Murderous probe team

[Leon Trotsky]

This happened to me when playing against the AI:

I wanted to infiltrate a friendly faction datalinks. No tech steal, no energy drain, just an innocent intelligence operation (well, as innocent probe teams can get). I sent my probe team to the nearest base, which had a population of one. The only unit in it was a probe team. A probe team duel began, I won... and the base was destroyed. I feel guilty now.

[BlackCat]

Don't be a sissy - did your team at least manage to get the datalink up before they raided the city ?

Edit:damn spelling ¤%(!!!

[Senethro]

Heh, thats hilarious.

[Kataphraktoi]

can you upload a sav?

[xalien]

Lol, that's gotta be annoying, damaged probe and no base to infiltrate.
I remember in one of my older games I equiped my probe with nerve gas and attacked the probe sitting in the base. Now that was some mass murder

[bluetemplar]

Heh! Yet another bug in SmacX !

[Leon Trotsky]

I don't know whether to call it a bug or an unexpected feature.

And no, I don't play Alien Crossfire. That happened in good old plain SMAC.

[Petek]

LT,

I tried to reproduce this behavior (using the scenario editor), but didn't get the same result. When my probe team won the battle, the base remained. Tested this in both SMAC and SMAX.

Is your copy of SMAC fully patched?

[Leon Trotsky]

Now that's puzzling. I had installed the last SMAC patch by then. I'll look for a savegame from that game, but I can promise nothing.