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Nic.
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Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« on: December 18, 2002, 10:22:26 pm »

In the game, when you rescue the Umgah from the talking pet, they say they'll give you 1000 units of bio data, however they only actually give you 500 units.  I looked, and the code says:

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GLOBAL_SIS (TotalBioMass) += 1000 / BIO_CREDIT_VALUE;

I'm going to assume that BIO_CREDIT_VALUE is set to 2 (I'm on win32 right now, so no cscope for me)

This looks like it's that way "on purpose"  Is it?
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Re: Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2002, 12:54:28 am »

Every biological data unit you gather is worth 2 credits to the melnorme.

This might explain it?
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Re: Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2002, 12:56:01 am »

Right, but they explicitly state that they're giving you 1000 UNITS of bio data, which should be worth 2000 credits.

It's probably just another Umgah joke.  Crazy blobbies..  Smiley
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Re: Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2002, 02:47:56 am »

I think it's a bug.
In the PC version they said "We hope five hundred units is sufficient" or something like that.

Anyway I it was five hundred units in the old version for sure.
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Re: Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2002, 05:14:29 am »

The Pages of Now and Forever would appear to agree with you, and the dialog .oggs don't have a line in them that mentions a specific quantity at all.

Should have checked there first.  Duh.  No matter, it's fixed on my box..  Smiley
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Re: Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2003, 02:51:33 pm »

I have a related question if someone is kind enough to answer it... *how* do you rescue the Umgah from the talking pet? I have the Taalo shield activated, but I need something else, don't I? Otherwise the pet endlessly orders the Umgah to attack me.
Thanks muchly!
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Re: Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2003, 03:04:59 pm »

if u read all the pet says when he orders 2 atack you is "commander gather your 10 ships..."
u only have to kill 10 umgah ships indeed very ard but if u try hard enoug u will prevail
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Re: Umgah:  Bug or feature?
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2003, 03:18:50 pm »

Ah ha, I was trying to be kind by not killing them all, at  least not in one go. I'll be off to make some Umgah-goo now then. Thanks again!
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