Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: Jagged_One on June 27, 2014, 01:43:00 AM

Title: Growing a city using colony pods ?
Post by: Jagged_One on June 27, 2014, 01:43:00 AM

I read the statement below in a page of tips for playing SMAC (http://spyang.com/strategy/alphaCentauri.html):

"Using a colony pod to grow an existing city ignores hab complex limits, so you can make a huge city well before you ever get the habitation dome."

Can someone enlighten as to how one grows a city using colony pods ? I have never heard of this before.  ???



Thanks....Jaggie

Title: Re: Growing a city using colony pods ?
Post by: Lord Avalon on June 27, 2014, 02:21:25 AM

Move a colony pod to another base, hit 'b' - and that base gets +1 population.

Title: Re: Growing a city using colony pods ?
Post by: Geo on June 27, 2014, 07:45:25 AM

Yeah, simple as that.
Just keep in mind only colony pods can increase the size of a landbase, and similar for sea colony pods to seabases

Title: Re: Growing a city using colony pods ?
Post by: Yitzi on June 27, 2014, 03:27:38 PM

This probably should be considered an exploit, though, so if you don't like using exploits (or are in a MP game that prohibits all exploits) you shouldn't use it.

Title: Re: Growing a city using colony pods ?
Post by: Lord Avalon on June 28, 2014, 12:13:20 AM

It doesn't seem like an exploit to me if you're only increasing up to your pop limit.

Title: Re: Growing a city using colony pods ?
Post by: Yitzi on June 29, 2014, 03:36:33 AM

Quote from: Lord Avalon on June 28, 2014, 12:13:20 AM

It doesn't seem like an exploit to me if you're only increasing up to your pop limit.

True; I was referring specifically to the "exceed hab limits" part.  Using it to do things like grow an outlying base quickly at the expense of an inner-empire base that's pushing against its hab limit is definitely not an exploit.

Title: Re: Growing a city using colony pods ?
Post by: Question on October 04, 2014, 04:51:25 PM

That page seems badly outdated...it claims that air units get free armor up to level 5 armor, which is obviously not true...