Capturing Faction Leaders

[Begle1]

What is the deal with capturing faction leaders?

Is it a feature of the game cut out at a late stage of development? Or are you supposed to be able to actually do it somehow?

Years ago I nuked the Headquarters of a faction, and I saw a little message at the bottom of the screen saying "So-and-So Base Headquarters evacuated successfully".

I've heard other references to it before too.

Then today, something really weird happened.

I was playing the University against the Believers, and Miriam got a probe team into one of my bases, so of course she captured my base, and then the army I foolishly sent to liberate the base, and then another one of my bases, and then she went to capture my Headquarters base.

She couldn't capture my Headquarters base, so what happens?

I get a pop-up message, complete with picture, saying that I had successfully freed Aki-Zeta of the Conciousness, and that they were eternally in my debt!!! (Aki-Zeta was eliminated in this game over a hundred of turns ago.)

Weird, huh?

 

[Begle1]

Now I go to play the game again, and when I reload it, now Aki-Zeta is participating in the Planetary Council! She has no bases, but she's in the Council! Awesome!

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Now I go to play the game again, and when I reload it, now Aki-Zeta is participating in the Planetary Council! She has no bases, but she's in the Council! Awesome!

Can you contact Aki-Zeta via comlink? Maybe you can donate a few bases to her?

 

[Begle1]

I actually found that she popped up a size 5 base on a remote island out of nowhere.

She was eliminated, brought back when a probe team tried to capture my headquarters base, and then she sweared a pact to serve me and popped up a base out of nowhere.

I can't be the only one to have this happen?

 

[Acrux]

Very interesting! I always play with "don't restart eliminated players", but I might have to turn that off to see if I can get this to happen!

 

[Mandeville]

I would just like to say that I have had this event happen before as well. There are many unique events in SMAX.

 

[GooglyBoogly]

I would just like to say that I have had this event happen before as well. There are many unique events in SMAX.

While there are many events in SMACX, rescuing captured leaders isn't one of them. All you need to do is infiltrate the HQ of a faction that has captured another faction leader and you will be given the option to liberate the leader (it has a low chance of success though)

 

[Begle1]

That's cool; so it IS implemented in the game. I've played hundreds of times and never even noticed.

Gives me something else to do next time I play the game.

 

[Horizon]

In one of my recent games using the Hive, i had forced Peacekeepers and Gaians into submission so they served me instead of destroying them.

At some point Zakharov declared vendetta on me. Sadly for him, i just got the tech to build Planet Buster and managed earlier to win the vote to remove UN charter regarding atrocities (mostly thanks to my 2 servants and corrupting someone else).

I rushed a planet buster with all i had left and launched it on one of Zakharov base to cut him from gaining some territory in a part of the world none else had access.

Of course, University decided to hate me definitively after that.

But during the war, Lal managed to invade university last base and then captured Zakharov.

To test relationship in an unexpected way, i sent my best probe team to Lal capital and managed to rescue Zakharov, as expected instead of saying thanks he told me how much he hated me (always because of the planet buster) , and Zakharov colony pod spawned ... near Deidre territory and troopers.

She destroyed him the following turn and then eradicated the university

I found that funny as i imagined what Zakharov could have thought when noticing his liberator against any kind of logic was his worst enemy that was the best ally of his jailer