Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Modding => Bug/Patch Discussion => Topic started by: T-hawk on November 27, 2018, 05:03:20 pm

Title: Found a bug with nerve stapling
Post by: T-hawk on November 27, 2018, 05:03:20 pm

Found this interesting bug.  Probably not worth anyone's effort to patch but I just wanted to write about it.

Base A is under the effect of a nerve stapling.  It builds something in order to trigger the "zoom to base" popup window.  While in that base screen, you use F4 to switch to the view of Base B instead, then hit OK in the Base B screen.  The time remaining on the nerve stapling is decremented from Base B instead of Base A!

If Base A builds something every turn, it's possible to have its nerve stapling last forever by doing this every turn.  And if Base B isn't currently stapled, nothing seems to happen.  So you can actually keep many bases perpetually stapled if you have one sacrificial base to switch to during production upkeep every time.

Title: Re: Found a bug with nerve stapling
Post by: bvanevery on December 16, 2018, 05:10:15 am

So that's how Yang kept the drones under control.  Who knew?