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Question About Advent Starbase

December 17, 2008 9:26:51 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Okay so when you first build the starbase the only weapons that it seems to have are plasma cannons, then you buy the weapons upgrade and nothing happens, then you buy the last upgrade and get this awesome psionic weapon, but the tooltip says you have three weapon types from the begginning.

my question is HOW DO THE WEAPON UPGRADES/WEAPONS WORK??

(also is the second upgrade a glitch b/c i don't see any lasers and if the weapons are added after the upgrade then the lasers aren't working)

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Reply #1 December 17, 2008 9:32:38 PM
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Your base only starts with one weapon. Each upgrade adds a new one to your lineup. The tooltips are misleading.

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Reply #2 December 17, 2008 9:39:17 PM
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thank you, then does that mean the second upgrade for advent base doesn't work

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Reply #3 December 17, 2008 11:11:23 PM
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more likely it works but the graphic is broken

it looks fine in the file

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Reply #4 December 17, 2008 11:59:45 PM
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The second upgrade (a set of laser batteries) do function.  However, they have two issues, disegarding possible balance problems.  The first is that they're tiny and hard to notice (they're a number of round nubs on the bottom pylon with a glowing light in the center.)  The second is, at least in as far as I can tell, that the weapon upgrades load the graphics in reverse order, that is to say, when you build the laser batteries you get the graphics for the Psintigret Blasters, and vice versa.

 

Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure how to post pictures of this visual bug.

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Reply #5 December 18, 2008 12:04:07 AM
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Quoting M Shadowy,
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Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure how to post pictures of this visual bug.

If you can get a picture of it firing psintigret blasters with the upgrades tab open and showing that you've only upgraded the laser batteries, that would do nicely. Or do you mean posting the actual screenshot?

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Reply #6 December 18, 2008 12:09:24 AM
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Quoting thegrinner,
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If you can get a picture of it firing psintigret blasters with the upgrades tab open and showing that you've only upgraded the laser batteries, that would do nicely. Or do you mean posting the actual screenshot?

 

Well, first - I can't find the damn screenshot I took.  Secondly, it's just a visual bug.  The Psintegret Blasters don't fire, even though the weapon ports show up; the lasers... well, my memory fails me.  I believe they do, despite missing their ports.  I'll check again.

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Reply #7 December 18, 2008 12:25:54 AM
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Yeah, I noticed this too. All I can say to it lol though.

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Reply #8 December 18, 2008 1:11:32 AM
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Can someone send a screenshot of this? I am not aware of the problem here. Thanks!

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Reply #9 December 18, 2008 3:09:41 AM
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Alright.

 

Sorry bout the whitespace; I had to use a work around to get a screen shot and I'm not entirely up to par with the GiMP.

 

In any case, as you can see, the laser batteries aren't active, despite the first upgrade being active.  Worse, my earlier assumption that they were nevertheless firing was indeed a case of faulty memory.  The Psintegret aren't firing, despite the weapon ports existing on the model; if they were I would have tried to get a screen capture of it.

 

Hopefully this is of some use;  would you like a save file as well?

 

Not quite firing on all cylinders...

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Reply #10 December 18, 2008 6:00:32 AM
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I've figured out the problem.

The ports in blue are added on the first upgrade. They fire the Psionic Surge, but the Psionic Surge isn't enabled yet.  Lasers are enabled, but they don't have ports to fire from - they require the ports in purple, which are only enabled on the second ugprade.

So you need both weapon upgrades for any weapon upgrades on the Advent SB to work.

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Reply #11 December 18, 2008 9:35:07 AM
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My advent Starbase fires only the plasma Weapon until all 8 Upgrades are done. The Psionic surge and the laser batteries work then.

But if I just do the two weapon upgrades the Starbase does not use the weapons.

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Reply #12 December 18, 2008 12:09:57 PM
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what happens to me is that the lasers don't work at all no matter how much i upgrade it also on the second upgrade for weapons is when psionic surge starts working for me not the first one

 

EDIT: okay i figured out what i think the problem is i just cant see the lasers but i can here them so nvm this entire post

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