I shot myself!

Ned · February 17, 2003, 15:47

Has anyone seen this? It happend to me in a recent game.

I had artillery on the shore and an artillery piece in an adjacent base. Just after a fungal bloom offshore, I was using artillery piece on the beach to shoot at fungus hoping to hit any lurking Isles of the Deep. When I shot the fungus, it was empty of native life. Apparently the AI thought I was attacking the fungus. My own artillery piece in the base defended; and the two the artillery pieces fought together until one of them was destroyed. I believe it was the one of them in the base.

Amazing!

Method · February 17, 2003, 18:25

artillery acts weird all the time. like when spore launchers attack each other in a pop

Ned · February 17, 2003, 18:45

Yeah, the two native spore launchers attacking each other is a close analogy to what happened.

However, I have never seen this reported here before and I have been posting here since '99.

Petek · February 17, 2003, 19:40

Also have never seen or heard of this. Do you by any chance have a save file from a previous turn that you could post?

Datajack Franit · February 17, 2003, 20:03

Or a screenshot, even better

Ned · February 18, 2003, 11:45

Sorry, but it happened twice in the same game. So, I think it is repeatable.

Cedayon · February 18, 2003, 13:53

Just bombard some of your own (ie in your own territory) squares with another of your artillery pieces nearby... the duel should ensue.

spartak · February 18, 2003, 14:52

Frankychan · February 19, 2003, 03:36

Damn....the weirdest thing I saw was two Demon Boils controlled by the A.I. go at it.

Now THAT was dumb.

The Mad Monk · February 20, 2003, 05:02

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Originally posted by Frankychan
Damn....the weirdest thing I saw was two Demon Boils controlled by the A.I. go at it.

Now THAT was dumb.

The mind worms are like antibodies, right? Sometimes antibodies get the wrong instructions and start attacking the body, so this is just reflecting reality.

See? It's not a bug, it's a feature!

MariOne · February 20, 2003, 07:04

the auto-immune feature: first shoot, then ask

johndmuller · February 20, 2003, 13:56

I had something similar occur with a spore launcher (mine) and a warship. IIRC, the SL was in the base and I had just had a >pop<, so I bombarded the >popped< tile to see if there was any native life in it; I probably bombarded with the warship, but I don't remember. In this case, I think that it did not go to the death, but just resulted in my warship losing a few hitpoints. At the time, I just attributed it to that same glitch with the SL's that has already been mentioned. Perhaps I'll go to an old save and see if I can replicate something like this.

Datajack Franit · February 20, 2003, 16:40

Now that you mention it, ever tried to releasing mindworms and destroying them in order to get some quick cash? If you'll manage to destroy the very first mindworms you built, a message will appear, and your faction leader will ask the troops to.. destroy your own headquarters to the ground, as retailation

Method · February 20, 2003, 18:03

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Originally posted by Datajack Franit
If you'll manage to destroy the very first mindworms you built, a message will appear, and your faction leader will ask the troops to.. destroy your own headquarters to the ground, as retailation