Can a base be starved to death?

[MariOne]

Gwill, I'd like to point out that contrary to what you say I did NOT deviate from the original question.

Indeed mine was the ONLY reply strictly on topic.

The other posters correctly reported that you CAN'T *STARVE* a size-1 base, you can only *abandon* it by building the last Colony Pod.
Abandoning sorts the same effect in practice, but strictly speaking it's not like starving...

I was the only one to suggest the only way which *in theory* could bring to *starve* a size-1 base (apart from the random *uncontrollable* negative event reported by thread starter).
Whether *in practice* it is then easy or convenient to do it that way, this is quite a different matter.
I didn't even bother to check if the game actually *allows* that effect to take place, or if some safety mechanisms interrupts at last moment the orders convoying nutrients out of the starving base...

[Clear Skies]

Of course, if you have the Planetary Transit system, a size-1 base in an awkward position can be replaced by a size-3 base in a much better position...
The PTS is a pretty cool SP, if you ask me. Used correctly, you can create massive amounts of population seemingly out of thin air - great for kicking that evil AI out of the Planetary Governor seat

[Cybergod]

Plus add the Empath Guild...

I remember that there was a rule in patched SMAC that if modified lets you obliterate bases without it counting as atrocities. Do I recall this correctly?

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by Cybergod
I remember that there was a rule in patched SMAC that if modified lets you obliterate bases without it counting as atrocities. Do I recall this correctly?

I don't recall if it was in the original release or included in a patch, but yes, there is a switch in alpha.txt and in alphax.txt, which when changed between 0 and 1 sets obliteration to not be an atrocity

[gwillybj]

I screwed it up again

MariOne You are correct!
I humbly admit my error
The conversation is a bit convoluted, and I did not read carefully or think clearly before writing.

[Spacecow]

stating the obvious

An enemy unit could finish a size one city off... I'm not sure if a probe team can 'genetic warfare' a city to oblivion or not.

[Cybergod]

Re: stating the obvious

Originally posted by Spacecow
An enemy unit could finish a size one city off... I'm not sure if a probe team can 'genetic warfare' a city to oblivion or not.

You can also kill a size 1 city by attacking units in it with Nerve Gas (no matter how many units in the city)

[MariOne]

OR... kill a size TWO base with Nerve Gas, if there's only one defender in base (1 citizen lost for halving b/c of gas, 1 lost b/c last dfeender killed. Buster found out this one).
It should even work with single-garrisoned size THREE base (as gassed populatilon is rounded *down*, gas makes size 3 become 1...), but I never tested it.

As you can't gas your own bases, all this has nothing to do with the topic