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Hi.

I got a Problem with the Windows Version I downloaded here...
It crashes very often, and it crashes ALWAYS when I am at Transfer Window and klick at Abort, so the game is not useable anymore with 10 crashes in 1 hour, have anyone Ideas what the problem could be ?!

Greetings

Shadow

[laiocfar]

I got a Problem with the Windows Version I downloaded here...
It crashes very often, and it crashes ALWAYS when I am at Transfer Window and klick at Abort, so the game is not useable anymore with 10 crashes in 1 hour, have anyone Ideas what the problem could be ?!

Hi Shadow,
This is a new bug(the crash inside the trasfer window), can u add under wich SO are u running the game and if u are using Dos Box or similar, the version? By the way, about crashes, the game didn´t crash randomly. It always fails at the same pont, for example it can fail in the X turn of a mission. To avoid mission crashes load before the start of the mission so it goes rebuilded and no crashes will affect it. Crashes outside missions are less common but not impossible, so load inside the last mission or restart the game There isn´t another solution. Anyway the game didn´t crash too much, it shouldn´t happens more that once a month. I don´t know another solution that use save slots as backup

Whoaaaa this is one BIG topic :D

Appropriate for such masterful game :)

NEways, when I played it for the first time somewhere in '96-'97 on my 386, I've tried to do something which brought me to something totally different :))

The thing is, I've played civ1 a lot then, and in civilisation 1, when you press ctrl+(1-9) you get the special symbols (coin, man, etc)...
SO
Being a kid with nothing better to do, I've tried to enter CTRL+3 (or 2, I cannot remember) into the savegame name during a battle in UFO, and a strange thing happened...

...the mission ended, with the results of a previous mission! :D :D :D

So, I figured out I can use that glitch to my advantage:
-Finish the mission with, say, 150 elerium loot
-Intercept and down a small or large scout
-Start battle, do CTRL+number trick
-Get 150 elerium! YAY! :D
-goto 10 :)

I dunno if anyone has already found this trick, i cannot read the 150 something pages in two months time :)

...Hope it helps!

Patented by Mrmot :)

[gufu1992]

cheater! :not_ok:

[another_guest]

I've heard about that cheat/error before, but then people were saying ctrl+c was the combination. Never put it to the test though.

[Kearnsy]

Oh come on! Managing the Elierium is one of the only challenging elements to the geoscape mode! Dont take all the fun out of it.

[gufu1992]

Cheat dowsn't work at all!
CHEERS

[Cockroach]

It's ctrl+c. It causes the tactical program to exit without overwriting the log files from the old mission and when geoscape comes back up and reads the unchanged files from the mission before.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by Kearnsy@Jan 8 2006, 03:36 AM
Oh come on! Managing the Elierium is one of the only challenging elements to the geoscape mode! Dont take all the fun out of it.

And not so challenging if you're a little careful

- Just use laser rifles or captured plasma / heavy plasma clips so you don't waste any elerium on ammo. The same with blaster bombs.
- Keep interceptors (if you have the money) to shoot down tiny ufo's. Sending an avenger to take down a small vessel is a waste of elerium. Either the lightning or the firestorm consumes less elerium than the avenger, so that's also an option if you want to avoid the $ 600 K cost every month from the interceptors.
- Missions with landed (as opposed to shot down) ufo's are the perfect elerium source. Just be careful inside that you don't blow up those precious reactors or however these are called.
- Never sell elerium.

[blue123]

Originally posted by Cockroach@Jan 8 2006, 05:26 AM
It's ctrl+c. It causes the tactical program to exit without overwriting the log files from the old mission and when geoscape comes back up and reads the unchanged files from the mission before.

It doesn't work in my version... I think. But it should be useful if you've been hunting one alien for 300 turns.