Screenshot of the Day #104: Invisible Sub

Thunderfall · Feb 15, 2003

I'm not sure if this is a bug with the Mac version of Civ3, or just a screen refresh issue, but everytime my nuclear subs have fired their tactical nuke, they develop a cloaking device

It's just a shame that the effect doesn't last into the next turn!

http://www.civfanatics.com/sotd/sotd104.jpg

Thanks to Frunobulax for the screenshot.

farting bob · Feb 15, 2003

lol!
i bet the AI still saw it!
its a conspiricy to hide all your units so you dont know where they are!

CivCube · Feb 15, 2003

Hmm...do you suppose that the AI bribes the computer??? :eek:

OmegaMega · Feb 15, 2003

I think that the nuke luanch pushed the sub too far below the water.

Seanirl · Feb 15, 2003

weird.... maybe it's a magic sub? of black magic

Tassadar · Feb 15, 2003

Originally posted by OmegaMega
I think that the nuke luanch pushed the sub too far below the water.

Ya the crew forgot to empty ballast

SewerStarFish · Feb 15, 2003

If I fired a nuclear missile,I'd dive my sub too

DiamondzAndGunz · Feb 15, 2003

Don't think of it as a bug in the Mac version; Think of it as a feature!

Originally posted by SewerStarFish
If I fired a nuclear missile,I'd dive my sub too

Exactly what I was thinking.

Silverflame · Feb 15, 2003

Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
Don't think of it as a bug in the Mac version; Think of it as a feature!

Yeah, their subs are actually submerged in the mac version for one turn! :lol:

Lt. 'Killer' M. · Feb 15, 2003

this reminds me of the pic in OT on 'American Stealth Fighters' - where you see the pilot and ladder, but not the plane he climbs into.

screen refresh problem I guess, I see similar things if I nuke cities and the next active unit doesn't require a 'move' of the screen - and that is PC version.

Strider · Feb 15, 2003

Wow..... Wouldn't you love to have that?

Edit: 2000th post!!!

GenMarshall · Feb 15, 2003

Now that is a strange SOTD, I have never seen that happened before.

Michael York · Feb 16, 2003

Well, it can't be that the missle launch pushed the sub under.

A ballistic missle sub lets a missle containing pod go that is less dense than water. This increases the density of the sub. We know from our fluid statics the manometer equation p=ghro. knowing that the change in mass is negliable whilr the volume remains constant, our ro is virtually un changed as is our downward force, f=mg, so remembering that the surface area of the sub is unchanged, area=area. so: f=parea, ghro/area=mg-> ro/(m area)=h. since mass (m) and the area are constant, and knowing that the derivative of the density (dro/dt) is 0, the depth change is negliable. :crazyeye:

I think it was the ai intimdating the sub.

(sorry, i've done 1 too many fluid mechanics problems)

hbdragon88 · Feb 16, 2003

Cool!

Submerging the sub...those seen spots do freak me out though. They look weird.

PCHighway · Feb 16, 2003

Sounds like a graphic mess up to me, maybe in the attack or fidget animation? Dunno, strange to be sure

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Dragon67 · Feb 16, 2003

This is nothing new at all. I discovered that bug already in f.1.16 patch. It was really annoying, since I got trouble to find my subs. I thought that was patched, since I have not discovered it later. Anyway, that problem was not related to the Mac version.

Dragon67 · Feb 16, 2003

Originally posted by PCHighway
Sounds like a graphic mess up to me, maybe in the attack or fidget animation? Dunno, strange to be sure.

Nope, it was not a graphic problem. It was also other problems related to that. When you launched a nuke, you also nuked your own sub, even if it was out of the nuke range. So the only way too handle it, was to make sure that it was a great distance between the target area and your sub

Mercade · Feb 16, 2003

Originally posted by hbdragon88
Cool!

Submerging the sub...those seen spots do freak me out though. They look weird.

Yeah, what's with the four lighter circles? If you have a sub there, shouldn't you be able to see more of your surroundings?

Praetorian · Feb 16, 2003

The d$%$m cook forgot to turn off the cloaking device!!!

p.s. Promote Lt. Killer to Capt. Killer!!

philippe · Feb 16, 2003

hmmmmaybe that sub dived for not being detected..

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