Patch Doesn't Work!!!!!!!!!

[mikek8]

I recently decided to go back and play a game of TOT. The evil Germans reached Alpha Centauri before I did. Fine. I was only about 10 years behind them. When I did arrive, the game did not give me any colonists or marines! I was able to research the superstring theory after the Germans arrived, however. Later, the English arrived and they didn't get any colonist or marines either. Then the Zulus. Same thing. I DO HAVE the patched version of TOT! Before the patch, I not only didn't get any colonist or marines, but I couldn't research the superstring theory. A friend of mine has noticed the same thing. In a game he was playing, he was the first to get AC and got colonists and marines. He said that the English landed after he did and got nothing. In fact, he said that after taking the English capitol several turns later, a message told him "English Spaceship Recalled"! What is going on with this game? Is there another patch that I don't know about? Help!

[DarthVeda]

As far as I know, only the FIRST person to arrive at AC gets free stuff... other than that, I'm not sure.

[mikek8]

Do you mean that only the first civilization to land gets access to Alpha Centauri? That doesn't sound like fun. Is there another way to get to AC other than with the spaceship?

[DarthVeda]

I think so... look in the archives and old threads in this forum... I'm pretty sure this has been discussed.

[SandMonkey]

just research ultrastring theory, and then you can build a teleporter. You can then use units that are designated with the *can use teleporter* option, and send them up to alpha centauri. Make sure you match of the terrain types (by looking at the above map), so you have land on top of land. If you build one that has water above it, you won't be able to use the teleporter.

[DaveP]

You also need to research Quantum Transport so you can build Colonists to build the teleporters (according to my tech poster, only Colonists (human) or Mupbu (alien) can build them). Not certain, but I don't think you can build a teleporter site if there isn't land at both ends of it.

Dave

[Tuna]

Can you go back to the old version when you patchd the game?

[SandMonkey]

I am really not sure... yo uwould need someone to send you the original .exe... but why do you want to "un-patch" your game?

[DaveP]

If you prefer using a version with known bugs to one with bugfixes I'm sure you could. You could probably just reinstall it from your original CD/disc, but you might have to uninstall it to get it to work. At worst, you could format your hard drive and reinstall everything, including the unpatched TOT, from scratch. I guess it all depends on how bad you want the unpatched version.