba. Edited 1 time in total.)
I think he meant starting out in space and getting to 500 without ever touching the station. The syndie outpost and other asteroids have been blocked from blob spawning, but my guess is the research outpost was overlooked because it's new.
As for the round ending at 500 tiles I've always seen it as more of a mercy kill of the round. Depending on where and how the blob spread calling the shuttle could range from prohibitively difficult to practically impossible at that point. Plus like you said, once you reach 500 tiles there's functionally no way for surviving crew to stop the blob short of a near-miraculous turnaround, so there's no real reason to keep on spreading either. in fact it should probably be the same for late-joining blobs too.
As for the round ending at 500 tiles I've always seen it as more of a mercy kill of the round. Depending on where and how the blob spread calling the shuttle could range from prohibitively difficult to practically impossible at that point. Plus like you said, once you reach 500 tiles there's functionally no way for surviving crew to stop the blob short of a near-miraculous turnaround, so there's no real reason to keep on spreading either. in fact it should probably be the same for late-joining blobs too.