Boils?

Closey · March 18, 2001, 07:19

Ok, here's the deal. I've been playin a lot of SMAC/X.. and today, for the first time, a friend of mine get's a Boil unit. I knew they were in there since I had seen them in the units.pcx file, but they'd never shown up when I've played. So, what's the story with them? They're not in the Datalinks nor the manual, and they don't seem to be very powerful either. 3-1-1 if I recall it correctly. Anyone got a theory about them?

mark13 · March 18, 2001, 08:53

Yeah, I have seen these a lot - it happens when you start a SMAC scenario in SMACX. Don't know what they are, or how they work - just another bug in the game, I guess....

Cybergod · March 18, 2001, 09:05

Erm... sorry for being dumb but what's a boil? Do you mean the mindworm boil or something else? If you can, send a small cut pic from the units.pcx to the forum.

Closey · March 18, 2001, 11:20

Sure

Anyone know what this is then? Never seen it in the game..

Closey · March 18, 2001, 11:23

Oh, yeah.. the first picture was the Boil.

knowhow2 · March 18, 2001, 11:34

no never seen this before...

YO! you stupid swede! ( I am kidding for all of you who didn't got it )

hur e leget?

Closey · March 18, 2001, 11:51

Look, a fellow Swede!

Allt bra här.. Hur står det till nere i söder då?

Många svenskar här annars?

Cybergod · March 18, 2001, 11:52

Hmm... The top picture looks familiar... Oh yes! I remember *grin*. It appeared when I entered a wrong number in the faction file, eg. UNIT, 25. The graphic seems to be used for any user-errors or version errors the program runs into (SMAC to SMAX or other way rouind, I DO NOT KNOW).

Hey why cuss Sweedes?

Cybergod · March 18, 2001, 11:53

Hmm... The top picture looks familiar... Oh yes! I remember *grin*. It appeared when I entered a wrong number in the faction file, eg. UNIT, 25. The graphic seems to be used for any user-errors or version errors the program runs into (SMAC to SMAX or other way rouind, I DO NOT KNOW).

Hey why cuss Sweedes?

Cybergod · March 18, 2001, 11:55

Whoops! Double Double post!

BTW when do I get upgraded from settler to 'something else'?

Closey · March 18, 2001, 11:58

When you've posted enough posts. Actually you could have read about it when you registred..

(Hmm.. Maybe it wasn't there.. but it was somewhere tho) Can't remember exactly how many posts each level is.. but it's in a faq somewhere.

[This message has been edited by Closey (edited March 18, 2001).]

Closey · March 18, 2001, 14:59

Ok, thanks for the info. I recognized the rest of the units, but those two didn't ring a bell. There seems to be a lot of old junk left in those files tho

LoD · March 18, 2001, 16:22

A lot of useful junk, might I add

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LoD

Closey · March 18, 2001, 16:47

Useful? For what? Making cusom stuff? I never thought about it as useful actually, more like interesting and fun stuff.

What about that Baron-Krypto Space-Puppy in icons.txt? That's not in the game now is it?

knowhow2 · March 18, 2001, 18:04

Bara du och jag, hittills

for the next "title" chieftain, like mine you need to have at least 31 and the next is 101 (warlord), you can read about this at FAQ (on the top of the forum - small blue text)

Closey · March 18, 2001, 18:30

Okej, skumma svenskar.. spelar de inte Alpha? Eller har de bara inte lyckats hitta ut på nätet än?

Ah.. so there's the faq.. I should have been able to see it when I said there was a faq somewhere. I've even read it.. Oh well..

LoD · March 19, 2001, 01:09

Seems to be a rare bug.

Closey: The second picture is the early unit picture of a conventional missile (before Firaxis iplemented 3d caviar models). It is basically a leftover from the design process. FYI, all the icons in the units.pcx file, going from top to bottom are:

Colony Pod
Formers
Alien Artifact
Mind Worms (in all lifecicle stages)
Isle of the Deep (in all lifecicle stages)
Locusts of Chiron
Probe Team (and on the right a cursor)
Conventional Missile
Planet Buster

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RedFred · March 19, 2001, 02:38

The "boil" unit appears reliably if you mistakenly open up a SMAC game with SMACX.

Sprayber · March 19, 2001, 02:45

quote:

Originally posted by Closey on 03-18-2001 03:47 PM
Useful? For what? Making cusom stuff? I never thought about it as useful actually, more like interesting and fun stuff.

What about that Baron-Krypto Space-Puppy in icons.txt? That's not in the game now is it?

Yes, someone do tell us about that dog. Where is it? What do you have to do to get it?