Reunion [Archive] - Page 2

Malogalotalotim

03-09-2007, 04:27 PM

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(madmax @ Aug 21 2007, 02:06 PM) 305856</div>
Man i love this game.

I just downloaded it a few days ago, and i just completet it after 2 days constant play :)

I must say it was hard, because i never got the aircrafts... so i had to build 400+ battletanks, to be able to defeat the league. But after that, it was easy defeating the Earthlings with 80 missile tanks.

Really fun game... deserves a followup ;)
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Hi there...

The very first time i finish the game like you i was needed to produce 300+ tanks. But here is idea - when u find 4th system go there, meet Erans and colonize one of the planets there. Produce only observatory and generator - nothing more. Few days later you will receive that the system will go to super nova. Now go with cargo ships or battle fleet and meet erans. They will ask to save them with your ships. After that remove fleet from the system and go to the bar. Ask the customers about the erans... After you meet the League go to the pub and talk with the eran again. Ask him to make some trouble or civil war or something in the League with the Undorlings. After his mission is completed you will make alliance with Undorlings and they will give you Aircraft. Now you wont need tons of Battle Tanks to defeat the League :P

Enjoy.

Guest

03-09-2007, 04:31 PM

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Poky @ Jun 20 2007, 11:38 PM) 295390</div>
Hy I need some help over here..

How to find fourth system?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("stranger")does anyone know where to find the aircraft????ive scouted almost all of the planets but no aircraft technology came out[/b]

I know I need to...
Save Erans and make ally with Underlings - they share Aircfart Tehnology but they ARE IN FOURTH SISTEM, a sistem I haven t discoverd yet![u] In these (familiar to me) three sistems only 1 planet of aliens remains, (ground forces) but I can t defeat them without an aircraft.. They have 2o aircrafts and allways kill my tanks with those aircrafts) What can I do?

Who can Help me to move on?
How to discover a fourth sistem?
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Hi there...

The only way to defeat those aircraft is to send more and more tanks. No other choice. Try against 10 aircraft to send 2x30 Battle tanks to fight. If you send them at equal time i think you will kill the aircraft.

l0is

06-09-2007, 11:04 PM

Hi.
I started playing Reunion once more.
This time I ended it in about 3 hours :ok:
Here is my research screen:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3817/reunionqe0.jpg

If you have any questions, ask me:)

Cheers

Kaspiro

25-09-2007, 02:30 PM

Hello

I found Reunion on this site after a very very long time (last time I played was over 10 years ago on my Amiga ^_^ ) while looking for some other old Amiga game.

This game is great. I can still remember loosing all my Summer break to it, but I've finally won :brain: Back then did it with no help on save-load mode haha

Looking froward to play it again :) to bad I've forgotten so much, ore great I did. now i can discover the world of Reunion from the beginning.

All the best to all Reunion freaks and fight on :titan:

Guest

04-10-2007, 12:45 PM

Is a good game.
But I have a problem... after destroing the league no appear 7th system... Why?? I need something??

narkooegle

14-10-2007, 05:00 PM

Actually someone put the intro on youtube (in many parts that is):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MbdDIsYgfkM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P8MF30FhJEU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zOiRAXwfN6g
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f-yCMiJ-wxY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CBPMMOiQJEc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KPJsO8D9STo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-cnrnxtmJ8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fPLjuaYIRzE

The intro is simply on of the best thing with this game!

Leo

15-10-2007, 02:29 PM

i posted ages ago and i thought the forum was dead but i book marked it and i find it is still going i made the post about the tank position when in ground battle, i just love this game, i been searching for a game like it but so far i have found nothing, reunion really captivated us all, it's just a pity it was abandoned, if only the put more work into making a second one, or even multilayer functions.

well, it's great to see others who love reunion,

Leo.

Zoltasz

17-10-2007, 08:32 AM

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Elerium @ Jul 17 2007, 04:03 PM) 299889</div>
Ah thanks ;) It's a good game, but it feels a bit too complex, although the first thing that came to mind was 'gee, does this remind me of Imperium Galactica? Could it be Imperium Galactica 0? :P'.
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Yes, in an aspect you may call it Imperium Galactica 0. Reunion was made by a Hungarian developer team, Digital Reality (www.digitalreality.hu - you can choose English or Hungarian language on their page), their next project was Imperium Galactica (released in 1997). And in 2000 they released Imperium Galactica II - Alliances, a game is considered one of the best games ever made (it is one of the few games I have bought, and the only one, which I bought shortly after the release - never regretted. After IG2 they made Haegemonia, but I haven't tried it yet. Their other projects are not space strategies.

Tie

31-10-2007, 02:04 AM

Hi all

wow, i played this game like 15 years ago but got frustrated because of all the crashes (I feared a bit for my shiny 486 SX-33 :kosta:

Now I tried to play it again but it is so damn hard!

You 'guy playing it in 3 hours'?! :ok: Are you kiddin'?

My main problems are all the bugs, :wallbash: but later to that.

First, after several tries I thought about the following starting strategy:

Increase tax to 'oppressing' or 'very difficult' as fast as possible. After 2 seconds or so the next day comes and you get a bit more tax that way. Get 2nd builder and upgrade her for about 20k (later it will get more expensive).
Build 3 additional derricks and maybe one mine (you have one mining droid in stock).
You can keep the tax for one or two days on 'oppressing' but then your people become 'neutral'. Now leave the tax on 'very difficult'.
Just fast forward in time and get 250k money while your mines and derricks produce. By achieving this money your population should be around 35k. New Earth supports 38k people without additional buildings I think (just check the other post in this forum).
Employ Klatoo (3rd scientist), this saves 15k for the middle scientist plus one upgrade for the colony-research (worth about another 35k).
After this research and exploration with satellites (first pilot should be sufficient).
You might feel being behind but I think that it shouldn't be a problem.
You can get very soon new colonies (mine on Penelope and a mine on, hm, I forgot, well, the grey-brown planet has a good moon with energon, after that a colony on Mir and probably on Apollo and after that on one of Jade's moons) and there should be sufficient time to get all the research done, contact with the aliens on Jade and an economy running before the Morgruls attack.

