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  • Can a Monolith disappear?

    I'm playing my second SMAC (Patch 4) game as Gaians on Specialist level. I captured a neighbouring Believers' base which had a Monolith adjacent to the base square. I repaired two damaged mindworms and a conventional unit at the Monolith. In the next turn, the Monolith simply disappeared!

    Has anyone else come across this phenomenon? Is there a maximum on the number of times a Monolith can be used per turn?

  • #2
    Monoliths have a set chance for disappearance every time they are used. I beleive it is something like 1/32 probability the monolith will disappear. Cold happen the first time you use or the 100th time you use it.

    Og
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    • #3
      Thanks for the info, OO. Is this documented? I don't have the manual so I'm finding things out from the downloadable guides and by trial and error (applying many of the principles of Civ2).

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      • #4
        IIRC its not in the manual.

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        • #5
          IIRC, monoliths have a certain number of randomly generated "uses." After a monolith is "used" up it simply disappears.
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          • #6
            Thanks for the previous thread reference, TKG.

            I think this forum could do with a systematic compilation of undocumented features as well as the distilled wisdom of past posters ala Civ2's Great Library. Any Thinker/Librarians game for the task?

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