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Real life PTAs!

Buy Universal Combat Collectors Edition. It will run.

Errr you can't send Resnig to the bridge. If you put him on station he goes to operations, not the bridge. How do you think intruders never kill him when they're on the bridge? Good to hear that your doing well in the game TBear.

Resnig once sent all my marines to operations when intruders were attacking him. Naturally they left before they got there and he went off duty. Intruders are evil though...I had some that were hanging out around shield control and kept knocking my shields down while I was fighting. Anyways, I highly recommend buying UCCE, and if your computer can run it upgrade it to 2.0. About getting near bases, try sending a team of marines to take out the air defences first. Then blow the launch pad up and either bring your CC down, or land a tank or two. Don't forget to send marines to escort your AFMs since the only anti marine weapon they have are shotguns. Dummies try and shoot their launchers at them sometimes. Usually I just beam down 4 MI marines with orders to escort the 4 AFMs. The AFMs are on SEAD or SAD orders. I usually stay down as well providing cover for any marines sneaking up on mine. After the air defences are taken care of, I take out the launch pad. Then I bring my CC down to take care of the rest of the base. If you go down yourself try using your DIE+being prone to detect enemies and destroy them before they find you.

The game seems to hate me in regards to cargo pods. They never drop anything good unless I have 5+ intruders onboard all sitting inside my shuttles. And by the time I clear them out the cargo pods already disappeared . Speaking of which if you don't already know it, shut off launch control when intruders are onboard.

Sometimes marines will refuse to take orders though...Then you have to give them a gesture before they'll take any again.

I've had my own marines shoot me with rocket launchers before....After that I learned my lesson that beaming 4 AFM marines directly into a base and running infront of their target is a bad bad idea.

Ah ok. I'll just enjoy my free cargo pods and XP from them trying to run from me rather than attempting to destroy my CC (and I bet the ONE time I don't pay attention some carrier is going to uncloak and cripple my poor CC.)

Before sending in a ticket, I figured I'd ask if this was normal. I've managed to make it all the way to LV-110 as TER/MIL and I haven't been attacked (by attack I mean the craft changing its orders to attack my CC) by anything larger than a fighter. The few patrolling/SAD carriers or cruisers I've seen that were hostile seemed to ignore me. Ground units seem pretty agressive towards me, I landed a tank on a planet and they sent a gunship after me (I guess you can figure out what happened here...) Also whenever say a GAM/MIL fighter appears in a system I'm in they immediately change their orders and attack me. Carriers and cruisers don't seem to exhibit this behavior. I'm running UCCE v2.0 and got it via upgrading to 1.01.04 and then upgrading to v2.0.

I was having the same issue going from 1.0-2.0 on the DVD-ROM edition as well. I fixed it by editing my pteobjects.ini so that it said site_mbase08 (it was happening with mbases 1-8) instead of base_mbase08. Apparently it renamed the file to this, but ever since I changed the pteobjects.ini file its worked fine. It might work by renaming the mbase files to base_mbase0x as well, but I never tried this.