What's the best way to fix or work around the bug in the Data Angels faction where +4 probe values and higher are treated as +0 for some purposes?
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Either "IMMUNITY, PROBE" or "IMPUNITY, KNOWLEDGE".
Pick your favorite, as they accomplish the same thing, as Maniac indicated, that is, preventing the -2 Probe in Knowledge.I am on a mission to see how much coffee it takes to actually achieve time travel.
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Assume you start with +2 Probe. Without any -PROBE avoidance, you would end up with Zero Probe if you select Values, Knowledge, due to its -2 PROBE rating. With either IMMUNITY, PROBE or IMPUNITY, KNOWLEDGE, you get to keep your +2 Probe.
It is possible to trigger the bug even with +1 Probe.
If you use both Fundamentalist and Thought Control. Each gives +2 Probe, for a total of +5. If the bug applies to all values +4 and up, the in-game result would then be Zero.I am on a mission to see how much coffee it takes to actually achieve time travel.
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It is possible to trigger the bug even with +1 Probe.
If you use both Fundamentalist and Thought Control. Each gives +2 Probe, for a total of +5. If the bug applies to all values +4 and up, the in-game result would then be Zero.
Changing the bonus to +1 prevents the bug, but also takes away half the advantage. How to balance properly?
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Get EA games to release the rights to a decent developer to make SMAC 2. The bug cannot be fixed without access to the sourcecode (which nobody has)Into Alien Crossfire? It has been almost 10 years. Time to update your datalinks.
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Yes, but there's a text file which allows me to modify faction. I want to modify it by reducing the bonus to +1, so that bug wouldn't trigger automatically. This modification would also make the faction weaker, so I'm asking for suggestions how to balance it.
One idea: give immunity to probe teams (Hunter-Seeker Algoritm bonus) right at the start? It would be closest to what the original bonus tries to accomplish. How do I edit this?
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The Data Angels, The Infogrrrrl, Angels, F, 2, Roze, F, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0,
TECH, InfNet, TECH, PlaNets, SOCIAL, ++PROBE, SOCIAL, -POLICE, PROBECOST, 75, FREEFAC, 34, TECHSHARE, 3, UNIT, 6
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Darsnan wrote How to Build Ghost Secret Projects.
This is what he had to say about replicating HSA in the faction file:
"HSA: MINDCONTROL, 0 (note: bases still susceptible)"
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