Question

Capt Dizle · March 22, 2002, 14:49

Having just come back to SMAX from the disappointment of Civ3, I was fooling around and using one of the Aliens in a hotseat/pbem setup discovered the "brdige of the unity". This gave the comlinks for all the human players in the game. It also gave the humans the comlinks for each other, which is kinda lame to occur so early (10th turn I think).

Is this supposed to work this way? I don't remember and of course I never read manuals.

Ogie Oglethorpe · March 22, 2002, 15:42

JT,

Not as far as I recall. No the bridge I always thought simply gave starting locations but not comm frequencies.

hmm.....

Oh and welcome back from that other game to the one that Brian really made well

Og

Capt Dizle · March 22, 2002, 15:48

I am playing a seven player hotseat by myself to help me remember all the obsure tactical stuff so that I can get back in PBEM without being slaughtered. I am second time newbie!

Seriously, it did get out the comlinks, not just landing spots. Specifically, it gave the alien locations and links for all humans, and all humans got the links for all humans and the alien.

Again, I don't remember this happening. But, I am getting old so ....

RedFred · March 22, 2002, 17:07

Good to see another vet back in the game.

I play the aliens so rarely that I don't know if they get any bonus for the Unity bridge. So I don't know if this is another bu...feature of the game. But the humans for sure don't get comm links.

Ten turns. You were lucky to nab the crash site that early in any case. You still need social psych before you can talk to the humans.

I don't know if comm links help you that much as the progenitors in any case. The other progenitors hate you, and the humans are mostly unfriendly.

Capt Dizle · March 22, 2002, 18:43

Yes, the aliens can't talk to the humans but the humans can talk making the discovery in this case bad for the alien and early contact changes game dynamics so much.

Archaic · March 22, 2002, 18:56

The explanation is in the 7 player hotseat. You haven't disabled the "feature" that gives all human players every other human players comlink in multiplayer games, have you?

Capt Dizle · March 23, 2002, 00:34

Uh-oh!

Well, I am as I said, second time newbie.

jt

ps. not only that I don't even remember how to disable that...

Archaic · March 23, 2002, 00:44

Open Alphax.txt

About 10 rows from the bottom of the fundamental rules you've got an option saying "If non 0, players can always contact each other in hotseat/email games." Turn it to 0.

spartak · March 23, 2002, 17:04

Is it possible to access the "bridge" in SP?

Darius · March 25, 2002, 22:36

The Unity Bridge is a landmark that shows up sometimes in SMAX games. I don't think it matters whether it is SP or MP. It contains several other goodies besides the starting locations of the other factions. IIRC, it also contains a Unity chopper and a "mining laser" (a 2-1-1 infantry unit). The faction starting locations are in the square with a gizmo that looks like an antenna. The others are in squares with like cargo containers.

RedFred · March 26, 2002, 00:20

...and an energy core which seems to give you somewhere between 150 and 300 ecs.

In anticipation of the next question, iirc it is called a secondary core, not to be confused with the primary energy core which is still orbiting Planet. The orbiting core is the one that all factions get 500 ecs for salvaging after the appropriate vote by council.

I think anyone still wanting to pick up SMACX will have to search long and hard for it.