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Re: Death of an advanced unit
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 02:35, Hans Ronne wrote:
> >Did you enable "Last side wins" or "Last alliance wins"? Without either
> >of those variants, there is no scorekeeper, and the AI probably won't
> >know what to do. According to my testing, it will build more than just
> >troops if "Last side wins" is enabled; you can expect to see it build at
> >least some engineers, probes, and shuttles. However, I never see it
> >build any shipyards, and it often leaves space-colony units incomplete.
>
> Yes, I did that. It still kept building zillions of troops. And a few
> engineers.
What about shuttles? I tried it both ways on my computer, and with
"Last side wins" enabled, I saw it build enough shuttles to (sort of)
get its troops and engineers around. Of course, if I played against the
AI, I'd be moving so much more quickly and efficiently that it wouldn't
stand a chance against me.
>
> I tried to reproduce the crashes, but failed. If I upgrade a city manually
> everything works fine. I never saw the AI upgrade a city so far. Do I
> understand you correctly that you crash only when the AI upgrades a city,
> not when you do it yourself?
No, I saw it crash when *anyone* tried to upgrade a city.