dosboxnewbie

First off, I just want to say a big thanks to all you people who keep this site running and the games available.

Now, the first time I played Reunion I did not know that there is a speed up feature and I also did not notice these "bugs" that are so often mentioned on the forum. Obviously, I lost the first couple of tries at Reunion because - well, like youmustbenuts said in section 11 of his/her rant: you have to know what's going to happen ahead of time. So, I tried playing the game again by using the sequence of saves which I had put together. It was *only* after I began using the speed up "feature" that I started noticing weird stuff going on - like losing a battle involving 8 of my fighters against 1 of their fighters and then getting a report that I lost 2000+ fighters , or that one where you try to invade Jade and there's a fleet of 200 Kall fighters that doesn't jive with your spy's report of the Kall fleet. After a few repetitions of reloading, speeding up and running into bugs, and paying attention to different counters, I came to the idea that these "bugs" are really just variations of one bigger counting critter which you will not see if you let the game run at its own pace - but which will surely show up as soon as you use the speed up feature.

I hope that helps.

I only ever made it to the point where I attacked the last opposing alliance race's homeworld (the homeworld of the race in system 6? with a picture of some kind of man bull in their description). I would win the space skirmish and I would win the ground battle itself but then some kind of error report would be displayed along with the victory report and the game would freeze. I briefly considered picking up again from an incorrupt save but the joy of the game had left me. For one, the resource transport system is a pain in the you know what; and second, I find it unfeasible to amass resources at the game's own pace (without using the "bug-inducing" speed up feature.) Ah, what a pity.