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starsjunkie posted 08-25-99 10:30 AM ET
Was in the middle of wasting Morgan when all of a sudden "boom!" a message comes up saying that one of my cities has been struck by a meteor�in it's place is a new Garland Crater!Anything weird like this happen to anybody else? Any other weird stuff that might happen (non bug things)?
Beta1 posted 08-25-99 11:53 AM ET
Yeah this is a favourite trick of the game. Tends to happen if you build too many SPsin one base.
Beta-1

Dick Knisely posted 08-25-99 12:23 PM ET
There are several other rare events that can pop up -- in the hundreds of hours of play I've personally yet to see the asteroid hit but I know its there. The other one I can think of right now is the volcano that can pop up (a repeat of the usual one) somewhere on the map suddenly. Had it wipe out a couple sea bases of mine once. Nasty, but fortunately quite rare.
Stingray posted 08-25-99 01:31 PM ET
Here's an interesting thing along those lines. I was in a heated battle with a powerful Hive. He had a lot of Planet Busters and I had a lot more of the defense satellites.(sp) (Forgot the name) Anyway, right after my turn, a huge meteor shower took out all my satellites(sp)!! Guess what happened next. The Hive launched about seven, yes seven! PB's on me! Has this ever happened to anyone? I was VERY upset!
P.S. I won the game anyway!
ballpark posted 08-25-99 04:02 PM ET
The one I have encountered the most is the Volcano appearing, but I have seen both the Meteor Strike (Creating Garland Crater) and the Meteor Shower (killing my satelites). Are there any others?
SMAniaC posted 08-25-99 04:36 PM ET
The appearing vulcano is quiting regular, always after I have had a fungal bloom.
But once a turn after the vulcano appeared, there came a message that the vulvano erupted. Means all squares in radius of 7 or 8 became rocky, all terrain improvements lost, and the worst -1 energy on every square in every base for ten years!
All my bases rioted because of the lack of energy allocated to psych. I had to nerve staple every base.
BTW, why are Orbital Defense Pods abbrevated SP?
Or what does SP mean besides Single Player?
Martin Woodard posted 08-25-99 06:05 PM ET
SP=Secret Project, usually, but I think he was indicating that he was unsure of the spelling of "satellites".
- /\/\ \/\/
Rakeesh posted 08-25-99 07:00 PM ET
Maybe its a difficulty level thing?
warg posted 08-25-99 11:29 PM ET
I read in the stategy guide that the astroid impact only happens if you're in 1st place. Generally, the better you're doing the more likely it is that you'll get one for these really bad events.
RedFred posted 08-26-99 06:50 PM ET
My favourite weird thing happens when you are pacted to two factions that are in vendetta against each other.
In one game, my two pact buddies were pasting each other using my territory's countryside as a battleground. Oddly enough, my cities were neutral territory. In one of my cities units from BOTH factions were stationed.
Bet there were lots of bar fights that evening.
edgecrusher posted 08-26-99 09:16 PM ET
LOL, redfred. i've never had the poor fortune to be struck by a meteor, but, i've had a few volcanoes spring up on me.
"edgecrusher" ~ Spartan Probe Team 'angelis'
Genejack 624 posted 08-27-99 07:31 AM ET
Stingray, that exact same scenario happened to me, I was playing the Peacekeepers against Yang. My orbital defense pods were wiped out in a solar flare. The next turn Yang PB's 4 of my best cities.
Jythexinvok posted 08-27-99 06:26 PM ET
Now for a side question: does anyone know how to cause these events (in alpha.txt)? It might be intersting to have a senerio where say astariod collisions happened every 25 years or something equaly unsettling.
SMACTrek posted 08-27-99 07:56 PM ET
I am paranoid. I really believe that the game punishes you for being untouchable.
Univarse9 posted 08-31-99 10:57 AM ET
I am even more paranoid. I believe the game switches off the heatsink to the CPU and makes it overheat, forcing you to fork out 750cash to replace the now-melted piece of circuitry and plastic.
SMACTrek posted 08-31-99 09:57 PM ET
I thought that was Microsoft's job?
Xentropy posted 09-01-99 02:24 AM ET
RedFred, how'd you pact two factions that were vendetta'd against each other? don't pact brothers/sisters require you join their war or break the pact? how'd you not have to choose one or the other?
mcostant posted 09-01-99 04:52 AM ET
To SMACTrek - No, that's is Intel or AMD job: they need you buy another CPU .
Microsoft mess around with driver, so you need to upgrade your WinXX - full price - just to keep up with USB support and the like .
To Xentropy - No, sometime you can't force your pact brothers to peace, because one of them reply "I've been payed to destroy the evil ...." or something the like. But you can mantain your pact status, at least if you don't hurt the factions with other actions (opposite S.E. choices, probe against them, bully asking money/tech/bases). Just be carefull and watch your back, just in case one of the two become crazy and begin a sneak attack to you
RedFred posted 09-01-99 03:02 PM ET
Xentropy:
In this particular instance, Yang had surrendered to me and was submissively pacted. The other faction entered into a pact with me on equal terms.
