Drop Pod and other questions

New player here and I have a couple questions:

1. What causes the notice "Enemy Air defenses prevent you from dropping here"? Provided that I cleared out the base and was moving in for the kill against the Believers in my game.

2. Is the Singularity gun supposed to be silent

3. At what difficulty level does the AI build planet busters?

4. I can't tell what talents look like. I see Doctors, workers, empaths, thinkers, techies, and when I took one of the Peacekeeper cities some glowy looking figures IDK what they are supposed to be.

Other than some confusion this is an epic game.

edingess said:

New player here and I have a couple questions:

1. What causes the notice "Enemy Air defenses prevent you from dropping here"? Provided that I cleared out the base and was moving in for the kill against the Believers in my game.

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Aerospace Complex in the target base. You can't airdrop within a tile of a base with an Aerospace Complex.

2. Is the Singularity gun supposed to be silent

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No; this may be a problem in your installation.

3. At what difficulty level does the AI build planet busters?

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I believe at any difficulty level, but they rarely make use of them except at very high difficulty levels. Also, at low difficulty levels, you'll outstrip the AI by so much that you're likely to win before the AI finishes its prototype.

4. I can't tell what talents look like. I see Doctors, workers, empaths, thinkers, techies, and when I took one of the Peacekeeper cities some glowy looking figures IDK what they are supposed to be.

Other than some confusion this is an epic game.

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Talents should appear to the left of Workers. Specialists always appear to the right. The glowing specialists are Transcends (above Thinkers and Empaths).

Hightower said:

Aerospace Complex in the target base. You can't airdrop within a tile of a base with an Aerospace Complex.



No; this may be a problem in your installation.



I believe at any difficulty level, but they rarely make use of them except at very high difficulty levels. Also, at low difficulty levels, you'll outstrip the AI by so much that you're likely to win before the AI finishes its prototype.



Talents should appear to the left of Workers. Specialists always appear to the right. The glowing specialists are Transcends (above Thinkers and Empaths).

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Thanks. I got SMACX through GOG. Does their installer have a verify function? As for Talents, so they look like Doctors? And weren't Talents supposed to be Green?

Thanks for the quick response.

edingess said:

Thanks. I got SMACX through GOG. Does their installer have a verify function? As for Talents, so they look like Doctors? And weren't Talents supposed to be Green?

Thanks for the quick response.

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Not sure on the first question.

Talents and Doctors do not look the same. Talents should appear as in the below (one Talent, three Workers):

edingess said:

New player here and I have a couple questions:

2. Is the Singularity gun supposed to be silent

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This is a known problem in all versions of SMAX (not just GOG) and systems with certain sound cards. The Missile Launcher sound also may be affected. This link contains a patch that corrects the problem. I tested the fix and it worked for me.