Resonance Armored Impact Bug

Helium Pond · March 28, 2000, 15:53

I'm not sure how, but a 4-3r-1 unit appeared in my production options, way before I'd discovered resonance armor. It had a little asterisk next to its name, which I've never seen before. The only thing I can think of is that I'd mind-controlled such a unit at around the same time. If I accessed the unit in the workshop, and clicked on the armor, 3r armor did *not* show up as an option. However, if I'd had a cheating disposition, I could have modified the chassis, etc, to make other units with the armor.

1) Anyone seen this before? How does it happen?

2) What does the asterisk mean?

Tau Ceti · March 28, 2000, 16:45

1) You always get a prototype of units you have mind controlled, and can build them freely thereafter. I would not consider modifying this prototype to be a cheat; if you can build the units as they are, you should also be able to reverse engineer the technology and use it in other units.

kaz · March 28, 2000, 20:49

Tau Ceti is right.

On one of my first games I was playing the Hive, and they got Airpower way before me, then hit a inner base with a mass of planes and a marine and rover.

I mind controlled the base to get it back(just happened to have 2000 ec in the bank), and I then had jets of my own, which I used to bomb him back to the stone age.

Helium Pond · March 29, 2000, 12:55

Thanks!
I guess the asterisk indicates a unit designed from a captured unit.