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OldWarrior_42 posted 06-08-99 05:16 AM ET
I was just playing a game and I was on my own continent all by myself(first time ever) and I started playing a builder style game. Had only one monolith on the continent so I built roads leading to it and was upgrading all my units when after about 100 years the monolith just disappeared. Gone...never happened to me before...does this actually happen?..Dam!!
Aredhran posted 06-08-99 06:04 AM ET
You get only so many "free upgrades" from a monolith, after which it's energy is spent and it disappears off the face of the earth. It has happened to me in lots of games. In one where I was playing Lal, and battling Miriam, she had 3 bases around the Ruins, and by the time I secured the area, only 4 out of the original 8 Monoliths were still standing. (I guess that's where that endless flow of Commando and Elite units came from... didn't save her arse, though, she's still screaming in that punishment sphere )
Aredhran
OldWarrior_42 posted 06-08-99 06:15 AM ET
Thanks Aredhran...I never had that happen before but with only one monolith on my little continent I must have wore out the sob.
Darkstar posted 06-09-99 04:29 PM ET
Shouldn't that be off the face of Chiron, Aredhran?
The first time a monolith disappeared on me, I was in shock. It takes a LOT to get them to go away, but it would be nice to get a tech that let you see how many charges are left, or the percentage it will go away. Those 2/2/2 resource benes can be awful nice for a base that thinks its the Hicks (or just early game). And losing it like that can hurt!
-Darkstar
sandals posted 06-09-99 04:38 PM ET
I thought I had read somewhere that a monolith had a 1/32 chance of disappearing each time it was used.
Aredhran posted 06-09-99 04:45 PM ET
Darkstar: oops. good catch
sandals: never heard of this 1/32 thing.
Aredhran
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Author	Topic: Disappearing Monolith
OldWarrior_42	posted 06-08-99 05:16 AM ET I was just playing a game and I was on my own continent all by myself(first time ever) and I started playing a builder style game. Had only one monolith on the continent so I built roads leading to it and was upgrading all my units when after about 100 years the monolith just disappeared. Gone...never happened to me before...does this actually happen?..Dam!!
Aredhran	posted 06-08-99 06:04 AM ET You get only so many "free upgrades" from a monolith, after which it's energy is spent and it disappears off the face of the earth. It has happened to me in lots of games. In one where I was playing Lal, and battling Miriam, she had 3 bases around the Ruins, and by the time I secured the area, only 4 out of the original 8 Monoliths were still standing. (I guess that's where that endless flow of Commando and Elite units came from... didn't save her arse, though, she's still screaming in that punishment sphere ) Aredhran
OldWarrior_42	posted 06-08-99 06:15 AM ET Thanks Aredhran...I never had that happen before but with only one monolith on my little continent I must have wore out the sob.
Darkstar	posted 06-09-99 04:29 PM ET Shouldn't that be off the face of Chiron, Aredhran? The first time a monolith disappeared on me, I was in shock. It takes a LOT to get them to go away, but it would be nice to get a tech that let you see how many charges are left, or the percentage it will go away. Those 2/2/2 resource benes can be awful nice for a base that thinks its the Hicks (or just early game). And losing it like that can hurt! -Darkstar
sandals	posted 06-09-99 04:38 PM ET I thought I had read somewhere that a monolith had a 1/32 chance of disappearing each time it was used.
Aredhran	posted 06-09-99 04:45 PM ET Darkstar: oops. good catch sandals: never heard of this 1/32 thing. Aredhran