Unselectable Factory

travtrav Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7417Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">game breaker</div> this has happened several times:

build factory, build turrets/buildings nearby select factory to upgrade and a random different building is selected. no upgrade button, clicking recycle recycles the factory and building factories nearby selects same object with same symptoms.

random objects selected i can remember have been a turret, a portal and an observatory.

another problem is roof clutter. in some rooms it obscures the commanders view and makes selection, waypointing and even building frustratingly difficult. some times i can't even place resourse collectors

and lastly now that the turret factories are so important to defend you should probably do something about their clipping planes as they are very hard to defend because most skulks can actually run "inside" the factory and be shielded from the turrets by its own armor. also it would be nice to be able to set the rotation that the factory is placed at. it seems to be a random rotation
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  • LPCLPC Join Date: 2002-04-07 Member: 384Members, Reinforced - Diamond
    I've had the same problem with turret factories. I rushed to the hive and placed one near it, with some sentry guns. I wanted to upgrade to advanced turret factory... but I couldn't... we eventually lost the game because I coulnd't get their hive down...

    btw, I tried to make new factories, but they all had the same problem... I couldn't upgrade them... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • R17R17 Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1911Members
    I had exactly the same problem, my team mates were shouting abuse telling me to get siege turrets up in south loop but whenever I tried to select the turret factory to upgrade, I selected a nearby armoury instead. Tried building another turret factory same thing happened. The previous commander before me had the same problem.
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  • AsranielAsraniel Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 724Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Retired Community Developer
    same problem here
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    its a bug.

    currently only solution I've found is to recycle factory and build another one elsewhere :/
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  • Guillaume777Guillaume777 Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8289Members
    edited November 2002
    The "can't upgrade" bug isn't limited to factory, all buldings are affected by it. This mean that you can't upgrade weapons, motion sensor, etc if the bug happens.

    Sometime, recycling the object that is selected instead of your turret factory fix the bug, but it seem unreliable.
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  • travtrav Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7417Members
    i've tried recycling and building another one, selected the same random building. haven't tried recycling the building tho...
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