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What's your "favorite" exploit? (Time out:0 days after 05-06-2004, 04:09)
Stockpile in Build Queue Bug
Instant Elite Units on Patrol
Move and Form
Farm+Mine/Solar on Volcano
Upgrade Probes to Rovers
Automated Interceptors
Rename Undiscovered Landmark Tiles
SE Quickies for Diplomacy
Crawler Upgrade
Multiple Airdrops
Upgrade in the Unit Workshop and Move
Rehome to Pactmates
Other
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Straybow is offline Straybow
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Well, I just had to try the multiple airdrop. Doesn't work with a drop transport type unit (I've wanted to experiment with that for a while, too). They always get their movement used up when the drop. Otherwise land units work just fine.

I also had to try the disband all and respawn with a former trick. Cool, except for some reason I didn't get rovers, transport foils, and one or two other basic unit types show up when I got the tech. All units added to the list (appearing after Unity Foil) did show up as scheduled.

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Chieftain

Jun 2004
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Save&reload, the classical way of cheating. Works in just about every game, even if the game preserves random number generator seed. Yes, you can fool the RNG by doing some action in the game which requires random numbers so that the result of your next action (which is why you are reloading) is changed.

You can apply save&reload to this ridiculous exploit:
- save game
- press ctrl+k to activate scenario editor
- now you can see the whole map
- reload so that you don't get "Cheated!" text in your score screen.

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Nov 2003
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Kind of hard to do in MP, though.

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Jun 2004
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quote:
Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
Kind of hard to do in MP, though.

I don't play MP.

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Save & reload isn't an exploit, it is more a style of play

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Nov 2003
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I guess you could play like that. Sort of takes the fun out of the game, though.

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Jun 2004
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Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
I guess you could play like that. Sort of takes the fun out of the game, though.

Hey, doesn't nearly every one of these exploits ruin any possible fun in the game?

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Nov 2003
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At the end of a game, I'd like to say that the victory required as much skill as possible, while I still 0wn3d the competition.
Hrm, so different levels of exploits for different people.
* Enigma_Nova reactivates his formers again

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Prince
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Dec 2003
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Which is why someone suggested playing with automated everything.

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Jan 2004
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I've got whacked when I tried that...

But everything was automated, even productions from bases under siege.

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Apr 2004
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How do you do multiple airdrops? Sounds interesting.

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My favorite exploit is posting on Apolyton while at work and getting paid for it.

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Nov 2003
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It's not like your work requires you to do anything productive...

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Mar 2004
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Suffering from ads?

Perhaps they should make it so that you can't turn off the game until you win (or lose). It would kind of force you to take whatever you get...

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Nov 2003
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Yeah, and they should install plenty of adware.

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Feb 2004
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My favorite exploit is posting on Apolyton while at work and getting paid for it.


That has to be the #1 exploit.

-S

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Mar 2004
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My favorite exploit is posting on Apolyton while at work and getting paid for it.




I second that. It is about the only reason I stay at this job.

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Nov 2003
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Any possiblity of getting a job that has you work longer hours (and conversely earn more money for posting on 'poly)?

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Mar 2004
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For me? no....They pay me to have my butt in a seat ready to take care of Lusers 8 to 5, busy or not. They HATE to pay any over time, the cheap bastards Kid you not, I have been in trouble for clocking out at 5:09

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Hmmm...
Is there any way to increase your 'poly time?
Maybe live closer to work?
Or better yet, rent an office and camp in there.

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How do you do multiple airdrops? Sounds interesting.
With an airdroppable unit you can right-click on a tile and choose "airdrop here." This operation doesn't properly set the airdrop flag if the target is a base, so you can "daisy chain" your way across your empire's bases.

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Hmmm...
Is there any way to increase your 'poly time?
Maybe live closer to work?
Or better yet, rent an office and camp in there.


Hmm....considering I had my truck stolen while I was at work a few weeks back, I'm not sure I'd want to live here.

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This operation doesn't properly set the airdrop flag if the target is a base


Actually you don't have to land in a base. You can just right click repeatedly all over the map, no limits. Of course you still lose the 20% health per drop, but I think it maxs out once you reach 10% health.

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Yeah, you can just keep bouncing around the map like an idiot until you've mapped any continent within 8 spaces of another continent.

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Thanks for the Air Drop info. Now there's one I have to try.

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The airdrop exploit is fixed in SMAX with the latest patches, perhaps even earlier.

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Nov 2003
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I wouldn't know, I never try.

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Dec 2003
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Um. No it's not (Paradrop Bug). I just tried on SMAX v2 w/ XP patch.

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Um. No it's not (Paradrop Bug). I just tried on SMAX v2 w/ XP patch.


Same here, and I am fully patched.

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So we can bounce around like an idiot all over the map?
Cool. I'll remember not to do that.

 
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