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Xenofungus posted 03-24-99 07:46 AM ET
How do You Know if an Enemy Base is defended or not, if there is a way please reply to me!!!!!! Here's another Question, why is it that sometimes the number on top of the enmey base turns transparent and sometimes it is filled with a colour?!!!
Please Kindly Reply
Cadfael posted 03-24-99 07:50 AM ET
You just answered your own question.
When the flag is transparent the base is undefended.
The Panther posted 03-24-99 08:10 AM ET
The problem is: When you stand beside a base, with a unit, it doesn't always unfill although the base is empty, this is I think, beacause they don't update the box frequently enough. I haven't noticed if it is changed in SMAC 3.0, but the only way is to notice, wheteher anyone popped into the city, the turn before.
Verminlord posted 03-24-99 09:12 AM ET
You can also right-click on the base, select move cursor here and it will show you the defenders if any. I think to do this you either need some SP, be the govenor or be standing right next to the base.
Ron
Hunterseeker posted 03-24-99 02:05 PM ET
Also, when you attack the city, you can see if it is the last unit, you're attacking.
If there are more than one unit, there will be deep "shadows" behind it. And you want to find out on distance you can attack it with artillery and see, if it displays more than one unit in the city to fire on.
Drago Sinio posted 03-24-99 03:21 PM ET
The best thing is as soon as you locate an enemy, send in a probe to "infiltrate data links". For the rest of the game you can click on any of that factions cities and see exactly what the defenses are.
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Author	Topic: How To Know If Defended
Xenofungus	posted 03-24-99 07:46 AM ET How do You Know if an Enemy Base is defended or not, if there is a way please reply to me!!!!!! Here's another Question, why is it that sometimes the number on top of the enmey base turns transparent and sometimes it is filled with a colour?!!! Please Kindly Reply
Cadfael	posted 03-24-99 07:50 AM ET You just answered your own question. When the flag is transparent the base is undefended.
The Panther	posted 03-24-99 08:10 AM ET The problem is: When you stand beside a base, with a unit, it doesn't always unfill although the base is empty, this is I think, beacause they don't update the box frequently enough. I haven't noticed if it is changed in SMAC 3.0, but the only way is to notice, wheteher anyone popped into the city, the turn before.
Verminlord	posted 03-24-99 09:12 AM ET You can also right-click on the base, select move cursor here and it will show you the defenders if any. I think to do this you either need some SP, be the govenor or be standing right next to the base. Ron
Hunterseeker	posted 03-24-99 02:05 PM ET Also, when you attack the city, you can see if it is the last unit, you're attacking. If there are more than one unit, there will be deep "shadows" behind it. And you want to find out on distance you can attack it with artillery and see, if it displays more than one unit in the city to fire on.
Drago Sinio	posted 03-24-99 03:21 PM ET The best thing is as soon as you locate an enemy, send in a probe to "infiltrate data links". For the rest of the game you can click on any of that factions cities and see exactly what the defenses are.