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Kemal
16-03-2008, 10:02
Perhaps some of the more experienced civ4 players can help with this?

After a long break from Civ4 I started another BTS game recently, and I'm now in the end-phase of the game, in the process of completing the spaceship.

There's two continents. I own a large part of my own continent, and have a small foothold on the other consisting of a few american cities, including former capital washington. There's no centre of government there though.

So how come that when on the turn I finish my SS-cockpit in one of my cities [u]right next to Babylon</u>, on my own continent, I get the message "an SS-cockpit has been destroyed [u]in Washington</u> by enemy infiltrators"? That's on an entirely different continent and has nothing to do with spaceship production whatsoever!

I did get the "Kemal has completed SS-cockpit", "Mira has added SS-cockpit to the space ship" messages and the add button for the cockpit on the space screen, but I still have to build a new one.

Totally lame and boring, since I had timed the parts to perfection and now it takes 7 more turns to complete the game. I would have accepted it if they have managed to sabotage in my own cities but like this...? [hmm]

BCLG100
16-03-2008, 14:31
I've never heard of it like that before- praps a bug? are you all patched up?

Matrix
16-03-2008, 15:09
Intriguing! Can't tell you the answer though. Keep up posted. [tongue]

Kemal
17-03-2008, 19:51
Some pics might illustratie things, note that the Americans just got destroyed by Zara Yakob, and part concerned was the stasis chamber, not the cockpit:


Destroyed by infiltrators in Washington:

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Kemal/200831719413_infiltrators.JPG
183.66*KB

Completed in Mari:

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Kemal/200831719422_Mari_chamber.JPG
161.96*KB

Add to SS-screen:

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Kemal/200831719438_SS_Schamber.JPG
112.45*KB

Yet still buildable:

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Kemal/2008317194332_Mari_chamber2.JPG
156.16*KB

Washington lightyears away from the action:

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Kemal/200831719444_washington.JPG
169.05*KB

Unfortunately, the save is too big to upload here... I tried to upload this stuff at CFC but the easy upload system is offline there. I did open a topic at CFC about it as well (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=267825), since if this is not a bug, it might be useful to prevent (AI) launches in the future using espionage. Sorry for the big pics, but shrinking them took away a lot of quality, using paint sucks. ;)

BCLG100
17-03-2008, 20:48
Yeah cfc easy upload is down forever apparantly.

Taking your time winning though weren't you ;)

Otherwise i have no ideas why this happened.

Kemal
17-03-2008, 21:04
Playing on a 1.4 Ghz 512 MB Ram PC, you really don't want to grab any domination or military type vics believe me, so I always go for the space ship... and it's also the reason why I'm upset about it, as 7 turns translates to about 2 hours of extra game time.. of which I have preciously little, I'm afraid.

BCLG100
17-03-2008, 21:07
Yeah know what you mean, my comp starts locking up and normally shutting civ down if i hit 1600 onwards.

I find domination or military vics help that as your knocking out the other civs so less for your comp to do (move their units etc)

Kemal
17-03-2008, 21:14
Agreed, thankfully 3 of the civs are out already. Thanks to Zara Yakob and his huge empire though, the others are simply too advanced/too big to take out by force easily.

Matrix
17-03-2008, 22:56
quote:Originally posted by Kemal

Playing on a 1.4 Ghz 512 MB Ram PC...
Half a gig is not enough by far. I strongly recommend buying an extra another GB of RAM. I've done exactly the same (from 0.5 to 1.5 GB) and the improvement was huge; and it's only like €10...

BCLG100
17-03-2008, 22:58
Some boards can only handle so much though, mine can only handle 1GB for instance.

grahamiam
18-03-2008, 03:04
Isn't destroying a spaceship part just a spy mission? Maybe that's the city that the spy was located in?? AFAIK, spaceship parts don't reside in specific cities.