Prime Function's Office - Turnplay Discussion

[Maniac]

I'd like to suggest we use a seperate thread to make comments about the recently played turn, instead of constantly polluting the official report thread with messages which need to be deleted after a while. This thread could also be used to make small tips to our Prime Function which don't deserve a seperate thread.

As for MY 2115:

• Drogue, you shouldn't move the garrison out of a base which has 20000 or more citizens. As a consequence we will have drone riots in Pi Square next turn.
• Personally I'd vote to switch the production in Pi Square to a colony pod, to build a new base in the north. What is everybody else's opinion on that?

[Drogue]

First thing, great idea for the thread. I should have done this earlier.

On the first point: Sorry about that, I somehow thought that it was 3 that gives drone riots The scout will arrive next turn though, so we will have 1 turn of riots. I am sorry about that.

On the second point: I disagree, I think another former would make growth and production so much quicker, that it would be worth it, changing to a CP straight after. The former will be quicker with the extra person, so we get a former and CP quicker than if we did it the other way round. I will post a poll.

[Drogue]

Thread has been topped. This thread is primarily for discussing Turn Reports or for bring something to the attention of the Prime Function. As such, the name has been altered. If you want somethign to be done in our faction, post it here

[Maniac]

I have bad news. One of my brothers, who no longer live at home, visited us today. He brought along his laptop and showed me a few things in SMAC, using my SMAX disk to start the game. When he left however, he forgot to remove the disk out of his CD ROM reader. I just discovered this, of course two hours after he left. So now I have no SMAX CD; I'll have to wait until he visits again before I get it again. I've phoned him of course, but in the meanwhile I'm without CD so I will not be able to access the save file, or play the turn when Drogue is unavailable.

(So I'd love to see screenshots of the base screens to know what's going on and help our faction. )

[Corellion]

Ouch.

You could always download one of the no-CD cracks to use whilst you await your brother's return.

[Drogue]

Maniac: I will make sure I post screenshots every turn now then, and as I am on holiday, there is no time I can see in the next few weeks when I will be unable to play. However if something comes up at the last minute, would anyone be prepared to be the backup? Corellion perhaps? Chaunk? TKG or Bookwyrm?

[Googlie]

Maniac:

You can d/l the no-cd crack from Rynn's Gallery - I have it running on both my desktop and my laptop, with nary a problem

G.

[Corellion]

I'd be willing to play the backup if necessary.

[Maniac]

If using that crack, can I just make a backup of the original terranx, copy the crack over it, and when I have my CD back, just recopy the original over the crack without having to reinstall my entire game? If I would have to reinstall, it's not worth the trouble of having to search and backup my modifications IMHO and I'd rather just wait, as besides for the ACDG I no longer play SMAC actually.

[Googlie]

M:

Yes - the crack is just a revised terranx.exe file

Just copy the original to somewhere before you overwrite it, then as you say, you can at any time replace it with the original terranx.exe file (though why anyone would want to I don't know)

G.

[Maniac]

(though why anyone would want to I don't know)

*shrugs* I thought I once read somewhere that with the crack the game crashed sometimes.

[Drogue]

Maniac: If you don't want to have to reinstall, you could just copy the crack to a different place, and install it there (maybe a different partition if you have it) so it doesn't overwrite your version. That means when you get the CD back, you just delete the crack and use the old version.

[Drogue]

Although you can post orders here, and I will read them, I thought it would be better to start a thread specifically for orders. This thread is for any discussion or anything else that needs the Prime Functions attention, the orders thread is purely for elected officials to post orders for turnplay.

[Googlie]

[Maniac]

The crack works ok. Thanks Googlie.