PBEM doch mal wieder

[Armageddon]

Hi guys,

here's my turn and maybe bad news. I got contact to all human players as well.
Does it mean we have to start over?

[Hagen0]

There is a line in alphax.txt:

1, ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in hotseat/email games

Set it to zero. I have tested it with one of the old saves and got rid of the erroneous contacts. There should not have been any harm done. Roze's ability only works with faction that got infiltrated.

[ComCitCat]

This matches my experiences.

Achtung Spoiler:

Its been a while but i once tested the effects of changing the alpha while playing:
If i recall it in the right way, i forgot to change the alpha after reinstalling and got cheap crawlers (30Mins instead of 50) when i invented industrial automation. I did not want to play with cheap crawlers and therefore i saved the game, changed the alpha and loaded. But i got no effect at all. The crawlers remained cheap.
To get the changed alpha working i had to reload an older savegame and research indauto again.

This may seem contradictionary at first side but knowing SMAC - well -
The point is that researching indauto gives new options for the workshop meaning there is an "proofen" effect - setting the crawlermodule in my workshop and linking it to specified fixcosts. In contrast to having comfrequences without using them (and strictly speaking not even having them but beeing able to contact without).
I'ld assume the comfrequenzes won't vanish if u already had used them.

Regarding this i would strongly recommend using the alphax from here, else u might end up with cheap crawlers, which would be bad for the everyone else and expensive fighters which would be a desaster for u.

additionally
Roze gets huge advantages for probeactions and - more important - probedefence. But its bugged. If the probevalue (social engeeniering) is higher than 3 it's set to 0.
Instead of being immune to quite a lot probeteamactions Roze becomes quite vulnerable.
We could make a rule not to use probeteam actions which should not be possible when this becomes true.

Well the turn ...

[Eric-tRed]

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I dont have the Communication Bug do I also have to change/exchange the alphax.txt? (I copied the one from Darkside before we started)

[ComCitCat]

I'ld assume Darkside already used the right one. So probably you don't.

[Hagen0]

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