Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Modding => Bug/Patch Discussion => Topic started by: Dio on July 03, 2014, 12:51:23 AM

Title: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: Dio on July 03, 2014, 12:51:23 AM

I noticed that this feature does not work even though some of the facilities have a technology put into that slot. This feature appears under the FACILITY section of a Alpha(x) file.

Title: Re: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: Yitzi on July 03, 2014, 02:55:24 AM

Yes, that does appear to be a bug.  I don't think I'll get to it in patch 3.1, as it's not such a serious bug, but I am putting it a bit lower on the list.

Title: Re: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: gwillybj on July 04, 2014, 02:03:48 AM

Is that supposed to mean that you get the facility itself free in every base?
Or is it supposed to mean that there is no maintenance cost after it is built?

Title: Re: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: Yitzi on July 04, 2014, 04:27:18 AM

Quote from: gwillybj on July 04, 2014, 02:03:48 AM

Is that supposed to mean that you get the facility itself free in every base?
Or is it supposed to mean that there is no maintenance cost after it is built?

No maintenance cost.

Title: Re: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: gwillybj on July 04, 2014, 03:09:18 PM

That's what I thought. Never really paid attention to it...
Certainly would change things in my games. I love buildings.

Title: Re: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: Yitzi on July 04, 2014, 03:26:38 PM

Quote from: gwillybj on July 04, 2014, 03:09:18 PM

That's what I thought. Never really paid attention to it...
Certainly would change things in my games. I love buildings.

Keep in mind that by default it only applies to the earliest facilities (recycling tanks, rec commons, network node, and energy bank), and only with mid-to-late-game techs (Advanced Ecological Engineering for recycling tanks except that they have no maintenance anyway, and the other three become no-maintenance at techs of level 10 higher than their prerequisite.)

Title: Re: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: Petek on July 06, 2014, 09:39:14 PM

Should this be regarded as a bug? The description of the FREE feature in Alpha(x).txt is No longer supported. That indicates to me that the feature was disabled on purpose.

Title: Re: Facility free after discovery of a tech
Post by: Yitzi on July 07, 2014, 12:31:12 AM

Quote from: Petek on July 06, 2014, 09:39:14 PM

Should this be regarded as a bug? The description of the FREE feature in Alpha(x).txt is No longer supported. That indicates to me that the feature was disabled on purpose.

I think that means "no longer supported via maintenance", but I can see it either way.  Whether it's a bug or not, though, it's certainly harmless to enable it (as you can always just set everything to "disable"), so unless the program doesn't actually record it, I'll probably add it.