When Yang surrendered I told him to stop fighting my friend. He said no way. After that I avoided speaking to either pact mate on account of the probability of one of the pacts unraveling.
Another rare event is being #1 on the depth chart and successfully staying in pact with #2 AND #3 without either being a surrendered submissive. Only happened to me once, playing Morgan.
RedFred posted 09-01-99 03:06 PM ET
...to clarify...
By saying "pacted on equal terms" I mean that there was NO surrender involved.
dilbert posted 09-01-99 06:45 PM ET
As long as you stay in Knowledge SE choice, you can do whatever you want and still be in a pact with Zak. Generally speaking, UoP is the best faction you can pact with. It usually gives you free techs if you're falling behind.
RedFred posted 09-02-99 02:29 AM ET
You got it, dilbert. I was pacted with UoP and the Gaians. I stuck to knowledge, green SE choices like glue.
RedFred posted 09-02-99 02:31 AM ET
...mind you, Zak and Lady D swapped #2 and #3 spots at least once. Don't know if that helped me stay on such good terms with them both.
Sector7G posted 09-02-99 04:27 AM ET
I had one metor strike happen to me. It was 75 turns in (and I think that is the earliest it can happen) with the PK one the earth world map, and the first time ever on trandsend I had all of the 1st & 2nd level SP's. Just as soon as I Finally built the merchant exhange ( thats the one I usally lose) BOOM metor destroys 3 of my earlier bases. Luckly the ME was the only SP I lost. OTOH the base I built in the middle of the crater with a condencer became one of my best bases. What do they say about that...
Zakharov_54 posted 09-02-99 12:53 PM ET
I've never had an asteroid strike any of my bases or a volcano pop up. In fact the worst thing that ever happened was sunspots (I think). 'Course that's the worst ~random event~ that's ever happened to me. I've had people impose sanctions on me after nerve-stapling a whole bunch of my bases.
NotLikeTea posted 09-02-99 01:15 PM ET
I had the situation of several factions in one base blow up in my face once.
I was attacking a base of my enemy with artillery. Boom, boom, boom. Then, I see that one of the booms has struck a unit of my pactmate. That pact didn't last too long
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Author	Topic: Meteor Strike
starsjunkie	posted 08-25-99 10:30 AM ET Was in the middle of wasting Morgan when all of a sudden "boom!" a message comes up saying that one of my cities has been struck by a meteor�in it's place is a new Garland Crater!Anything weird like this happen to anybody else? Any other weird stuff that might happen (non bug things)?
Beta1	posted 08-25-99 11:53 AM ET Yeah this is a favourite trick of the game. Tends to happen if you build too many SPsin one base. Beta-1
Dick Knisely	posted 08-25-99 12:23 PM ET There are several other rare events that can pop up -- in the hundreds of hours of play I've personally yet to see the asteroid hit but I know its there. The other one I can think of right now is the volcano that can pop up (a repeat of the usual one) somewhere on the map suddenly. Had it wipe out a couple sea bases of mine once. Nasty, but fortunately quite rare.
Stingray	posted 08-25-99 01:31 PM ET Here's an interesting thing along those lines. I was in a heated battle with a powerful Hive. He had a lot of Planet Busters and I had a lot more of the defense satellites.(sp) (Forgot the name) Anyway, right after my turn, a huge meteor shower took out all my satellites(sp)!! Guess what happened next. The Hive launched about seven, yes seven! PB's on me! Has this ever happened to anyone? I was VERY upset! P.S. I won the game anyway!
ballpark	posted 08-25-99 04:02 PM ET The one I have encountered the most is the Volcano appearing, but I have seen both the Meteor Strike (Creating Garland Crater) and the Meteor Shower (killing my satelites). Are there any others?
SMAniaC	posted 08-25-99 04:36 PM ET The appearing vulcano is quiting regular, always after I have had a fungal bloom. But once a turn after the vulcano appeared, there came a message that the vulvano erupted. Means all squares in radius of 7 or 8 became rocky, all terrain improvements lost, and the worst -1 energy on every square in every base for ten years! All my bases rioted because of the lack of energy allocated to psych. I had to nerve staple every base. BTW, why are Orbital Defense Pods abbrevated SP? Or what does SP mean besides Single Player?
Martin Woodard	posted 08-25-99 06:05 PM ET SP=Secret Project, usually, but I think he was indicating that he was unsure of the spelling of "satellites". - /\/\ \/\/
Rakeesh	posted 08-25-99 07:00 PM ET Maybe its a difficulty level thing?
warg	posted 08-25-99 11:29 PM ET I read in the stategy guide that the astroid impact only happens if you're in 1st place. Generally, the better you're doing the more likely it is that you'll get one for these really bad events.