So much for the theory.
Unfortunately I cannot try this out as a bug always prevents me from shifiting resources into the transfer ship.
I recognized however, that there is red painting in the left frame of the cockpit-screen (when you fly your spacecraft). Maybe the bug occurs because I take the 3rd scientist first?

Does anyone know anything about the bugs and how to avoid them?

This game rocks so much (and it indeed got personal for me! :titan: ) that I really want to play it...

By the way: I'm using dosbox on my old Win89SE notebook ^_^

Thanks for any ideas or comments

Guest

31-10-2007, 02:29 AM

Well, :whistling:
it could only be like 13 years ago...

^_^

Tie

31-10-2007, 08:01 PM

Okay!

I tried out something different:
I chose the female player in the beginning and - probably more important - did not land with the transfer ship on the planet while building up the mining station.

Now it worked out, without any sign of bugs.

I have now two mining stations (on Penelope and on one of the Klatoo moons, Katanga?? :huh: , well the one with Energon), two colonies (Mir and Apollo --> cheap wind energie) ready with medical plant and housing for 17k, New Earth is build up for about 55k people but without stadium and I just got the unknown device for 16k from the aliens on Jade. No sign of the Morgruls yet.
Thus the above strategy seems to work out quite well.

Look good, eh? ^_^

morgul

02-11-2007, 11:26 AM

I've encountered a NICE bug. While in 'buying' screen I bought some aircraft, than bought 1 space station (to enable simultaneous production of 2 big ships), then clicked back on aircraft, then speed up with right mouse button on the clock, and when the space station is finished the aircraft queue boost from 3pcs. to some 1200 pcs. :max: .... later, when misile tanks became available the taks queue also was automagically filled without spending a single 'star-buck' or 'credit' or whatever currency they have.

OK - yet one spoiler or tip:

when fighting with Morguls - do not hurry with rescueing a ship in 2nd. starsystem (s.o.s. signal...) I have done it just before my invading forces was ready (20 starfighters 20 hunters 1 destroyer 30 tanks). First rescue that ship in 2nd starsystem, then fly to mirach 3, wait for Kalls fleet to arrive, and begin assault. The Kalls will help in da fight. And later on they won't attack Phelonians. :w00t:

Ireng

02-11-2007, 08:46 PM

Question!
I have my fleet orbiting Mirach 3 to smash the Morguls, but when I click the fleet icon (the circle with a red arrow) no "Ground attack" button appears! I've double checked that my fleet is on the planet's orbit, not grounded or in one of the moons.
Could this be a bug?

ReunionLover

12-11-2007, 02:21 PM

Some useful tips on problems you'll run into in the game;

Hiring Personel;

Hire the middle advisors at the start of the game. The best ones are to expensive, but the least skilled ones really suck and won't help you much. Replace the scientist first when you got the money, because you'll be needing to research some stuff the middle guy just can't handle. And then after that the fighter for a bit of a combat boost. You won't need to upgrade the other two until after you defeat the Morgruls really.

Resources;

You will need to build colonies to mine Raenium and Texon as they are not present on your home planet. You will also need to make sure you are mining Energon on other planets, and you want to make sure you have lots of those oil derricks to pump up Detoxin. Because you can run into a shortage of both minerals if you do not do so. And you do not want that. You also will need to have a good stock of Energon in order to get battletanks.

Also, make sure to run high taxes at your homeworld. They'll hate you but as long as you build the stuff your citizens want or need, they won't revolt. And you'll have more cash, which you'll certainly need.

Getting the Tanks;

The Phoenix system contains two races, the Kalls, whom you get the starfighters from, and the Phelonians. You can find the Phelonians by either building a colony with an observatory at Phoenix, or a cheaper alternative. Talk to the informant at the bar. Who will tell you about them for a fee. The Phelonians will tell you they need energon. And they are willing to pay you for it. Ask them for weaponry and you get the battletank design.

Making sure the Kalls don't ally with the Morgruls;

The Kalls will do whatever suits them best, so if they decide you are losing to the Morgruls they'll ally with them! This however can be prevented. Make sure you have landed on Jade (I think, if not on Mirach 2's second moon. Where you should also land anyway) and you'll get the technology for a hyperwave receiver. You'll pick up a Morgrul distress signal at one point. Retrieve the Morgruls and tell them the Kalls will attack them, then let them go. The Morgruls will no longer trust the Kalls. And they will not form an alliance, kill the Phelonians and then turn on you.

Mind you if you fail at this, its not a huge deal. The Kalls are a joke and you don't need to defeat them, just kill the Morgruls anyway. This DOES however buy you more time to build up a fleet and tanks. (Make sure to build lots of hunters. (But don't skimp on fighters and a few destroyers either. Don't bother building troopers for your groundforces, they suck.)

Getting the Aircraft;

After defeating the Morgruls, you'll discover new systems. First go to Antares, where you'll run into the Erans. Contrary to what some people will tell you at the bar, these guys are not dangerous. In fact you'll want to make friends with them. Build a colony in their system with an observatory and you'll discover their star is about to go nova! Go pick up your colonists and the Erans will talk to you. Help them out and they'll be eternally grateful for saving their species. An Eran will then appear at the bar.

In the other systems (Make sure you've build up your fleet before entering them!) you'll discover the League, a group of four alien races who don't like how fast you are developing. And declare war on you. Scope out their planets with spy sattelites and you'll learn that the two most powerful leaguemembers don't get along. You can use the Eran to get one of these races on your side. If you choose the Lisonians, they'll sent a fleet over to your system to help protect your homeworld. But if you choose the Undorlings, and those are the guys you really want. You'll get new technology! Including the coveted aircraft.

Now I have one question though... Whats that bounty hunter you get after you defeat the league good for? Is there a way to use him to kill of that rogue Syonian controlling Earth so you don't have to attack the Earth fleets?

Reunion Lover

14-11-2007, 02:46 PM

Here, have a guide to getting ALL the tech in the game. I'm not 100% sure if I'm right on the Spy Satellite and the Spy Ship, but those you'll get anyway during the course of the game. The rest, I'm completely sure on;

Nuclear Generator

Start with it.

