In a recent game I started near the Unity Crash site on the huge map of planet (I started at the bottom of the freshwater sea). the gaians were my neighbors to the north along pholus ridge, but quite a ways off. My bases briskly expanded around the freshwater sea and that's when I saw the crash site.
I thought: cool! I've never collected the goodies from the crash site before! So I sent a rover to merrily sweep up the fusion core, the beacon with the other faction's comm links, and so on.
But when I got there: NOTHING!!!
What's going on? I had to send my rover a full NINE squares north from the crash site to find the first Gaian base, and they sure didn't have rovers yet. Since I haven't ever been the first to the crash site, I don't actually know what happens when you get there, so will someone kindly enlighten me as to the follwing:
1) is collecting the aforementioned goodies as simple as moving a unit onto the square that contains the item, such as the beacon or the core?
2) are all the items present in all the games, or is it random?
3) if it appears that the Gaians did beat me to it, is this characteristic of the AI? To beeline for the crashsite even though they supposedly don't know its there?
thanks
ALSO: off topic, can someone also let me in on what "double blind" and LOL mean? Yes, you can chuckle at my ignorance, but chuckle while you type the answer, O.K.?![](http://apolyton.net/forums/smile.gif)
[This message has been edited by karu-san (edited February 15, 2001).]
I thought: cool! I've never collected the goodies from the crash site before! So I sent a rover to merrily sweep up the fusion core, the beacon with the other faction's comm links, and so on.
But when I got there: NOTHING!!!
What's going on? I had to send my rover a full NINE squares north from the crash site to find the first Gaian base, and they sure didn't have rovers yet. Since I haven't ever been the first to the crash site, I don't actually know what happens when you get there, so will someone kindly enlighten me as to the follwing:
1) is collecting the aforementioned goodies as simple as moving a unit onto the square that contains the item, such as the beacon or the core?
2) are all the items present in all the games, or is it random?
3) if it appears that the Gaians did beat me to it, is this characteristic of the AI? To beeline for the crashsite even though they supposedly don't know its there?
thanks
ALSO: off topic, can someone also let me in on what "double blind" and LOL mean? Yes, you can chuckle at my ignorance, but chuckle while you type the answer, O.K.?
![](http://apolyton.net/forums/smile.gif)
[This message has been edited by karu-san (edited February 15, 2001).]
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