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[Jamski]

Pretty poor score, eh?

Probably not a good idea to go an a gas rampage early on.

Your powergraph looks pretty familiar Googlie. I thought I had it in the can at around this point. Hell, I even had the VW and HGP, and the Spartans on the floor (despite a real mess around the ruins - its hell attacking through fungus with 'liths around before D:AP, but its was better than having them come to me all the time)

Then it went so wild.

I should make some screenshots to show just how many worms and locusts I was facing. Enough to eliminate all my bases except the last one that drowned.

I'm so lame - getting a negative score on my own map.

-Jam

[Mongoose]

Suggest deleting initial file, Jamski. I just DLd in error.

[Jamski]

Done

-Jam

[Net Warrior]

Originally posted by Jamski


By normal means, in SMAC with latest patch. All victory conditions are open.

Obstructor, it sounds like you have that error where you change the energy production of a tile while crawling it, which causes the map data to corrupt.

-Jam

I'm having the same problem. I've crashed 3 times at 2190. I tried resetting all the crawlers just before I hit turn complete but that didn't help. Help!

[Jamski]

Strange. I've not done anything unusual with the settings...

Well, if there's no way around the crashing (I played till 220x without crashes) then I'll accept incomplete games for the score.

You'll need the latest SMAC patch, but I suppose you have that anyway

-Jam

[binTravkin]

I played this game just for fun and found NO FUN in it as I won so badly, they even couldnt get ANY unit xcept a few probe teams to my bases..
And those probes were there only because I was growing tired and it was no fun to fight them..
Will upload my turn (MY. 2228) and some pics in a few minutes..

There's what I did:

1.No cheating (stockpile, retro-eng etc.) except SE switching to low Industry when adding Crawlers to SPs.

2.Didnt try to go for IA ASAP!

3.Didnt give any tech for free to AI - instead I required 25 credits from them, which made a total of 125ec/tech (Miriam doesnt pay)

4.After Rectanx, commons and max number of CPs (nowhere to expand anymore), built 6 MWs, which are VERY good units indeed if running Green - they add new numbers to your army, create ecs & dont require support if in fungus (where they actually were ).

5.Run Green/Wealth and instated Demo only after all CPs were settled (~2170).

6.Instated FM in 2226 as maintenace costs for mu Facilities became annoying.

7.Attacked Santi and then Lal with MWs - Santi was dead in 2180 other status at 2228:
Lal - 1 base (didn sight it, so my MWs went to other place)
Hive - 1/2 bases (that half which by the Mount Planet)
Gaia - 2 bases
Believers - 1/2 bases (that half on other continent)
CEO - conquered 1 base, but then lost it due to lack of reinforcements. Seems other half of Morganites has been eliminated..

8.Built almost all SPs except 3 from which 2 I later captured & am going to capture the 3rd too!

Uploads follow

[binTravkin]

At 1st:
Jamski, WHAT IS THAT???
It has stats of 3-1-1 and when it attacks, game says: "hand weapons"
Also it moves like MW
I captured some 7-9 of them - as unit theure COMPLETELY useless..

[binTravkin]

My graphs:

[binTravkin]

Sorry - I mistaked, its 2238..

Cute pic here:

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=47802_sps_gotm.jpg

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I've gone the ak the conquerer route and didn't even try building. Its going fairly well considering by 2200 I still don't have IA, MMI, or Planetery Econ.

I Skipped all SP's exept Virtual World and set about conquering using 4-1-1's and infantry transports.

I now have D:AP and look forward to cleaning up and linking up.

Lal eradicated. Santi one site is gone (haven't found the second landing yet) Yang one site is gone (holding action on the second until Noodles are in plentiful supply. About to take Dee's one site complete with Weather Paradimg and Command Nexxus.

No real action as of yet against Morgie or Miriam. (But soon)

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by binTravkin
At 1st:
Jamski, WHAT IS THAT???
It has stats of 3-1-1 and when it attacks, game says: "hand weapons"
Also it moves like MW
I captured some 7-9 of them - as unit theure COMPLETELY useless..

Jamski probably tried to give this NL unit a superior weapon. However, there is some hardcoding here that won't let a CMN give NL's superior weapons, thus it defaults to a weapons class of "3".
As far as the icon is concerned, it is located in the same pictures file as the MW's, Battle Ogres, and other units. I believe it was originally intended to be the icon for the Cloudbase, but once the developers realized the AI's couldn't handle Cloudbases appropriately, they shelved the unit.

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[Jamski]

Ah, that would explain why it never works...

BinTravkin - congratulations. I think a momentum approach is probably going to work better than my failed builder-hybrid attempts.

What was your final score? I guess you're in first place so far

I must admit I never even considered going Green + MWs, but especially vs the bases Santi throws up around the ruins, it would really be a wise move...

Nicely done

-Jam

[CEO Aaron]

Okay, you'd better start posting some early turns, because every time I'm playing it, the AI is in my face before I can make a former, scout and colony pod.

[Jamski]

Well, as soon as I contacted the AI I offered tech as a gift. That kept them off my back for a while.

I'm starting by rushing formers ASAP, then making farms for growth so I can rush CPs as soon as possible.

And by as soon as possible, I mean really the moment I have enough cash.

It helps to get lucky with the pod by University base. A monolith or special is good, a rover is nice too

-Jam

[Illuminatus]

Okay, Jamski what is this? When I popped pod, it gave me ogre popup, from which I learned the unit is named " !".

It has statistics of scout unit patrol, and acts as such