Mining Droid
Satellite

You can research it from the start.

Satellite Carrier

Launch a satellite at any world other then your moon.

Miner Station
Transfer Ship

Discover minerals on an alien world.

Control Center

Build a mine on a habitable world.

Communicator

Meet the Jaanosians at Jade.

Trade Ship

Agree to send your scientist to the Jaanosians.

Hunter
Laser Cannon

Agree to help the Jaanosians out against their enemies.

Radio (Easy to miss! Useful.)

Find on the Jade after the Jaanosians are destroyed.

Twin Laser Gun

Automatically invented after the first Morgrul attack on your planet.

Hyperspace Drive

Buy from the Jaanosians.

Galleon

Automatically invented after the first Morgrul attack on your planet.

Starfighter

Get from the Kalls.

Trooper

Automatically invented after the first Morgrul attack on your planet.

Tractor Beam

Invented after the first Morgrul invasion is defeated.

Pirate Ship

Capture the Morgrul ship at Phoenix 1. (You also get this by defeating the Morgruls.)

Spy Satellite

Invented during the war with the Morgruls, to allow you to get information on alien colonies.

Battle Tank (IMPORTANT!)

Buy from the Phelonians for Energon. (Find out about their planet from the informant at the bar, after discovering the Phoenix system.)

Missile
Destroyer (IMPORTANT!)

Wreck on Mirach 2, Moon 2.

Space Station

Invented as it is needed to build a destroyer.

Spy Ship

Either invented during the last part of the Morgrul war, or after defeating them.

Aircraft (IMPORTANT, easy to miss!)

Get from the Undorlings by using the Erans to ally them with you.

Solar Plant

Invented automatically sometimes after the Morgruls are defeated.

Meteor Disintegrator

Develop a colony in Orionis or Lyrae, a building will get hit by meteors and be destroyed.

Ion Cannon

Get from the Undorlings by using the Erans to ally them with you.

Anti Radiation Shield (Fairly easy to miss.)

Build a colony at Phoenix, it will get irradiated.

Plasma Gun
Missile Launcher

Find the wreck on Rigel 1.

Cruiser

Get after defeating the League.

Mental Radar

Developed after discovering the wreck on Rigel 1.

Energy Shield

Get from the Syonians.

Reunionlover

14-11-2007, 02:57 PM

Finally, prime colony locations are Mir (Moon of Amnesty 2) and Penelope (Moon of Zeus) both in the Amnesty system.

Mir is very rich in Energon, and you will have shortages of that. Penelope is rich in Raenium and Texon, which you do not have on your homeworld. Mir is also a desert planet, and allows you to build the cheap sandtrap powerplants, making it the most affordable of the two colonies, and thus the one you should snag earliest. It has Raenium as well, and you won't need to much Texon, so a mining station on Penelope will suffice for a while first. (But DO build and develop a colony there later on as well when you can afford it!)

Other colonies are not really that neccesary actually.

Also your homeworld is rich in Detoxin (which you may also have a shortage off!) so put lots and lots of derricks there. (other colonies generally produce Detoxin only half as fast so aren't really worth the bother I'd personally say.)

Alien Homeworld Locations are;

Amnesty - Jade (Jaanosians)
Phoenix - Phoenix 3 and 5 (Kalls and Phelonians)
Mirach - Mirach 3 (Morgruls, Kill 'em!)
Antares - Antares 3 (Erans, DON'T Kill 'em!)
Orionis - Orionis 3 (Druedians, Kill them too!)
Lyrae - Lyrae 3, 5 and 7 (Undorlings (get them on your side!), Hirachi (Kill 'em!) and Lisonians (Don't get these on your side, just kill 'em.)
Rigel - Rigel 2 (Syonians, hidden, explore Rigel 1 first.)
Sun - Earth (Hunams, I guess you should kill 'em but I still wonder what that bountyhunter's for.)

Never bother attacking an alien colony. It does you no good and just costs you valuable ships and troops. Always attack only the homeworld. That takes them out!

For your starfleet make a mix of ships, lots of hunters and fighters. And a few of the big ships for good measure. For your ground forces, only bother with the most powerful troops you can get. (Never buy troopers, replace tanks with aircrafts when you have them, and aircrafts with missile launchers when you get those. Tanks don't do you any good once aircrafts come into play, and the same goes for aircraft when there's missile launchers available.)

However, should you fail to get the Undorlings on your side. (Don't forget to talk to the bartender about the league after you first encounter them! If you don't do that, I've noticed you can't get them on your side!) you CAN destroy aircraft with tanks by positioning them so that the aircraft end up being fired on by two or three tanks. (Which destroys a few of them, even though the tanks take heavy losses.)

Guest

14-11-2007, 10:14 PM

When I played this game some 12 years ago, I remember a purple earthling called 'Treasonable' sitting on the steps in the bar. You could pay him/her(?) some cash to raise a rebellion on earth, and I believe that the bounty hunter could be hired to kill the leader of the Earthlings.......

Reunionlover

15-11-2007, 02:11 PM

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Nov 15 2007, 12:14 AM) 319230</div>
When I played this game some 12 years ago, I remember a purple earthling called 'Treasonable' sitting on the steps in the bar. You could pay him/her(?) some cash to raise a rebellion on earth, and I believe that the bounty hunter could be hired to kill the leader of the Earthlings.......
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Replayed a savegame and found him! Indeed he is there at the very end of the bar. Yet though you can pay him and hire the bountyhunter to kill MRX, this didn't seem to do anything! I still had to fight the Earthlings... Cool though! Maybe I should try this a few different ways... Such as trying it after the first Earth-fleet attacks...

Thanks either way!

Guest

17-11-2007, 01:08 PM

Some additional info! You get the spy satellite and spy ship automatically, after you discover Mirach 3 (Done by getting the spy that shows up in your bar after the second big Morgrul attack on your side.)

Also, it might be better to rescue the Morgrul ship at Phoenix 1 later rather then sooner. I rescued them early in the game, and the Kalls still allied with them. So maybe its best to make sure you discover Phoenix 1, but not to go there until the Kalls are about to attack the Phelonians? (I think at that time a Kall fleet shows up at Phoenix 5.)

