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      I just noticed that while having the 'Fed alien mission (KILL the big bad ALIEN), when hailed, your cruiser escort has a type of a REBEL cruiser. Why is that? Have the 'feds gone mad or are they just trying to play a trick on me?

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      IIRC, it's just a mistake -- somebody (probably Matt Burch) accidentally put the word "Rebel" in a string where "Confed" belongs. I think there's a patch for it on the Addons page, look for something called a "STR# patch"

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      Nonononono...if you look under ResEdit isn't their resource name "Traitor Confed"? I'm pretty sure it was intended...

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      Coreył (Cubed)
      Uh, that word? You spelled it wrong. Yeah, that one right there, next to the period. And you're missing an apostrophe in the word "its".

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      Originally posted by coreycubed:
      Nonononono...if you look under ResEdit isn't their resource name "Traitor Confed"? I'm pretty sure it was intended...

      No, the Traitor Confed government is for a different mission, a Confederation mission where you have to destroy a frigate that's defecting to the Rebellion. It's just a bug that causes the alien mission escorts to sometimes be called "Confed Cruiser" on the Rebel mission and "Rebel Cruiser" on the Confederation mission. The governments that supply your escorts for the alien mission are Escort Confed and Escort Rebellion.

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      David Arthur
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      That's the last time I plunge headfirst into a topic without properly armed information... 😉

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      Coreył (Cubed)
      Uh, that word? You spelled it wrong. Yeah, that one right there, next to the period. And you're missing an apostrophe in the word "its".

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      Yeah, the Confed escorts say Rebel, and when doing the Rebel Alien missions, they say Confed. I think it was just a typo on a programmers part somewhere way back when.

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      I've also noticed that the Confed Cruiser escort fires on me when I attack the Alien Cruiser, and refuses to attack the Alien. This bug doesn't seem to affect the Rebel Cruisers. i usually just patch my way around that by switching the government of the Confed Cruiser Escorts to normal Confed, 128.

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      That never happened to me. The Cruiser(s) is/are usually too stuffed with the other ships to help me, but I usually use them to help kill some other ships.

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      Originally posted by coreycubed:
      **That's the last time I plunge headfirst into a topic without properly armed information...;)

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      That's what you said last time... and the time before that... and the time before that...

      😉

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      (This message has been edited by WickedDyno (edited 10-01-2001).)

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      Originally posted by Kalle Koskinen:
      **That never happened to me. The Cruiser(s) is/are usually too stuffed with the other ships to help me, but I usually use them to help kill some other ships.
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      It doesn't happen with the Rebels, but the Confed Cruiser never attacks anything, until I fire on an Alien, at which point it attacks me. It's not a corrupted Data File, because I've observed this on multiple copies that I've downloaded, also across multiple computer systems. It's weird. I've tried looking at the flags of the Escort Confederation government, and they all look fine...

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      Originally posted by Macavenger:
      **I've also noticed that the Confed Cruiser escort fires on me when I attack the Alien Cruiser, and refuses to attack the Alien. This bug doesn't seem to affect the Rebel Cruisers. i usually just patch my way around that by switching the government of the Confed Cruiser Escorts to normal Confed, 128.

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      I've noticed something similar to that on several occasions -- attacking certain xenophobic governments will make certain governments hate you (I haven't seen a pattern). Attacking aliens in EV and EV plug-ins with aliens pisses off independent systems like Levo. Blowing up gas clouds and asteroid storms in the Frozen Heart makes Rigellians unhappy. I'm not sure how this really works...

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      Mike Lee (Firebird)

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