RedFred	posted 08-26-99 06:50 PM ET My favourite weird thing happens when you are pacted to two factions that are in vendetta against each other. In one game, my two pact buddies were pasting each other using my territory's countryside as a battleground. Oddly enough, my cities were neutral territory. In one of my cities units from BOTH factions were stationed. Bet there were lots of bar fights that evening.
edgecrusher	posted 08-26-99 09:16 PM ET LOL, redfred. i've never had the poor fortune to be struck by a meteor, but, i've had a few volcanoes spring up on me. "edgecrusher" ~ Spartan Probe Team 'angelis'
Genejack 624	posted 08-27-99 07:31 AM ET Stingray, that exact same scenario happened to me, I was playing the Peacekeepers against Yang. My orbital defense pods were wiped out in a solar flare. The next turn Yang PB's 4 of my best cities.
Jythexinvok	posted 08-27-99 06:26 PM ET Now for a side question: does anyone know how to cause these events (in alpha.txt)? It might be intersting to have a senerio where say astariod collisions happened every 25 years or something equaly unsettling.
SMACTrek	posted 08-27-99 07:56 PM ET I am paranoid. I really believe that the game punishes you for being untouchable.
Univarse9	posted 08-31-99 10:57 AM ET I am even more paranoid. I believe the game switches off the heatsink to the CPU and makes it overheat, forcing you to fork out 750cash to replace the now-melted piece of circuitry and plastic.
SMACTrek	posted 08-31-99 09:57 PM ET I thought that was Microsoft's job?
Xentropy	posted 09-01-99 02:24 AM ET RedFred, how'd you pact two factions that were vendetta'd against each other? don't pact brothers/sisters require you join their war or break the pact? how'd you not have to choose one or the other?
mcostant	posted 09-01-99 04:52 AM ET To SMACTrek - No, that's is Intel or AMD job: they need you buy another CPU . Microsoft mess around with driver, so you need to upgrade your WinXX - full price - just to keep up with USB support and the like . To Xentropy - No, sometime you can't force your pact brothers to peace, because one of them reply "I've been payed to destroy the evil ...." or something the like. But you can mantain your pact status, at least if you don't hurt the factions with other actions (opposite S.E. choices, probe against them, bully asking money/tech/bases). Just be carefull and watch your back, just in case one of the two become crazy and begin a sneak attack to you
RedFred	posted 09-01-99 03:02 PM ET Xentropy: In this particular instance, Yang had surrendered to me and was submissively pacted. The other faction entered into a pact with me on equal terms. When Yang surrendered I told him to stop fighting my friend. He said no way. After that I avoided speaking to either pact mate on account of the probability of one of the pacts unraveling. Another rare event is being #1 on the depth chart and successfully staying in pact with #2 AND #3 without either being a surrendered submissive. Only happened to me once, playing Morgan.
RedFred	posted 09-01-99 03:06 PM ET ...to clarify... By saying "pacted on equal terms" I mean that there was NO surrender involved.
dilbert	posted 09-01-99 06:45 PM ET As long as you stay in Knowledge SE choice, you can do whatever you want and still be in a pact with Zak. Generally speaking, UoP is the best faction you can pact with. It usually gives you free techs if you're falling behind.
RedFred	posted 09-02-99 02:29 AM ET You got it, dilbert. I was pacted with UoP and the Gaians. I stuck to knowledge, green SE choices like glue.
RedFred	posted 09-02-99 02:31 AM ET ...mind you, Zak and Lady D swapped #2 and #3 spots at least once. Don't know if that helped me stay on such good terms with them both.
Sector7G	posted 09-02-99 04:27 AM ET I had one metor strike happen to me. It was 75 turns in (and I think that is the earliest it can happen) with the PK one the earth world map, and the first time ever on trandsend I had all of the 1st & 2nd level SP's. Just as soon as I Finally built the merchant exhange ( thats the one I usally lose) BOOM metor destroys 3 of my earlier bases. Luckly the ME was the only SP I lost. OTOH the base I built in the middle of the crater with a condencer became one of my best bases. What do they say about that...
Zakharov_54	posted 09-02-99 12:53 PM ET I've never had an asteroid strike any of my bases or a volcano pop up. In fact the worst thing that ever happened was sunspots (I think). 'Course that's the worst ~random event~ that's ever happened to me. I've had people impose sanctions on me after nerve-stapling a whole bunch of my bases.
NotLikeTea	posted 09-02-99 01:15 PM ET I had the situation of several factions in one base blow up in my face once. I was attacking a base of my enemy with artillery. Boom, boom, boom. Then, I see that one of the booms has struck a unit of my pactmate. That pact didn't last too long