Maybe there's a timing issue like that with the bountyhunter and treasonable too... Because so far I can make the bountyhunter kill the renegade Syonian, but it doesn't do any good...

Reunionlover

17-11-2007, 09:56 PM

Also.... final bits of interest about the game;

To make sure the Kall's are on your side, don't rescue the Morgruls at Phoenix 1 till the Kall fleet first shows up at Phoenix 5. That means they are attacking the Phelonians. Rescue the Morgruls at Phoenix one THEN, and the Kall fleet will instead go to Mirach 3, and aid you both in the spacewar and groundwar, leaving the Phelonians alone and allowing you to win with less ships and tanks. (Which is good, means you need to spent less time and resources, both of which are precious.) It does make things alot easier at that stage of the game.

Second, guide to the people at the bar, those are important too!

Bartender

How to get: He's there at the start.

What he can do for you: He can tell you about people at the bar, such as the spy or the morgrul pirate captain. He also tells you that you are not alone in your own solarsystem. Most importantly though, you need to talk to him after you first encounter the league. He will tell you to split them up. Which he needs to have told you for you to be able to get the Undorlings on your side. (You should do this straight after meeting the League.)

Spy Hunter

How to get: He's there at the start.

What he can do for you: Kill the spy, but you do not want him to do this. Actually this guy really isn't any use.

Informant

How to get: He's there at the start.

What he can do for you: He sells you interesting information. Particularly important when you find the Phoenix system as he will tell you where to find the Phelonians. (However you can also do this by flying back and forth into the Phoenix system. (Your ships might detect the planet.) or by building a colony and observatory at Phoenix 2 (but this is expensive and elaborate due to the planet being irradiated, and you having to invent the anti-radiation shield, which takes an 8 in physics to invent etc.) Not all of the info he gives is useful though. He's wrong about the Erans.

Spy

How to get: He pops up after the Morgruls second wave of attack, talk to the bartender about him, then offer him at least 30000 credits to join you.

What he can do for you: He can figure out stuff about your enemies. He'll also tell you the location of the Mirach system when you hire him. You will need that information to defeat the Morgruls! So don't let your spy hunter kill the little guy.

Morgrul

How to get: Defeat the Morgruls

What he can do for you: Sometimes you pick up messages about ores or weapons being transported. He can attack these for you. He seems to benefit from having many well armed pirate ships in your fleet. These ores and weapons can be a nice little boost to your forces. He will always accept half the cargo as his prize (if you got a fair amount of ores and not so much money this can be good for the ore raids.) And also often will accept the middle prize for hiring him. (good for raiding for weapons, so you'll get more of these.) Sometimes he'll want more cash though!

Eran

How to get: Build a colony at Antares 3 with an observatory. You'll discover the sun is going nova. When you sent your trade group to rescue the colonies, the Erans will talk to you. Offer to help them and he'll be at your bar.

What he can do for you: He can get the Undorlings or Lisonians on your side once you encounter the league. Get the Undorlings as they give you technology. Nearly vital!

Undorling

How to get: Get the Undorlings on your side with the Erans help

What he can do for you: Tell you about the three other League races that you are fighting. Not that useful. Just you get him anyway when you make the Undorlings join you, and you want to do that. So like... enjoy him.

Bounty Hunter

How to get: He shows up after you find out about Earth

What he can do for you: Kill the telepath controlling earth, however this does not seem to be doing any good, weirdly.

Treasonable

How to get: Shows up at the back of the bar (Easy to miss!) once the Earth declares war on you.

What he can do for you: Give him money and he'll tell you about the telepath controlling Earth, so you can sic the bountyhunter on him. Doesn't seem to do much though.

Reunionlover

17-11-2007, 10:01 PM

And a final tidbit... the solar satellite is quite useful!

One of them will produce energy for an entire colony, seriously reducing the costs of having them as you no longer need to build powergenerators.

You get them a bit late in the game though. And you don't really need colonies beyond Mir and Penelope. (And the brief one on Antares 3 of course. And one of Phoenix 2 if you want to invent the Radiationshield, but I digress)

You do however end up with colonies on Mirach 3, Orionis 3, Lyrae 5 and Lyrae 7 as you conquer these worlds, so if you want to keep those. (If nothing else for extra tax incom.) Give them a solar satellite!

psycrow

28-01-2008, 07:20 PM

I downloadet this dosbox and im not a programmer or haxxor type..so how do use this dosbox ?

and is there some game codes in this game ?

psycrow

28-01-2008, 07:44 PM

I have no sound and as soon i press the mouse the dosbox crashes..

I got the game mount in doxbos..finaly and then no sound :(
I run win xp...amazing a littel game cant run on greater computers

The Fifth Horseman

28-01-2008, 08:44 PM

im not a programmer or haxxor type.
A literate type is more than enough, believe me.
so how do use this dosbox ?
We have a sticky in the Troubleshooting forum entitled "A Beginner's Guide to DOSBox". Begin by reading it, and feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

psycrow

28-01-2008, 09:06 PM

ok thx alot..i finaly worked my way to get this game working...but after i had played 1 hour and mine som planets and send few satelites the game froze up on me :s

I hope i were unlucky...i better save the game often also..I can remind that the game also froze up on my amiga sometimes..gues nobody is perfect :(

psycrow

07-02-2008, 06:54 PM

Ok that does it,,when i finaly try to win the honest way...then i get powned by massive red dots..so many the screen was all red...now its my turn to pown with a trainer...how do i aply the trainer ?

I have downloadet some exe file and there are some files with this game also..i just dont know how to aply em...i run the rav-trn file and aply the patch file also..and run my trainer i found but still the same normal game...:mad:

All the files are in same libry with the game

ovis

31-08-2008, 05:58 AM

You know I first played this game in my cousins computer. I got a serius flash with this game. well he had a cracked version with unlimited resources and money. Does anyone know how to get that?(I mean unlimited resources and money). I know that you miss all the fun. But I have finished the game about what 7 times. I can't get bored with it. But I hate that back and forth for resources. Any ideas?

