Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: Percival on May 23, 2015, 01:54:38 AM

Title: Game stops creating new units
Post by: Percival on May 23, 2015, 01:54:38 AM

Hello!

I´ve always had a specific problem with SMACX and never really tought asking the opinion of more advanced and experienced players of this wonderful game, until now.  The problem I always face begins, I think, because I like to play in an expansive style (many, MANY cities) and, consequently, many units. I have todo a lot of micromanagement but for me this is just part of the fun. Now comes the problem: sooner of later, because of too many units (Usually I play with the pirates, so I have a lot of sea formers and skimship suppliers) the game simply stops creating more units. If in a specific city, for example, I know I´ll have a sea colony pod by the next turn, then, in this next turn not only I don´t get the unit but the count of turns to produce "another" starts again. And this goes on and on (buying the unit doesn´t solve)... So, when the game comes to this, I simply can´t produce anything... military units, formers, colony pods... nothing!

Does anyone here knows about this problem? I´m not sure if this is caused by some bug or I just demanded too much from the game. I really appreciate any thoughts on this ( and will be grateful to know if there´s some way to solve the problem).

Thank you!

Percival

Title: Re: Game stops creating new units
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 23, 2015, 02:22:03 AM

Posting a save where this is happening for you would probably help.

Title: Re: Game stops creating new units
Post by: Percival on May 23, 2015, 05:31:34 PM

I´m playing a new game since last sunday and soon I´ll be at this point... I´m sure it will happen again, then I´ll post the save here. Thanks!

Title: Re: Game stops creating new units
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 23, 2015, 06:16:18 PM

No sweat.  I see helping each other out as at the heart of what we are as a community.

Title: Re: Game stops creating new units
Post by: Geo on May 23, 2015, 09:14:34 PM

IIRC, there's an upper limit to the amount of units the game permits to exist. Don't recall if Yitzi's unofficial patch increased this number or fixed it.

Title: Re: Game stops creating new units
Post by: Percival on May 24, 2015, 12:49:45 AM

I used the game editor to speed things up and... Now I´m oficially confused...

I started playing again as I said, but this time instead of creating a new "custom map size", as I always did, I went for the "huge map of planet"... and the game   didn´t show any problem (yet).

Currently I have 237 units (mostly formers and suppliers) and 48 cities. I´m not using YITZI´s patch this time but it didn´t work either when I used it (so I reinstalled and used only the last official patch from GOG). I´m starting to think that the custom alleatory numbers I used in my old custom maps might caused this problem somehow...

As soon as the problem show itself I´ll post here again.

Title: Re: Game stops creating new units
Post by: Yitzi on May 26, 2015, 04:29:30 AM

There is a maximum number, after which new units are not created; changing this behavior without causing bigger bugs would be a fairly serious undertaking.  I don't remember offhand what that number is, but 237 sounds quite low...