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LoD posted 04-28-99 10:41 AM ET
Text from patch 2.0 readme:
"Probe teams are now "unflagged", meaning you cannot easily tell who controls the team."
I've just made a scenario and checked this. Finding out the allegiance of a probe team is as "hard" as pressing Shift-Right. IMHO when a gaming company says that there's a feature in a patch, it should be there. Unless of course this bug exists only in the UK version. Does it?

LoD
Aredhran posted 04-28-99 11:00 AM ET
Nope. US version, 3.0, same ****. The only thing that disappeared is the actual colored flag above the unit icon, but the "SHIFT+RIGHT CLICK" description still shows who it belongs to.
Shame.
Aredhran
umbra1 posted 04-28-99 11:22 AM ET
Is this true for multiplayer games as well ? Not that I'm using PTs in my PBEM games you understand... <blush>
LoD posted 04-28-99 02:50 PM ET
umbra1: I've run a hotseat game to check this. You know what - it does . Are you thinking what I'm thinking:
Player1 (no allusions - honest ): "Now, that wasn't *MY* Probe Team!"
Player2: "Yes it was! I checked it with Shift+Right!"
P1: <gulp>
P2: *launches a mass PB attack to wipe P1 out of the face of Chiron*
Firaxis: Please, fix this bug - you'll save an untold number of (virtual) lives!
LoD
Xerxes314 posted 04-28-99 03:25 PM ET
And while they're fixing that, I'd like to be able to see my allies' probe teams. I hate attacking a probe team just to find out it was a friendly.
Darkstar posted 04-28-99 06:01 PM ET
Unless they are going to just NOT display them, put the blooming shield back on them and get over it. I dislike being forced to run my cursor over a probe team to see if its my Buddy and Ally Morgans, or that dispecable and Enemy of the People, Lal.
Come on Firaxis! Prevent needless Corpreal Tunnel Syndromes!
-Darkstar
MoSe posted 04-29-99 10:37 AM ET
Yesh, metoo tinks tose "unflagged" protbeams
outta be "flogged" back|!"
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Author	Topic: "Unflagged" Probe Teams:(
LoD	posted 04-28-99 10:41 AM ET Text from patch 2.0 readme: "Probe teams are now "unflagged", meaning you cannot easily tell who controls the team." I've just made a scenario and checked this. Finding out the allegiance of a probe team is as "hard" as pressing Shift-Right. IMHO when a gaming company says that there's a feature in a patch, it should be there. Unless of course this bug exists only in the UK version. Does it? LoD
Aredhran	posted 04-28-99 11:00 AM ET Nope. US version, 3.0, same ****. The only thing that disappeared is the actual colored flag above the unit icon, but the "SHIFT+RIGHT CLICK" description still shows who it belongs to. Shame. Aredhran
umbra1	posted 04-28-99 11:22 AM ET Is this true for multiplayer games as well ? Not that I'm using PTs in my PBEM games you understand... <blush>
LoD	posted 04-28-99 02:50 PM ET umbra1: I've run a hotseat game to check this. You know what - it does . Are you thinking what I'm thinking: Player1 (no allusions - honest ): "Now, that wasn't MY Probe Team!" Player2: "Yes it was! I checked it with Shift+Right!" P1: <gulp> P2: launches a mass PB attack to wipe P1 out of the face of Chiron Firaxis: Please, fix this bug - you'll save an untold number of (virtual) lives! LoD
Xerxes314	posted 04-28-99 03:25 PM ET And while they're fixing that, I'd like to be able to see my allies' probe teams. I hate attacking a probe team just to find out it was a friendly.
Darkstar	posted 04-28-99 06:01 PM ET Unless they are going to just NOT display them, put the blooming shield back on them and get over it. I dislike being forced to run my cursor over a probe team to see if its my Buddy and Ally Morgans, or that dispecable and Enemy of the People, Lal. Come on Firaxis! Prevent needless Corpreal Tunnel Syndromes! -Darkstar
MoSe	posted 04-29-99 10:37 AM ET Yesh, metoo tinks tose "unflagged" protbeams outta be "flogged" back\|!"