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Urban Ranger posted 05-08-99 10:54 PM ET
Here's the situation:
I am at war with Morgan. Before the ground troops get there I have sent in a couple of gunboats to soften him. I have parked these ships outside one of his cities, and shelled one of his mines. However, there's this Morganite boat inside the city, and somehow it shot back at me. My questions are:
1. I didn't shoot at the city. How could that ship shoot me?
2. How come the computer decided that it was my ship that shelled the Morganite city?
3. How come my ship get a -100% hasty attack penalty? I surely wasn't firing at the other ship, since it shot at me first.
Have you seen this kind of nonsense before?
StarChaser Tyger posted 05-12-99 06:40 PM ET
Might have missed and hit the city instead? I blew up quite a few enhancements before I figured out that the crosshairs are NOT where the bombing will land.
Note to Firaxis; Maybe make that a little clearer? When you put the crosshairs on your target and something up and left of it gets blown up, it's mildly disconcerting...
Urban Ranger posted 05-13-99 11:53 AM ET
What you do is to aim the crosshair at the square your target is in and not directly at the target.
tfs99 posted 05-13-99 02:41 PM ET
Do you have v3.0 loaded? There was a crosshair bug where the hotspot on the cursor was wrong and could lead to aiming at the wrong square.
SMAC n ... Ted S.
Urban Ranger posted 05-16-99 07:23 AM ET
Yeah, I got patch v3 alright.
Darkstar posted 05-20-99 02:11 PM ET
It SOUNDS like its water arty in city defending against water arty attacking something inside city production radius. If you had been using land arty, and a land arty in the city defended, you wouldn't be surprised Ranger. That would explain everything. Undocumented Water Arty feature... Bug in documentation/datalinks, not program.
-Darkstar
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Urban Ranger	posted 05-08-99 10:54 PM ET Here's the situation: I am at war with Morgan. Before the ground troops get there I have sent in a couple of gunboats to soften him. I have parked these ships outside one of his cities, and shelled one of his mines. However, there's this Morganite boat inside the city, and somehow it shot back at me. My questions are: 1. I didn't shoot at the city. How could that ship shoot me? 2. How come the computer decided that it was my ship that shelled the Morganite city? 3. How come my ship get a -100% hasty attack penalty? I surely wasn't firing at the other ship, since it shot at me first. Have you seen this kind of nonsense before?
StarChaser Tyger	posted 05-12-99 06:40 PM ET Might have missed and hit the city instead? I blew up quite a few enhancements before I figured out that the crosshairs are NOT where the bombing will land. Note to Firaxis; Maybe make that a little clearer? When you put the crosshairs on your target and something up and left of it gets blown up, it's mildly disconcerting...
Urban Ranger	posted 05-13-99 11:53 AM ET What you do is to aim the crosshair at the square your target is in and not directly at the target.
tfs99	posted 05-13-99 02:41 PM ET Do you have v3.0 loaded? There was a crosshair bug where the hotspot on the cursor was wrong and could lead to aiming at the wrong square. SMAC n ... Ted S.
Urban Ranger	posted 05-16-99 07:23 AM ET Yeah, I got patch v3 alright.
Darkstar	posted 05-20-99 02:11 PM ET It SOUNDS like its water arty in city defending against water arty attacking something inside city production radius. If you had been using land arty, and a land arty in the city defended, you wouldn't be surprised Ranger. That would explain everything. Undocumented Water Arty feature... Bug in documentation/datalinks, not program. -Darkstar