Plague bomb..

oleg · #1 June 29th, 2003, 12:16 PM

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Originally posted by Q:
Have you tried medical bays (e.g. on a space station)? As far as I know it cures plagues immediately, while the facilities apparently only work when you process the turn.

I can't

JLS moded AIC in a way medical bay cures plague I only. For higher levels you must build special facilities (like medlab)

Oh. sorry. AIC still have them. Just different name. Will try

But, if buildings can not stop plague for first tun, it keeps AI vulnerable ! It should be immune to plague - several AI buildings have build-in plague prevention, but if it doesnot work...

[ June 29, 2003, 11:54: Message edited by: oleg ]

Taera · #2 June 29th, 2003, 08:04 PM

oleg: that means Mechanoid racial trait is finaly worthwhile...

Grandpa Kim · #3 June 30th, 2003, 05:26 AM

Oleg, I agree that something is not right here; those facilities should stop the plague before it destroys the colonly. Perhaps 10% population loss before total cure.

But let me point out that a couple of light cruisers with ordinary weapons could wipe out a small colony just as quickly as plague.

Fyron · #4 June 30th, 2003, 05:30 AM

In simultaneous move games, plagues do one turn of damage before being cured by facilities. I am not sure what happens in sequential games though.

Taera · #5 June 30th, 2003, 10:13 AM

you get to cure it IF your after the damaged player? just a thought

oleg · #6 June 30th, 2003, 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by Grandpa Kim:
Oleg, I agree that something is not right here; those facilities should stop the plague before it destroys the colonly. Perhaps 10% population loss before total cure.

But let me point out that a couple of light cruisers with ordinary weapons could wipe out a small colony just as quickly as plague.

Yes, but it was the AIC game and I had a very nice Proportionesque colony with 20+ weapon platforms !

It decimated a big enemy fleet without loss of a single WP ! But one frigate sneaked and drop plague bomb before been blown from sky. It was enough

How it did happened - small ships in AIC can be very fast. Fazrah' frigates have 6 moves per combat turn (contrterran engines). Plague bomb has a range of 5. My small WP had a range of 10. Thus, by pure luck one frigate just jumped in and droped the bomb.

JLS, let's give plague bomb range of 1 - that should give a chance for the planet to defend itself !

Loser · #7 July 1st, 2003, 01:08 AM

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Originally posted by oleg:
JLS, let's give plague bomb range of 1 - that should give a chance for the planet to defend itself !

Aren't they more interesting as a viable weapon?