Probe Teams and SP

Pandemoniak · August 21, 2002, 12:43

How can a probe buy a city with three SP inside when it oviously dont have the money to buy them ?

1. The AI cheats
2. Its a bug
3. SP doesnt count for probe costs

If anyone has a formula, plz post it

Chowlett · August 21, 2002, 19:30

If you chose answer 1, you're probably right.

Main_Brain · August 22, 2002, 05:18

Its quite obvous esp. if oyu have infliltrated them (Yang ALWAYS runs negative Income

Yet he doesnt loose buildings due to that as far as I can see

Urban Ranger · August 22, 2002, 06:08

Damn it, when will people learn to stuff probe teams in their cities as defences against enemy probe teams?

tonic · August 23, 2002, 02:57

On the issue of AI cheats, it's annoying that the AI faction can station its probe teams in your territory ("We have no military units in your territory") when yours get sent back to your capital the next turn

Method · August 23, 2002, 10:02

if you attack them, you get a message come up

-leave them alone
-interrogate them and send them away (or something)
-attack them

choosing interrogate will send them back to their territory (unless you have a pact in which case you'll occupy the same tile

)

Lefty Scaevola · August 23, 2002, 10:35

Yup all you have to do is threaten them with a pair of cuticle scissors and force them out. But that does not work if you are pacted.

Urban Ranger · August 25, 2002, 13:42

Like what you can do to diplomats in Civ.

Skanderbeg · August 26, 2002, 05:36

For my knowledge, the AI cheats extremly in the costs of probe actions in relation to the costs the human player would have to pay for the same action.

Blake · August 26, 2002, 08:23

Yeah the AI cheats massively when it comes to mind control... moral of the story, bring along your own probes.

To deal with a pact mates probe team you can attack it with a probe of your own - this works really well for probes with fusion or better reactors, because the AI only builds fission probes.