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[axident]

Originally posted by Fama@Apr 5 2005, 08:36 PM
Something just happened... Not fun in a way, but in a way still fun* :blink:
Ok. So. Some random crash place... Didn't pay any attention. I'm still kinda noobish so I sent 1/2 of my skyrangers there... Gave a blaster launcher to a girl with x (bad psi strength), but I thought it wouldn't hurt... You can just see it coming, can't ya?* LOL

Well, not exactly that.

But anyway.

I sent 1 guy off to left of the ramp, looking around. Spotted an ethereal. Heavy laser aimed shot... miss. Then I remember the blaster launcher girl... So I thought I'll unload the BL. Well, it wasn't loaded, so I loaded it and shot the ethereal. Almost, that is. I guess is was the unaccyracy of the BL, but it was supposed to go like this: BL shot out of Skyranger, around it, landing on ethereal.

It went like this: BL shot flies clean out of the skyranger and... flies back in. Killing 5 out of my 6 guys. Fun. Kinda. Not. Anyway, I guess it's because of the inaccuracy of the BL? Can't be anything else now can it? Oh well. I guess I'll finish the mission later. Just don't wanna do it right now*

I think Jman is right; you were probably trying to tell the bomb to go from right over the head of the target to the ground the target was standing on, but the game doesn't allow that vertical-style movement. It's annoying, but just try to move diagonally-down (or up, for that matter), and don't aim for the target, set one waypoint in front of the target, another behind the target, etc.:

[6][4][2]target[1] [3][5] = five chances to hit the target.

Originally posted by Jman4117@Apr 5 2005, 07:23 PM
try the f0dder loader.

I´m sorry, but what does that mean?

I would ignore the bug, but the message comes every minute or so, and I have to switch back towindows and enter the game again. It´s really tedious after a while.

[efthimios]

It appears to be some kind of a front end with editing of the game. I haven't tried it but I did download it after the recommendation. (thanks)

I am in the process of solving the problem I mentioned earlier, I will post here if I manage to.

[another_guest]

By the way, it is possible to reclaim countries that signed a pact with the aliens. Though it looks like you need to destroy an alien base in that country; one is enough, even if there are more alien bases in the same country.

[Spookyfish]

By the way, it is possible to reclaim countries that signed a pact with the aliens. Though it looks like you need to destroy an alien base in that country; one is enough, even if there are more alien bases in the same country.

But... If there aren't any bases in the country of interest... Then what :blink:?

Originally posted by Jman4117@Apr 5 2005, 08:57 PM
You probably made the bomb move vertical. They put a bug into the Windows version that makes the bomb go back south if you set the points for it to go straight up. But....if you are sneaky with it, you can make the bomb fly off of the screen then it will reappear at the next waypoint. :P

Hmm. I think I did, but not at that point. It went like this:


2 2
SS
SS
SS
SS

1
E 2
2

If I remember it correctly. S is the skyranger, E the ethereal and 1 & 2 are waypoints for the corresponding altitude. Or something.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by Spookyfish@Apr 6 2005, 11:46 AM
But... If there aren't any bases in the country of interest... Then what :blink:?

Apparently such countries can be reclaimed as well. Though it happened to me after I built an own base there, I'm not sure if that has any influence or not...

[Rogue]

You don't have to have a base in the country to have high revenue.

Just shoot down all UFOs and don't allow to destroy them, as that brings negative points. (Not sure, but I believe that if you shoot UFO over watter, it will bring also negative points)

Also make sure you got all landed UFOs and all Terror sites.

[another_guest]

I don't know for all ufo types, but shooting terror ships over water will still get you a net +500 points.
Shooting down small ufos doesn't get you anything (or at least hardly noticeable, certainly less than 100 each, maybe 50).
Letting your base's defenses blow up a ufo doesn't influence your score either, whereas I got a few hundred points from shooting it down on its way to my base.

And indeed having a base in a country doesn't get you any points, but I wondered whether it helped reclaiming a country. I remember I'd built a base there, still without any detectors, radars or hangars, and kept attacking ufos like I'd always done... Surprisingly enough the next month that country started paying me again.

[Rogue]

I got points too, but country stoped with paying me. Not sure if there is any connection between those two, but I've read somewhere that they programmed so that country is not happy with destroyed UFO, and they cut support. BUt as I already said, it might be not wrong...