Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: BFG on February 12, 2013, 06:42:56 PM

Title: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: BFG on February 12, 2013, 06:42:56 PM

Quick question from someone who rarely pays much attention to them: do Monoliths ever do anything besides enhance a unit's experience or "remain silent"?

Title: Re: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: Petek on February 12, 2013, 06:48:06 PM

They also will instantly repair damaged units.

Title: Re: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: BFG on February 12, 2013, 06:56:19 PM

Quote from: Petek on February 12, 2013, 06:48:06 PM

They also will instantly repair damaged units.

Really...does that include Ogres and native units?

Title: Re: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: Buster's Uncle on February 12, 2013, 06:59:49 PM

No.

Title: Re: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: BFG on February 12, 2013, 07:02:36 PM

That's too bad...I can understand them not healing native units, and (from a balance perspective) not healing Ogres...but from a storyline perspective, they at least ought to heal the latter.

Title: Re: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: ete on February 12, 2013, 07:04:23 PM

It includes Natives, but not Ogres. Nothing repairs Ogres.

Also, they have a small chance of vanishing if used to upgrade morale.

Title: Re: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: Yitzi on February 14, 2013, 12:11:43 PM

Quote from: BFG on February 12, 2013, 07:02:36 PM

but from a storyline perspective, they at least ought to heal the latter.

I'd say just the opposite makes sense too: Monoliths can work "magic" on units because they're a higher tech level and have plenty of spares, but Ogres are on their tech level and so they can't do anything too amazing to them.

Title: Re: Quick question on Monoliths
Post by: BFG on February 14, 2013, 07:22:53 PM

Quote from: Yitzi on February 14, 2013, 12:11:43 PM

I'd say just the opposite makes sense too: Monoliths can work "magic" on units because they're a higher tech level and have plenty of spares, but Ogres are on their tech level and so they can't do anything too amazing to them.

Hmm, I hadn't considered that, but it does make sense.  Ogres arguably are even on a higher technology level than monoliths.  The only contradiction to this: "standard" units with powers equivalent to Ogres can still be healed.  But those are rarely encountered in-game.