Talk:Alien Base Assault

There is a limit to the number of bases that will be built: usually 2 per zone: one for an alien base mission and another for infiltration. The water zones won't have either, and some zones won't have infiltration missions. Once a particular mission in a zone is complete, that mission is deactivated for that zone. -Tycho (talk) 00:13, 16 May 2015 (EDT)

Remember that infiltration missions loop until all countries in that region are infiltrated, and that infiltration missions have been observed to spawn 2 bases some of the time for a single country infiltrated. So you can have more than 2 bases in a given zone. Magic9mushroom (talk) 01:36, 16 May 2015 (EDT)

True. It would be one base per zone for a base mission (outside of zones for Atlantic, Indian, etc.) and one per country for the infiltration missions. Where is the discussion that more than one base has appeared after a successful infiltration? Is this something that occurs in DOS? Because I can't see how more than one base can be created for either mission after seeing the code for "alien mission complete" routine in CE. Could it be if a base was already established and when one gets discovered so does the other? - Tycho (talk) 05:16, 16 May 2015 (EDT)

Possible, I guess, from what I recall of the circumstances. If you've done a code dig that's probably right. I think the North/South Atlantic and Indian Oceans are the only zones that can't get bases (because they don't get any incoming UFOs at all); every zone in ZONAL.DAT has a nonzero starting ACTS.DAT value for Alien Base. (Presumably, bases in the Pacific are in Hawaii or the shores of the Bering Strait, since that's the only land in the Pacific zone.) Magic9mushroom (talk) 06:10, 16 May 2015 (EDT)