Talk:Triscene

For some reason, Triscenes may be present in UNITREF.DAT but not seen in the tactical game. It may be a game bug, and one of reasons for which they are so rare in some campaigns. See File:Nstm.zip savegames for testing, explanation inside the archive.

Sherlock 20:27, 30 January 2013 (EST)

I would guess this is down to a shortage of spawn points.

Not all route nodes work as spawn points. Of those that do, many have restrictions placed on them so that they only accept certain types of units (eg, if a node is too close to a wall, or in an enclosed area, it might not be able to support large four-tile units).

The Triscenes are near the end of the unit list, so by the time the game gets around to spawning them, those places they could've gone have already been used up by their smaller alien brethren (nodes can't be flagged as "large units only"). With nowhere to go, they simply don't appear.

You can actually make a killing out of node shortages during base defence. If yours lacks enough nodes to place the alien forces after your own, then some (or all) of the aliens DON'T get placed, and so you've got a much easier battle on your hands. But - and this is a big "but" - that doesn't stop you from recovering all their weapons when you win!

-  Bomb Bloke (Talk/Contribs) 02:10, 31 January 2013 (EST)