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Re: results of best way to create money to carry forward in C&C

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From: TCipollina
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:00
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cool, thanks

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rh...@spameater.inetworld.net wrote in article
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> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:24:46 PDT
> 
> TCipollina <joe...@stny.lrun.com> wrote:
> 
> > 3)build silo's, fill them up, then sell them
> 
> Let me give you a little history on this one, okay? Back in the good
> ole days.....
> 
> Sheesh, I can't even remember the version number sequence anymore, or
> else I'd gander  guess at when this was fixed. It was well before 
> rev 1.20 (CO). The way it worked when it was a bug was this: when you
> sold a silo, you got half the price of the silo back, you got cash
> for any tiberium in the silo at the time, PLUS - this is the bug -
> the tiberium in the silo got transferred to your other silos/tib
factories.
> This is how you could get almost endless money. Build about five silos,
> so that the one you keep selling can be pretty full and have all it's
> tib fit in the other silos, then sell the fifth. Build a new fifth
> silo, the tib gets spread evenly amongst the silos, sell it. Repeat.
> 
> You could tell who was doing this to you if they were too lame to 
> assasinate the tell-tale technicians running around their camp.
> 
> If you enjoy the tales of the ancient C&C bugs and cheats, you can
explore
> them yourself, I do believe, by running your version of c&c with the
> -o option. It reverts your game to rev 1.07, the original release,
> for "old game compatability". With this option you get infinite
> mini-gunners, tiberium cheats, and the ever popular and game imbalancing
> $250.00 gun turret for nod.
> -- 
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> |     Rhett Stroh                    "Fight, Win, Prevail!"    |
> |  rhett_AT_inetworld_DOT_net                                  |
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From: "TCipollina" <joe...@stny.lrun.com>
Subject: Re: results of best way to create money to carry forward in C&C
Date: 1999/01/24
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