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hey i don't suppose anyone here knows how to get the bomber AI to work on a dedicated server?
The GP coop servers have a problem where once the AI researches bombers, they all grab a bomber and proceed to roll off the runway into the ocean, where they very slowly die.
Makes the game crazy easy and boring.

I noticed the occasionally up "Matrixcraft" coop server doesn't have this problem, but its only got 2 bots, which is just as bad, if not worse.

Been playing this a bit, its good.

Looks and runs great on my aging Core2Quad 2.83 with 4gb ram and nvidia 9800GT, though generating planets in the beginning takes a good 5 minutes. More if i want spherical worlds (and i do).

Bought it and intended to buy a 2nd copy for a mate, (to do battle!) but it barely runs on his mac laptop thing (running XP).
Buying it gives access to multiplayer and Spaceships. There's no master server, and you cant join a game in progress (or even see it)  so you need to set up a game and tell your mates your IP address so they can join. You can play over LAN too.

Development speed seems fast and the dev seems very open to suggestions.

There isn't much in the way of help, and the wiki didn't much help either, but everything craftable shows its cost ingame in the construction menu.

I haven't played it in years, but supposedly Karadoc's mod fixes alot of these balance issues.  The Megapol mod might also be interesting.
http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/x-com-apocalypse/mods/


It is funny you gave props to Interceptor but not Enforcer.  Enforcer was just such a shitty and pointless DOOM-clone.

wow Apoc mods! I never even thought.
Thx dude, i'm gonna have to give em a go.

And lol @ enforcer.  It and interceptor had nothing in common. It was just trash.

Wow looking forward to this.

Though i would have preferred Imperium Galactica 3 haha, i really think they had something going with that series.

Cheers, i'll sign up then

i went with not certain.

I see your points there, but really, I've never bought an unplayable game.
If it's just outright crap, then that was my fault for not looking it up or asking around first.

as an example I've bought JoWood games in the past, and now i avoid buying them now because they tend to be pretty buggy. Unless i hear really good things about them. Then maybe.

I think a little foresight or maybe just a glass of concrete is better than a bunch of new laws aimed at giving consumers immunity from their own mistakes.

Maybe you don't consider it a mistake not trying to find some info about a $100 game you're about to buy, but I do. So if in my negligence i buy some crap i hate (Wild Metal Country comes to mind, $30 if i remember correctly) then i learn my lesson.

Fair enough if it just doesn't work, but in that case you can send it back and get it replaced from the publisher (or even just download patches). Warhammer online for example didn't even run after i excitedly installed it the day it came out. I think no Australian version did, as the executable on the CD was corrupt. A quick google search told me the answer, i found that i could send it back and they'd send me a new CD. Another quick search showed that i could just download the executable and play now. I didn't even bother with the new CD.
Maybe i should be all up in arms about it but really, 30mins of finding and fixing the problem wasn't at all a hassle.

For some animals it seems you can train them without resorting to modding.
Bears for example you can train to war or hunting bears. I'm pretty sure you can train cougars too.

I mean, i'm quite sure i've trained cougars yet i've never changed the raws.

so build the cage somewhere, (q) over it, unassign the animal in it with enter (the animal in it is at the top of the list, maked with +, enter on it will remove the +), wait for a dwarf to free the animal, then finally (q) over the kennels and train a war or hunting animal. you dont get a choice which animal to train but if you simply put the train job on repeat it'll eventually train the cougar.