The Fifth Horseman

31-08-2008, 10:21 AM

Perhaps hex editing the save would work?

ovis

31-08-2008, 02:35 PM

can you be a little more specific? I am not sure I understand. Details please. Not everybody is a computer wiz.

dosraider

31-08-2008, 02:46 PM

http://www.the-spoiler.com/ has the hex editing instructions for Reunion.

As for explaining how to do that ...... I'm not very eager to do so, if you have no idea what a hex editor is, don't think it's a good idea, those things can be harmfull.

gabiru

16-01-2009, 08:08 PM

Perhaps the only real drawback to this game is the fact that you have to send trade ships to uncharted planets (like when you lose the satellites in Jade, you have to send a trade ship there to contact the aliens and progress the research. It is the same thing in the second system) Which in my opinion is a total lack of strategy because the trade ship doesn´t have any other clear function apart from transporting gear and ore to and fro known planets.
Also the control room scene is very still and has a few redundant controls.
Apart from that it is quite a good game where you actually get to travel inside the space ships and build stuff on the surface of the planets instead of just playing everything on a sytem radar screen.:thumbs:

uffda

21-01-2009, 10:18 PM

-Battle tank problems.

Ok, so I tried umpteen restarts, wating til 2829-12-etc, doing and researching various stuff inbetween fighting off the Morgruls +++

BUT, the Phelonians NEVER talk to me ??
(no pleas for the 10000 Energons, nothing...)

And the Informer in the bar also never speaks about that 5th Phoenix planet, so only way to find it has been to build colony+observatory on 2nd planet.

I arrive with satelite transport first, then the Galleon later, which trigger the Kalls to contact me. But after several variants of action/non-action, nix Phelonians (even deployed spy ship, landing with Galleon, etc etc)

- SO, please, could someone tell me what exact order of events trigger them to TALK to me (not to mention actually giving me the battle tank plans...)
???

Me seriously starting to lose patience here.... :notrust:

(I've read this whole thread, and google EVERYTHING, but still nothing...)
Tried with the original CD, and the abandonia version...

....help ?

uffda

24-01-2009, 04:07 PM

Ayone have any comments whatsoever ?

Pretty please ?

Of those of you that have completed the game, or just half way - could you tell me WHEN you are contacted by the Phelonians ?
(and what you have researched by then)

Is it immediately after you find their planet and approach it, or land on it with a Galleon ? Later ? Much later ? How many Mogruls waves has passed by ?

*

Oh, and the informant in the bar, what does it take to make him tell you about their planet ?

Pastulasaf

25-01-2009, 06:24 PM

To People having problems with the Version at abandonia, note that the cracked start.exe which is included is bugged, and it will crash the game.

I have tried this version on both an older dos machine, as well as through DosBox, and the exact same crash occurs. Then i finally got the orginal from another site, and then simply used the codes, which was downloadable separately from the manual.

If you experience this crash, try getting the original exe. Cracked exes often make the game crash, as in this case. I would prefer the orginal exe was included as well, because the Manuel is not hard to get.

I already finished the game a few times before, and i never had any problems progressing, i was asked about the enagon each time. Its pretty much straight forward, and i would say it would be hard to get stuck. In your case, try playing the game, instead trying to get things to happen.

People say this game is hard, well i actually find it easy now that i'm older, and hopefully somewhat smarter. I didn't even understand English when i first finished it, which of cause was the source of the majority of the problems i had.

uffda

25-01-2009, 07:52 PM

In your case, try playing the game, instead trying to get things to happen.

Well, I suppose I COULD try to finish the game without Battle Tanks, not confident it would be possible, but.... ??

Not sure what you mean, otherwise ?
As I was playing for at least another game year(!) after discovering Phoenix, with not much happening besides the Morgruls attacking me....
(and I don't think I can invade them successfully without Tanks, using just the Troop transports)

Phelonians never spoke, no matter what I did in whatever order.

For the record, I DO have the original CD, check my first post.

darkland52

16-02-2009, 06:39 AM

You can really destroy reunion if you learn the best way to go about winning it. i can beat it in about 2 hours. I have a weird obsession with this game...every year or so i play it and refine my strategy for beating it lol. i set the taxes to oppressing right at the start then with my first bit of cash i buy the second level builder commander then i buy 4 hospitals, a vehicle plant, a stadium, 4 food resources, and 36 residential buildings ( yes 36 ). while keeping my power levels above 50% of course, which i think takes 2-3 nuclear generators. during this i set my taxes to very difficult, which becomes necessary after building the residential buildings or your colony will stop growing. This is all before i even get a researcher or anything else. This can give you about 10k credits every day. Now i buy the second level researcher and the first level pilot. I research satellites and buy 3 of them. I then launch one at the moon and then at zeus. I send my researcher to study electronics so he can research colony center when it becomes available. I put a mine on the moon. The moon is important cuz it uses the wind power plants. but doesnt require tons of medical plants and hospitals to maintain a large population. so build a colony on the moon first. Just as a side note i haven't built any mines or derricks at this point. on the moon you build a builder plant and a vehicle plant, a stadium, a leisure center, a church, a park, a university, 4 hospitals, 4 food resources, and 36 residential buildings. While keeping power levels above 50% with wind power, which takes about 8 or so wind power plants. then move on to zeus's moon penelope and and do the same thing and then onto amnesty 2 moon mir and repeat except you need to double the number of hospitals and build as many medicine plants so 8 of each. with all that youll be making anywhere from 20-30k credits a day. now start building mines on your home planet and putting miner droids in them. then move onto mir and build mines and a spaceport repeat on penelope then repeat on the moon. sometime in the middle of building the mines you should visit jade the last date possible is 2928-5-9-12 i always wait till the last moment to visit jade and get the communicator. once you get the transport ships buy ehm and start transporting all the resources to your home planet. You'll be making tons of cash by this point. as the money becomes available buy all the best commanders and you also need to build 80-100 derricks (yes i'm serious) all on your home planet. This takes a ton of nuclear generators as well but its necessary to make enough detoxin. sometimes around this point i buy another 36 buildings on the moon and on the main planet with another 4 hospitals and 4 food resources to go along with them. but you also have to drop your taxes to difficult and maybe even high for your population to grow any more, So there are trade offs. Again youll be making plenty of cash at this point so start building a constant stream of hunters. i normally get around 30-50 before the first attack. once the jaanosians are destroyed build 2 more colonies on there planets kepler and russel. Russel is an amazing planet for energon. you dont need to make them money producers just build all the happy making structures like the stadium, university and leisure center and then set there taxes to oppressive and they will grow slowly and wont bug you too much with there needs. build mines on them of course and get miner droids in those mines. You can get battle tanks before you even get twin laser guns if your quick enough. With this start you should have no problems crushing this game if you follow it closely and make sure you get all the good technology later on, just keep transporting resources and keep a constant stream of units producing. You quickly see that the real limit to how many units you can produce is how long it takes twin laser guns to build lol. By the end you can easily have 50 hunters 50 fighers 20 destroyers 10 cruisers and 50 missile tanks, Which is way more than enough to win the game. Ive left a lot of little details out like how exactly to get battle tanks and aircraft and the radio and all that stuff...but its covered elsewhere so get that info where its already posted

