Celebrity: Maniac

[vyeh]

The following post was posted in the FAQ, violating the rules of the opening post by Illuminatus. I've asked that this post be deleted.

I was running a search to see if your problem had arisen before. I forgot to limit the search to the AC forum and found the problem reported in the off-topic forum!

The guy with the problem reported fixing it by doing "something stupid."

The answer puzzles me. I use a Mac and never tried to run AC on Win32, so I think it is best you read it for yourself. If it also doesn't make sense to you, maybe an experienced Windows user can make sense of the answer.

Edit: I found another reference to the same solution for the same or similar problem in the old The SMAC/X FAQ: COMMON QUESTIONS and their ANSWERS.

I'm hoping Petek will look at this. Maybe the "stupid" solution is no longer needed with the proper edit of the Alpha Centauri.ini file. Petek is the expert on getting SMAC and SMAX to continue to work as Window evolves.

It looks to me that all of the words are mine. I made this post in reference to a thread where someone was not able to run terranx.exe.

If Celebrity maniac has a serious point to posting in the FAQ, use this thread.

Otherwise, Illuminatus can delete this thread.

[Petek]

I thought that post looked familiar.

Petek

[Maniac]

And there I thought someone had started a thread about me.

[Illuminatus]

And there I thought someone had started a thread about me.

I've altered the thread title to reflect that.

I believe this was a semantic bot (it can read threads).

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

We should start a thread about Maniac, though...

[Alinestra Covelia]

Maniac, now wasn't he the one who went through and modded the game a lot? Thems were some good mods.

[Maniac]

I've altered the thread title to reflect that.

I believe this was a semantic bot (it can read threads).

Next thing you know they'll gain Digital Sentience.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Maniac, now wasn't he the one who went through and modded the game a lot? Thems were some good mods.

Yes.

However, I had in mind that it would be fun to tell funny outrageous lies about him, but I don't know that I'm brave enough to be the one to start it...

[Alinestra Covelia]

What, like how he invented the trick about purposefully renaming your units in each base so an enemy would see the production and then completely freak out, thinking you'd researched Shard Weapons?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

No. I don't think that one's a lie. I was thinking more like "smokes dope with Hitler's head," but I don't feel that I know Maniac well enough to be so familiar as to go first.

[Alinestra Covelia]

There's also the one about when he did the TERRAFORM UP function on one single square so many times that an error message came up and the next turn he had one less Orbital Defense Pod.

[gwillybj]

Now, that I could almost believe.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Maniac is the only player known to have a defense score high enough that Planet Busters lose when they attack him.


Your turn.

[Petek]

You don't play SMAniaC. SMAniaC play you!

Petek

[Alinestra Covelia]

Maniac walked into a bar in an alien city, but they refused to serve him.

And that's where The Ruins come from.