crawler, SPs and multiplayer

[bondetamp]

Over the last few weeks I've played a couple of SMAX multiplayer over LAN.

My crawlers seem to be unable to add their full mineral value to the base's secrt project.

I usually build a cheap crawler, then I upgrade it to best armour and some other expensive things like drop pods or clean reactors, before I take them into the SP-building base and disband them.

This works fabolously in single player, but, alas, not in multiplayer. Is this how it is supposed to be, or am I doing something wrong?

[Aredhran]

By "disbanding", do you mean you actually press Shift+D when the crawler is active in the base ? I have never tried it that way, but maybe that's what your problem is.

Try this: When your crawler arrives in the base where the project is being built, a menu will pop up offering you the option to rush the construction. Choose that and you'll see the full value added.

Aredhran

[bondetamp]

quote: Originally posted by Aredhran on 02-22-2000 04:26 AMTry this: When your crawler arrives in the base where the project is being built, a menu will pop up offering you the option to rush the construction. Choose that and you'll see the full value added. Aredhran

Not in multiplayer.

Not as far as I know, anyway.

[tfs99]

In MP IP SMAC/X games you must use the 'O' key to pop-up the crawler menu manually. Then you can get full minerals for your crawlers.

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