Post by: bvanevery on March 20, 2018, 02:42:41 pm
pre obsolete unit |
I just started this game as the Pirates. I'm playing with pods only at landing sites. There were 2 next to my starting position, and I got Industrial Base out of 1 of them. Subsequently I met the University and traded Centarui Ecology for Secrets of the Human Brain. I went to design the usual Trance Synthmetal Garrison and the game says it's obsolete! What gives?
In the previous very long game I played, I remember something weird happening late in the game. My ally Cha Dawn gave me a 1-2-1 unit to help defend against aggression. I was way past that tech and had long since obsoleted both 1-2-1 and 1-2t-1 unit designs. I got the message for having been given the unit, but I never saw such a unit materialize. I wonder if that incident is related? What could be lying around from an old game that would affect a new game?
For some reason there's an "Alpha Centauri Autosave 1.SAV" file in my main game directory, not the /saves subdirectory. This .SAV is from yesterday, not my current game. I wonder if that's relevant? I also have no idea how it got there.
I'm remembering that when I started playing today, I accidentally loaded an old saved game from yesterday, just out of force of habit. Then I just selected "Start New Game" from the menu. I'm guessing that the settings from the old game, did not get completely wiped out. I hope I don't end up with lots of units affected, or permanently affected. We'll see.
Post by: bvanevery on March 20, 2018, 02:51:17 pm
after researching Social Psych |
I think the next turn, but no more than 2 turns later, I researched Social Psych on my own. Then the unit designer began working normally. I do know that the auto-designer kicks in whenever you get a new tech, so perhaps some housekeeping chores and initialization were performed.
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 20, 2018, 03:10:13 pm
(-There's a nasty bug associated that might turn all your formers into colony pods or something else useless -because of a build queue rollover exploit I use to build a few units before I have the tech- when you discover fusion, and I actually depend on it for yet another exploit I'm probably the sole discoverer of, to turn infantry chassis formers into free-upgraded hovertank formers. Controlling the timing of triggering the once-a-game bug is important to make it a + exploit.)
I'd turned off auto design years before that anyway, because a million useless units clogging the workshop and I don't really like any of the anti-micromanagement options the game has that inherently remove my command of details.
Post by: bvanevery on March 20, 2018, 03:19:53 pm
Actually I took a compromise position. Don't design units automatically, but do auto-prune obsolete units.
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 20, 2018, 03:31:28 pm
Post by: bvanevery on March 20, 2018, 04:40:21 pm
Post by: Buster's Uncle on March 20, 2018, 04:43:00 pm