dosraider

16-02-2009, 10:23 AM

Buy a new keyboard.
Your punctuation and enter keys are missing strokes.

_r.u.s.s.

16-02-2009, 11:44 AM

i shall use this text as lore ipsum for my webdesigning tests

oxim

06-05-2009, 08:53 PM

Hi, i have a crash problem while playing reunion. Everything works fine until i start my first "colony", then it always crashes when i click on the "ship" menu.
Does anyone know a workaround or fix?

maz

09-05-2009, 01:39 PM

It seems like I've missed out on getting the battle tanks in the second system. I've even killed the Kalls without battle tanks. I only have troopers. There's no way I can reach the Morgrul's main base with only troopers, though. Is there a way of adding the battle tank to my save-game file?

Thanks,
warhawk

areyounuts

19-05-2009, 09:45 PM

I don't get why everyone is raving about this game. It sucks hard.

1. Time limit to do everything, and no way to pause or slow down. That would be fine if not for...

2. Terrible documentation that doesn't really explain anything.

3. Endlessly increasing uber-stacks of enemies = game cheats against you. Nothing stops ye olde rape traine.

4. Extremely repetitive gameplay due to an asstastic interface. You want to fetch minerals from your home planet's moon? Okay, go to the fleet window (1 click), pick the trade fleet you want (1 click), order them to take off (1 click), enter the course set window (1 click), pick your destination (1 click), and wait for them to get there. Then you have to manually land (1 click), manually go to the transfer screen (1 click), manually transfer what you want to the ship (several clicks), exit the transfer screen (1 click), take off (1 click), set course back to the home planet (2 clicks), wait again, then land (1 click), then manually go to the transfer screen (1 click), manually transfer what you want off the ship (several clicks), exit the transfer screen (1 click), and then you're done. Total clicks to get from A to B to A again with cargo: 16 or more. During this time, other things are happening, you'll be getting other messages, and you might be managing another fleet in the same way as well. What could have been a simple task is a massive journey of clicking through a dozen windows repeatedly.

The Amiga game Deuteros, which came out half a decade before this one, starts off with a similar click-heavy interface, but it then lets you research automated shuttles which reduces this stuff to zero clicks. In fact, I get the impression that this game is trying really hard to be like Deuteros, and failing at it really badly.

5. It's possible to make mistakes without even realizing it, putting the game into an unwinnable state. You won't discover this until potentially hours later when you can't proceed. If you didn't keep a series of paranoid backup saves at regular intervals, you have to restart from zero.

6. Bugs, bugs, bugs. Also, an embarrassing amount of misspellings (phisics? colonysible?).

7. Every click, EVERY CLICK, is accompanied by a female voice announcing what you just did. After about 5 minutes, it makes you want to find the bitch and slit her throat.

8. You'll never know what you're supposed to build to support your planet, since there's no indicators of how adequate your facilities are. You won't know you need more farms until starvation has already begun. There's nothing in the manual explaining how many homes to how many farms is an appropriate number. In fact, there's nothing in the manual about most of the buildings, what they do, what they're actually good for. And the in-game descriptions leave *everything* to be desired.

9. When you get a new technology that you can research, the game announces it by telling you that the said technology "is fully researched". But it's only at that point that you can START researching it.

10. Satellite carriers to carry the satellites. Was this really REALLY necessary? Honestly? Especially given that each one can only carry one satellite anyway? It seems like the developers entered into a conspiracy to make launching satellites as difficult as possible. When the game first starts and you get your first satellite, you are LED TO BELIEVE that all you have to do is locate the planet you want a satellite on, and click the satellite button to launch one there. Then the game destroys that satellite, says NO THAT IS WRONG and makes you research and build satellite carriers, which you have to navigate manually like the trade ships, making it a click-fest all over again.

11. The only strategy guide written for this game implies that the only real way to win is to know in advance what is coming and build up your own uber fleet of death literally as soon as you are able to build the necessary craft. There is apparently no "right" way to play the game except to fail repeatedly and then invoke your in-game psychic powers to know what's about to happen. "Why are we building this massive invasion fleet, sir?" "Oh, to destroy the enemies we don't know we have yet, but which will start a rape train on us in about 5 minutes when we discover them."

12. These rape trains are triggered by exploring the wrong places at the wrong times, after which you're screwed if you don't have aforementioned uber fleet of death. This discourages the player from exploring at all.

13. There really is no story to this game, notwithstanding the intro. It's just a series of pointless, meaningless wars that either end with you sending an uber fleet to their home world, or them sending an endless rape train to yours.

