Can someone explain what happened to me?

[Chris Woods]

Hey all,

Recently dusted off Alpha Centauri after acquiring the expansion pack and was playing along great as the Cyborgs (dan't remember the faction name off hand, sorry.)

I had been dumped on an island with no one else and enough room to get a few bases squeezed together, so that was my immediate goal. I used a pretty common tactic from the old days, nothing but forests and geting tree farms in all my bases. I was also able to get every secret project but Genome and Command Matrix.

And then, completly out of the blue, all of my 9 bases dissappeared with all their garrisons, all my formers vanished and I was given 3 colony pods, 3 sentinels and a former to "continue." I choose to quit instead, as losing nine bases and all my projects was simply to much to bear.

Why did this happen? I didn't get any message and it seems so specific of an event to just be a bug.

Any help appreciated.

Chris Woods

[Lefty Scaevola]

Something cause you to be eliminated and restart. Most often this is by aciidently enter the keystroke to resign a game (shift Q) when the restart option is toggled on. I have seen 2 or 3 other instances of a bug casing this. IF you have eliminated another faction and captured its leader, and another faction tries a probe action to free the leader, it has in the 2 or 3 other instances I have heard somecause your the capturing rather than the captured faction to be "rescued"

[Frankychan]

wow. that sucks man. never heard of that happening before.

You see new things every so often here in the SMAC forum.

[Flubber]

Ouch-- never ever happened to me--

[Uchuu-kun[SM42]]

o/~ Oh where, oh where can my bases be
A bug took 'em away from me
Play Autosave 1 'cause I got to do good
And keep all of my bases just the way they should... be. o/~

[Alex]

Definitely weird.

[CEO Aaron]

This is why I don't play Iron Man. Jump to your last good autosave and resume.

[Method]

i thought i've seen a thread about this before. don't remember what it was though, try a search perhaps.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by TKG
i thought i've seen a thread about this before. don't remember what it was though, try a search perhaps.

this thread.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6783