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Offline T-hawk

Found a bug with nerve stapling
« on: November 27, 2018, 05:03:20 PM »
Found this interesting bug.  Probably not worth anyone's effort to patch but I just wanted to write about it.

Base A is under the effect of a nerve stapling.  It builds something in order to trigger the "zoom to base" popup window.  While in that base screen, you use F4 to switch to the view of Base B instead, then hit OK in the Base B screen.  The time remaining on the nerve stapling is decremented from Base B instead of Base A!

If Base A builds something every turn, it's possible to have its nerve stapling last forever by doing this every turn.  And if Base B isn't currently stapled, nothing seems to happen.  So you can actually keep many bases perpetually stapled if you have one sacrificial base to switch to during production upkeep every time.

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Re: Found a bug with nerve stapling
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2018, 05:10:15 AM »
So that's how Yang kept the drones under control.  Who knew?

 

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