14. Did I mention rape trains?

15. Did I mention LOTS OF BUGS THAT CRASH THE GAME? This is not attributable to dosbox, I assure you. It's just as unstable in real genuine DOS 6.22

I submit that everyone who says this game is good is either saying so because they perceive that everyone else thinks so (herd mentality) or else they remember it being good when they were young children in the early 90s, back in the days when gaming technology sucked and it was easy to mistake "complicated and stupid" for "deep and rich". The game is ass, and that's why no sequel was made, and that's why Amnesty Design changed their name to Digital Reality after they made it. To disavow that they ever did make it.

dosraider

19-05-2009, 10:35 PM

I get a distinct feeling you didn't like the game.
:hysterical:

tag8833

28-05-2009, 02:46 PM

I haven't played the game in a while, and decided to start it up, and I was working fine until suddenly I started getting weird numbers. The price of satellites went up to 26,000,000,000 or something like that. When I tell it to buy 10, it buys 8 and costs me -46,000,000,000. When I attacked jade, the space force causalities were -2,000 hunters. So when I went back with my ground forces, the 2,000 hunters destroyed my space force.

Once I save a game in which an overrun occurs, it stays screwed up, and I can't tell when they are occurring.

I've run it before with dosbox .72 and it worked fine. I tried it with dosbox .73 and that didn't help.

Anyone have any thoughts?

dosboxnewbie

29-05-2009, 06:10 AM

I haven't played the game in a while ... suddenly I started getting weird numbers ...
Once I save a game in which an overrun occurs, it stays screwed up, and I can't tell when they are occurring.

I've run it before with dosbox .72 and it worked fine. I tried it with dosbox .73 and that didn't help.

Anyone have any thoughts?

First off, I just want to say a big thanks to all you people who keep this site running and the games available.

Now, the first time I played Reunion I did not know that there is a speed up feature and I also did not notice these "bugs" that are so often mentioned on the forum. Obviously, I lost the first couple of tries at Reunion because - well, like youmustbenuts said in section 11 of his/her rant: you have to know what's going to happen ahead of time. So, I tried playing the game again by using the sequence of saves which I had put together. It was *only* after I began using the speed up "feature" that I started noticing weird stuff going on - like losing a battle involving 8 of my fighters against 1 of their fighters and then getting a report that I lost 2000+ fighters , or that one where you try to invade Jade and there's a fleet of 200 Kall fighters that doesn't jive with your spy's report of the Kall fleet. After a few repetitions of reloading, speeding up and running into bugs, and paying attention to different counters, I came to the idea that these "bugs" are really just variations of one bigger counting critter which you will not see if you let the game run at its own pace - but which will surely show up as soon as you use the speed up feature.

I hope that helps.

I only ever made it to the point where I attacked the last opposing alliance race's homeworld (the homeworld of the race in system 6? with a picture of some kind of man bull in their description). I would win the space skirmish and I would win the ground battle itself but then some kind of error report would be displayed along with the victory report and the game would freeze. I briefly considered picking up again from an incorrupt save but the joy of the game had left me. For one, the resource transport system is a pain in the you know what; and second, I find it unfeasible to amass resources at the game's own pace (without using the "bug-inducing" speed up feature.) Ah, what a pity.

tag8833

01-06-2009, 09:19 PM

came to the idea that these "bugs" are really just variations of one bigger counting critter which you will not see if you let the game run at its own pace - but which will surely show up as soon as you use the speed up feature.

I've played the game dozens and dozens of times and never encountered that error before. This is the first time I've run into it, but also the first time I've tried to play the version availible here.

I'll dig out my original CD and see if that version has the same bug.

Simoneer

01-06-2009, 09:34 PM

Thank you, areyounuts; That was truly interesting reading. :D

ThunderSoul

09-06-2009, 07:01 PM

I've played this game for a long time... And I think I discovered just about everything. From setting the Morgruls against the Kalls so they don't form an alliance. (picking up their distress signal, sending a ship with a tractor beam, and telling them the Kalls'll attack them, then letting them go.) Or how to split the league and get the aircraft. (Build an observatory on a planet on Antares, discover its going supernova, help the Erans, and use them on the Undorlings to get those on your side.)

Interesting... I didn't get the Kalls to attack the Morgruls even by doing as you said AND before November 2928. Any ideas what the hell am I doing wrong? Can you tell me the order in which you did those things and if how you discovered Phoenix 1? Thanks!

myname

14-06-2009, 06:48 PM

During my struggle to get the battle tank plans, I discovered one particular numbers bug:

- I am strongly convinced that it is triggered by the Supernova in the 4th solar system. It was very consistant, as the second the supernova 'video' was done, it would be pointless to add a miner droid due to the -3000ish in stock, as explained below.

I notice this only because I have built an actual colony on the Keplar moon(don't remember which system it is in atm).
If I want to add more miner droids to my mines, I HAVE TO be quick enough to do this(including building 9 mines) BEFORE the supernova, or else the stockpile number have changed into a negative -xxxx, and same goes for the 'Missile' item.

- The 'plus' part of this is, that later, when I finally* get the battle tank plans(and researched them) as well as aircrafts!, the good folks on Keplar suddenly seem to have a huge stock of these, 2-5000+ !!....
(problem is then to produce enough lasers, heh !)

*: after umpteen re-starts trying to get the Phelonians to talk to me, and still having no idea what triggered that spy in the bar FINALLY telling me about a new race in Phoenix system and their location/planet(Phoenix1) !
(as discovering it myself does not seem to trigger communications whatsoever)

In my final attempt/restart I DID try to research things faster, gunning for the best researcher from get go, sacrifcing building too much stuff to pay the 250.000 + 1 or 2 upgrades, all so I could go to the Phoenix star system with a Galleon before the very first Mogrul attack - BUT, no idea if that really is the trick, though...

I DO believe the cracked version actually IS worse when it comes to bugs, as my success was achieved with a full restart on a freshly installed original copy (acquired some time after I started playing). But even this one gives me the Keplar bug.

...mind you, I have not researched or tested this properly, like a professional QA tester would do, so there is most likely factors and random bugs that will affect things quite differently... but I'm just happy I finally got a bit further...

