turn 2200 - the end

[Kataphraktoi]

nope, bint is inactive. vyeh, just pm chaos theory and tell him you are turnplayer and give him status at end of turn, all data you would give a close ally. i tell him everything, basicly

[vyeh]

I tried playing the turn. Unfortunately, SMAX (Carbon) crashed when I tried saving a turn for this forum. I have to go out. I'll probably get a reload warning when I try to play again. If Herc doesn't want to play, I can do it again. I took notes to put on this forum.

A very quick summary. On opening the turn, I was given a choice of techs to research. Didn't really matter, but I chose Bioadaptive Resonance for the soporific ability.

Snowflake's Haven built a HQ! I designed a fusion rover supply and upgraded all supply crawlers in production for free.

Drone Riot at Communal Nexus. Took a 1-1-2 worker and changed to doctor.

Drone Riot at Delirium camp. Took 1-1 and made thinker. Turned doctor to thinker.

Switched around patrolling aircraft after patroling out and back.

Hunger at Snowflake's Haven solved by moving worker from Gemka's Loft from monument and switching a 1-2-1 worker from SH to monument.

Attacked 2 mindworms and FT outside Alphanville at superior odds and won all battles, taking varying amount of damage.

Probe operation at Chiron base for research, was discovered, but per our agreement with Gaians, said stern rebuke.

Let me know if you want me to do the turn again.

Will be back in 5 or so hours.

[vyeh]

Since there are no replies, here is an endturn save if anyone is interested.

[vyeh]

There was a slight glitch in posting to the turn tracking thread as I hadn't hit the turn complete button. I guess the reason the turnplayer thread said to not make the last move before posting a save to the private forum was the assumption that the game was automatically set to complete the turn as soon as the last move was made.

In replaying the turn, we didn't get the ecological damage and thus no mindworms to increase the morale of our air units.

Other than that, I repeated what I mentioned above. Where there was the possibility of ecological damage (Fungal Heights and Snowflake Heaven), I rearranged workers to eliminate the possibility. It didn't affect the time to completion.

My thoughts:

(1) Discuss with the Gaians the possibility of sending a PB and escorting aircraft to Spartan Command. I envision sending a force diagonally up and to the right from our territory and maybe coordinated with forces going up from Gaian territory.

(2) Do some infrastructure (Rec Commons, Recycling Center, formers) where we can.

[GeoModder]

Why did you had to replay the turn? Couldn't you simply do that last move and then hit the end turn button?

OTOH, me pressing "turn complete" doesn't generate a save. What's wrong here?

[vyeh]

SMAX crashed on me and I lost the whole turn.

I have a Mac. Maybe there is a slight difference. After I press "turn complete", a dialog box comes up asking me for the name I want for the saved turn. It automatically puts in "-Spartans-". I have to hit enter to get the save.

[GeoModder]

You have the endsaves you posted here -and in the turn tracking thread. There was no need to replay it completely again.

But they didn't work on me, perhaps it's because you play on a mac.

Oh well, it's already water under the bridge.

[vyeh]

The crash occurred while I was trying to create an endsave for this forum.

I used the endsave posted here when I was fixing the problem for the Turn Tracking Thread.

[Hercules]

Sorry for being absent. I caught a hell of a cold. Only now recovering.

[vyeh]

Geo,

I have two versions of Crossfire: one came from Firaxis and the other is a Carbonized version I downloaded from the net. The carbonized version runs faster on OS X.

I've taken the beginning Angel turn and performed a couple of game actions (chose Bioadaptive response as the next tech to research and designed a fusion rover supply for Snowflake Haven to build) and then saved it using the Firaxis version.

Could you download it and try to save it?

If it works, I'll use the Firaxis version. Speed isn't an issue in turnplaying. If it doesn't, maybe Herc will have to do the honors.

Thanks.

[GeoModder]

Negative. It's like the previous save. I can't complete the turn.

[vyeh]

Herc,

Maybe the best solution is for you to download form the Turn Tracking Thread the beginning of the turn I played, replay it and post it.

It's too bad about this Mac/PC incompatibility.

[GeoModder]

What he said.

[Kataphraktoi]

Yeah I guess we could have declared ourselves Supreme Leader already if it weren't for those ever-enduring sunspots due to the year being stuck.

Maniac raised a good point...shall we push for a game-over?

[vyeh]

I'm posting a midturn save (2204). This save takes care of a Spartan F-8 near Communal Nexus and a FT and 3 mw infestation near Gemka's Loft. I've also gone through the bases and tried to optimize production.

The turn began with a notification of three battle losses:
1) Chaos Needlejet near Laborer's Throng to Spartan F-8
2) Chaos Penetrator near Social Engineering Den "
3) Chaos Tactical near Communal Nexus "

The first 2 were scouts on the Gaian side. The Spartans have really expanded over there.

The third was an attack on Communal Nexus, leaving the F-8 next to Communal Nexus. We attacked the 80% damaged F-8 with a Chaos Tactical and won.

We designed an X Fusion Tactical <10x>-1-9*2, SAM, Nerve Gas and a X Fusion Needlejet 10x-1-10*2, Nerve Gas. We need the extra 50% from the nerve gas and a little more atrocity to our notorious reputation won't hurt us.

In the attack on the FT and the 3 mw's, we lost one Chaos Penetrator. (The odds were 15-5, the mw ended up 80% damaged and it managed to inflict 30% damage on a follow-up Chaos Penetrator at 150-11 odds!)

We hurried the Aerospace Complex at Communal Nexus for 100 ec (since the Spartans have already probed Communal Nexus). We assigned Fungal Heights to prototyping the X Fusion Tactical and cashed in 2 supply crawlers. The prototype will be done next turn.

Googlieplex is assigned to prototype the X fusion penetrator. This will take 2 or 3 turns.

I still have to do the military moves.

Unless someone else wants to do the turn, I'll post a turn to the Turn Tracking Thread in 6 or 7 hours. It would be nice to find a solution that doesn't involve a CMN having to download my save, open it up, resave the game and email it to the Spartans, but the Spartans seem to be enjoying their conquest and I'm learning.

As I understand it, the problem seems to be that 1) I'm using a Mac and 2) the Spartans are using Windows XP. Apparently Macs can talk to Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 can talk to Windows XP. Who did the XP patch anyway?