Strange events

[Reactor]

Greetings, fighters!

I wonder if you encountered anything unusual, or strange during the game. Like unusual AI acts,or any weird happenings.

I encountered the following: The AI somehow starts to "learn" after several practice games. I started a game with 4 enemies (3 Atreides and 1 Ordos). I was also Atreides. After 2 hours of game, the Ordos gained Airstrikes and Fremen somehow. It was unusual,because the AI always sold the captured stuff before. It seems that the Ordos AI kept an Atreides construction yard for a short period of time, while it built up the Atreides Hi-tech, and Palace, and sold it only after it. Would this be possible?

[Reactor]

Another strange event. It occurred today.

I was playing Practice mission, with 4 opponents. When I defeated one of them, a few harvesters remained. I accidently deviated them (I was with Ordos), and they haven't changed back. No matter what I did, I shot them, I lead them into spice blooms, they remained mine. It was strange :)

[ophiruslevus]

I have a strange event, when I start to play online the game freezes! ;)

[Reactor]

Another strange event, which occurred today.

I played 'gainst the AI, with 6 players. I was wit' Atreides. When I destroyed the harvesters of my last opponent ('twas an Atreides as well), it - as always - sold all his buildings. One of the Light infantrymen which appeared from the closed building was INVINCIBLE!!! I shot him with Devast

[MrFlibble]

Maybe th light inf is always invincible for some time while it emerges from a building being sold? And here a bug of sorts made the game 'forget' to turn the infy back to normal ???

[Reactor]

Yes, this is a possible explanation for this event. 'Twas quite strange I tell you, the Light infantrymen hadn't move or shoot, it just standed there, and was invincible :) I think you're right, the game forgot to apply the normal infantry properties,after the building have been closed.

[MrFlibble]

Didn't you try to crush it with vehicles? I guess it was immune to that too, right?

Maybe it stuck on some specific terrain (you know, like in C&C or RA1, when infantries could stick on cliffs when emerging from sold/destroyed strcutures) ???

[Reactor]

I managed to kill him after I moved my army from him :) I'll keep this savegame just in case somebody wants to witness it :)

[MrFlibble]

Why don't you post it here?

[Reactor]

It's in one of my home-made levels, and you won't be able to open it. But I shall pack it with my map, and there ya go... :)

[Reactor]

Two more strange events, I found out these today:

Disappearing sand dunes - When a spice bloom "explodes" near a dune-wrinkled land, the "clusters" erase out the dunes, and creates normal sand instead.

Invulnerable Carryalls - Shiroko mentioned that if a Carryall becomes destroyed while transportin' a unit, both will be destroyed. This doesn't seem to be right. If a Carryall carries a unit, and there are Missile tanks around, no matter how many times they shot the aeroplane wit' the carried unit, it cannot be destroyed . I experimented wit' it within 30 minutes, when a Carryall brought back a Harvester to the opponent's base ruins, but nothing happened. At least 200 missiles have been fired at the Carryall.

[AMIgaBot]

well i know better

if you can build on white sand (make sure worms are on) put thumper near place where you build on white sand, build heavy factory and produce tank .. see what will happen worm will attack tank inside of factory

for making buldings on white sand as DRFsimmsy or muis2004 or ophirus

[Reactor]

What do you mean by "building on white sand"?

Y'cannot build on sand y'know. Only the bare rock area is allowed for buildings.

This worm-trick sounds fascinating. I would like to give it a try.

[AMIgaBot]

I CAN BUILD ON WHITE SAND

and i dont need any mods to do it, it works for online playing too. its easy to learn that trick

screenshots available.

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[Reactor]

I haven't knew this. Building on Spice? Excellent!

Submit this as a trick to Shiroko. I'm sure he'll appreciate it.  :D

[AMIgaBot]

if you want i can give a savegame with buldings on white sand.  i can herre explain this trick, its very very easy to do. :P

also i heard about trick to get trike in wind trap, but i not tested it yet.

[Hunoa]

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Flippin great...

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