Trading new/empty bases for massive cities with secret projects&plenty of facilities

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Wolf Dreamer posted 05-03-99 03:14 PM ET
This is a horrible bug that needs to be fixed. I joking asked Yang(everyone else is eliminated) to trade one of his best bases, which had a high population, several completed secret projects, and many facilities for one which had no facilities at all and a very low population. I can empty out a base of mine, and have the garrison wait nearby. Then after trading the empty base, get Yang to pronounce vendetta on me, then seize the base again, as well as conquering at least one other. He will demand that I return one base to him for peace, then while I have him talking, I trade the same useless base back to him for another excellent base. I did this several times, before I reloaded my game and played fairly, since I don't enjoy winning a game by exploiting such an obvious bug.
trippin daily posted 05-03-99 03:35 PM ET
Sorry to break this to you Dreamer, but that bug is highly known on the forums. There is one easy way to work around it. Just don't do it. It is only an inability of willpower if you exploit this bug. While it does need to be fixed, that would require them to write a good amount of new code. Code that grades bases on all their facets. While this bug may be fixed in patch 4, don't count on it... This may be one of those bugs which doesn't get fixed. For it is easy to counter. The most that FIRAXIS could do easily is to make a toggle switch when you start up a game to disable this feature (which would stop this cheat from being used on multiplayer). Now I would like to see this fixed for multiplayer, but I wouldn't seriously count on it being part of patch 4 (at least not a truly great grading scale at least), but more of something which will appear in smacx. Don't be ashamed of posting this known bug, for I have never seen you post here before, and EA has made it a common thing to purge the forums every once and awhile (almost biweekly). So you wouldn't have known about the bug being reported. You should ALWAYS report bugs if you think they aren't reported already, and thats what you did.
Trippin Daily
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Author	Topic: Trading new/empty bases for massive cities with secret projects&plenty of facilities
Wolf Dreamer	posted 05-03-99 03:14 PM ET This is a horrible bug that needs to be fixed. I joking asked Yang(everyone else is eliminated) to trade one of his best bases, which had a high population, several completed secret projects, and many facilities for one which had no facilities at all and a very low population. I can empty out a base of mine, and have the garrison wait nearby. Then after trading the empty base, get Yang to pronounce vendetta on me, then seize the base again, as well as conquering at least one other. He will demand that I return one base to him for peace, then while I have him talking, I trade the same useless base back to him for another excellent base. I did this several times, before I reloaded my game and played fairly, since I don't enjoy winning a game by exploiting such an obvious bug.
trippin daily	posted 05-03-99 03:35 PM ET Sorry to break this to you Dreamer, but that bug is highly known on the forums. There is one easy way to work around it. Just don't do it. It is only an inability of willpower if you exploit this bug. While it does need to be fixed, that would require them to write a good amount of new code. Code that grades bases on all their facets. While this bug may be fixed in patch 4, don't count on it... This may be one of those bugs which doesn't get fixed. For it is easy to counter. The most that FIRAXIS could do easily is to make a toggle switch when you start up a game to disable this feature (which would stop this cheat from being used on multiplayer). Now I would like to see this fixed for multiplayer, but I wouldn't seriously count on it being part of patch 4 (at least not a truly great grading scale at least), but more of something which will appear in smacx. Don't be ashamed of posting this known bug, for I have never seen you post here before, and EA has made it a common thing to purge the forums every once and awhile (almost biweekly). So you wouldn't have known about the bug being reported. You should ALWAYS report bugs if you think they aren't reported already, and thats what you did. Trippin Daily -listen to some kewl rave music at the moment-