Pirate Crew - roles and duties

[Mark123jansen]

Argh, here come's a dutch schipper, ready to plunder the spanish gallions, or if no spanish present their ships, I'll just settle for a couple of drone barges I just disembarked from my flagship the LurkHunter and am ready to pillage and plunder, or just manage my own little pirate hideout base.

[johndmuller]

Hi matey, welcome aboard. Ye'll find that we be a quiet forum at the moment; that be 'cause:

• shallow waters run quick;
• the xenorum's got my tongue;
• we usually use the funganet;
• riting's not out thing;
• we're all DL spies and are trying to maintain our cover;
• Awwkkk!;
• silence is golden.

[FlameFlash]

I'm going to have to go with:

Awwkkk!

[foolish_icarus]

Starting tomorrow I will be going on a trip which will last at least two weeks. I am unlikely to post during that time.

So until I return, no one take my stool in the tavern, and leave a lantern out, for cap’n Icarus ‘l be returnin with lots of loot, or at least a few new scars.

[Mark123jansen]

now that you mention it, I'll be out hunting for isles from july 3th till july 22nd.

[foolish_icarus]

Technical Question:

Do any of you with recent operating systems have trouble running SMAC/X? I just got a new computer (COMPAQ, Intel processor, Windows XP) and i cannot get it to run at all. THe only message it gives me is that "Your processor is not supported. You may try and run the program anyway but there may be errors."

Suggestions/possible remedies?

[johndmuller]

I don't have the problem, but I have seen numerous posts about it. There is an alphacentauri.ini file entry something like -use old (something) algorithm- set that to 1. As I understand it, you may get the message, but it will run OK anyway.

There are also some more serious difficulties apparently which affect only some people. OTOH, there is a supposed XP compatibility patch which may or may not fix those and/or your problems and which may or may not also fix a few of the SMAC bugs (GA pop boom for Yang and Morgan & maintenance bugs) which if used could cause distortions in any SMAC PBEMS you might be in if others are using unpatched versions.

[Hercules]

Try the SMAC/Smax help threads here at 'Poly or at the Civgaming.net forum. as JohnD says it is known about and there is a reltively easy fix.

[Mark123jansen]

I had the same problem with my pentiumIV processor, heres the reply I got from firaxis tech support:

Subject
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I have both alpha centauri and alien crossfire, but they won't work on my pen...


Discussion Thread
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Response (Box Souman B.) - 10/28/2002 11:23 AM
Hello,

Thank you for contacting me. You will need to edit one of the game's
configuration files. Look for the file "Alpha Centauri.Ini" it is located at
"C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri". It looks like a
notepad document with a little gold symbol on it. A line within Alpha
Centauri.ini will look like this:

[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=0

You want to change the value to one. When you are finished, you should see:

[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1

You will still receive the message stating that the processor is not supported,
but clicking OK no longer results in an immediate crash.

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Customer - 10/27/2002 01:08 PM
I have both alpha centauri and alien crossfire, but they won't work on my
pentium 4 2gigahertz pc, it always gives the error message cpu is incompatible,
how can i solve this??



Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts Technical Support. Souman B.

[Hercules]

Yeah, well done Mark. that is it.

[foolish_icarus]

thanks