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Myst12 posted 02-21-99 05:58 PM ET
I'm playing a talent level game on a standard planet. Single Player.
Whenever I send a probe team against another faction to steal their technology the game gives me the option to 'frame' a third faction for the crime. However, all the time, the only factions that the game lets me frame are factions who have already been eliminated from the game. Needless to say, this is kind'a pointless when I want to create tension between the other factions.

Myst12 posted 02-22-99 07:35 AM ET
A follow-up:
Well, I finally got caught for my probe teams trying to steal technology from the University. However, the faction I tried to frame, which has long been dead in the game, popped up out of nowhere and said they too had declared a Vendatta against me.
Somewhere in this subroutine, the AI still thinks these factions are alive when, in fact, they are not.
BTW: I have the game set for factions to NOT return once eliminated from the game, and I can already see the whole map due to space technology. So, the long deceased faction doesn't have a base left somewhere.
Speaking of the AI, this game I'm playing should have long been over. The University is already researching "transcendent thought" but they haven't bothered to build "Voice of the Planet." What gives? Instead they just keep trying to become "supreme leader" every twenty years, which isn't going to happen because they pissed off two of the other AI players by decimating their empires.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-22-99 10:54 AM ET
Fixed in next patch.
jkm
firaxis games
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Author	Topic: Probe Team Bug
Myst12	posted 02-21-99 05:58 PM ET I'm playing a talent level game on a standard planet. Single Player. Whenever I send a probe team against another faction to steal their technology the game gives me the option to 'frame' a third faction for the crime. However, all the time, the only factions that the game lets me frame are factions who have already been eliminated from the game. Needless to say, this is kind'a pointless when I want to create tension between the other factions.
Myst12	posted 02-22-99 07:35 AM ET A follow-up: Well, I finally got caught for my probe teams trying to steal technology from the University. However, the faction I tried to frame, which has long been dead in the game, popped up out of nowhere and said they too had declared a Vendatta against me. Somewhere in this subroutine, the AI still thinks these factions are alive when, in fact, they are not. BTW: I have the game set for factions to NOT return once eliminated from the game, and I can already see the whole map due to space technology. So, the long deceased faction doesn't have a base left somewhere. Speaking of the AI, this game I'm playing should have long been over. The University is already researching "transcendent thought" but they haven't bothered to build "Voice of the Planet." What gives? Instead they just keep trying to become "supreme leader" every twenty years, which isn't going to happen because they pissed off two of the other AI players by decimating their empires.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-22-99 10:54 AM ET Fixed in next patch. jkm firaxis games