As for this beeing a good game, weell... not really.
I only play because I got some flashback looking at the control room screen on the Abandonia download page, obviously having (tried to) played it a long time ago but totally forgotten all about it!
(weird feeling... as I normally remember the games I play)

Richo999

19-07-2009, 07:10 AM

There are a few nice bugs in the game before (havent tried after patching)

later in the game when you get acces to the plasma gun, its possible to swap twin laser guns directly for plasma guns.
how to do this:
- make as many twin laser guns as possible
- load them in youre cargo ships
- go either to: Jade moon russel, jade moon keppler, zeus moon pennelope, new earth moon. (dont know for sure wich planet it was just make as many colonies as possible and try)
- go to the colony and unload the twin laser guns.
- you see the moment you unload the twin laser guns an equal number of plasma guns show up.
- after you unloaded the twin laser guns fill youre cargo ships with plasma guns

this bug can realy save you some recources during the war with earth (after you defeatedt the multiply system alliances)

Unregistered2

10-03-2010, 10:54 AM

Hi everybody, I'm playing Reunion again after a long time but mirach system doesn't come availabe to expolre or even show up in the map...Can somebody tell me if i have do do something?I've beaten the third morgul wave and broken their alliance with the kalls, obteined the tank, reserched the spy ship, but nothing happens, just other waves or morguls arrive...Thanks.

Adis

17-06-2010, 12:33 PM

Yaeri

18-06-2010, 09:59 PM

Hi! Can anyone tell me what am i doing wrong. I cant build a base on other planet. I have a transport ship loaded with mining station. But still I cant do nothing. Please help!
P.S. Now I am in the stage where I found another star system.
To be able to build a colony you have to research it first. Then you have to send a sattelite to a planet and wait until you get feedback from the sattelite that the planet is habitable. On many planets you cannot build colonies. Simply click on the planet and on the map where you see the planet surface there's a build colony button at the top of the screen. (A colony costs 100.000 credits). Also you need at least the 2nd builder, because the first one is too noobish to know how to build a colony.

In order to research the colony, you have to have found a habitable planet, and I'm not sure but it's possible you have to have built a mine somewhere first. Even when you've done things like this, it will take a while before the research pops up. (Save your game, ultra speed through time to see if you've met the prerequisites, reload)

flameg0d

20-07-2010, 06:24 AM

Need a little help here,
the manual said there's green for pirate armada and blue for trade armada

but everytime I make an armada whether with a prate ship or not there's allways be green, not a big problem tho, so what I wanna ask is there's a way to trading with another peaceful aliens such as phelonians, erans etc

bliksempie

13-09-2010, 11:41 AM

Well, this game is only beaten by The Legend of Kyrandia, in my books, but nevertheless one of the best games I have ever played, including the so-called "modern", "graphically pleasing" and "intriguing" games.

What Starcraft2 is for the modern game, Reunion is for the DOS era... :-)

Bliksempie:hello:

Glibbersmurf

26-09-2010, 10:50 PM

After they tell me what happened to earth,

there's a bug in my game that makes me only be able to reply with something like:

z 3 ' C b v ! 6^&

and then I get a blank reply, nothing happens; no last technology, no last solar system. I tried skipping time for quite a bit, but also won't help. (I do get messages about weapon and cargo shippigns in and around the earth system though >.<)

I've tried reloading a bit before my last save, and replay the stuff, but same thing happens :(

That Den save linked earlier isn't available for download (anymore). Would anyone please upload a save (for the abandonia version) sometime after triggering that event how it's supposed to be (either just discovering the new system, or before the final attack).

I would be very thankful.

This is driving me nuts. (cool game, but horrible bugs ><)

Martin

Bajamamut

13-02-2011, 11:12 AM

I love this game, but it's glitchy as hell.

Now I've found another glitch that does not allow me to get Energon from some planets! (Mainly Rocky planets, when I try to send some Energon to my ship, it transfers it to the planet instead, and I cannot get it back!)

Does anyone know how glitchy the Amiga version is? If it's not so glitchy,or even not glitchy at all, I will play the Amiga version instead...

marko river

13-02-2011, 08:20 PM

Well, I remember they released Reunion New for PC which should be much better working... and I remember playing it back then... but I was unable to locate any info about it on the web now...

ShadowAUT

19-02-2011, 11:50 PM

Here, have a guide to getting ALL the tech in the game. I'm not 100% sure if I'm right on the Spy Satellite and the Spy Ship, but those you'll get anyway during the course of the game. The rest, I'm completely sure on;

Spy Satellite

Invented during the war with the Morgruls, to allow you to get information on alien colonies.

I know that this forum is really old and the replies too, but I'm playing reunion right now and defeated the second invasion and instantly after it I got the spy satelite, so maybe its allways after the second invasion?

MrFlibble

11-06-2011, 09:21 PM

Not long ago I've read at some gaming site that somewhere around 2005, Reunion had been officially released as freeware by Digital Reality, but I can't find any official proof of that fact. Neither Wikipedia nor the developer's website even mentions this, and Googling yields no immediately relevant results too. Anyone heard anything of this? I think it's quite possible, as the game does not seem to be too well-known, that this event had been generally unnoticed...

Dinic

13-07-2011, 09:33 PM

I remember playing this back in '95, but game is hard as hell, I never got trough 3rd invasion...:blush:

Themosgr

08-03-2012, 07:25 AM

hello
it is nice to play again ( time of amiga 600+ )one so great strategy game and to see that more veteran gamers zijn

I need your help for any tip or trainer , hex editor , for money

cheers

pipipi

05-05-2012, 07:53 PM

hello
it is nice to play again ( time of amiga 600+ )one so great strategy game and to see that more veteran gamers zijn

I need your help for any tip or trainer , hex editor , for money

cheers

Hello cananyone help me.I have this bug.When i create a carrier group or trade group i can not refill it with ships or satelites.I have to form new groups.Is there any solution for this?

pipipi

06-05-2012, 03:35 PM

Hello cananyone help me.I have this bug.When i create a carrier group or trade group i can not refill it with ships or satelites.I have to form new groups.Is there any solution for this?
Well it seems that it wasn't bug.I forgot to land with my carrier and trade group...

guest

11-08-2012, 12:22 PM

Hi all, just did some research, here is a table about the resource production of the first three systems:

planet detoxin energon kremir lepitium raenium texon colony

new earth 7 3 2 3 no no yes
apollo 5 1 3 1 9 - yes

amnesty2 no no 2 2 3 4 no
mir 5 7 1 2 5 - yes
vostok no no no no no no yes

klatoo
barada no 5 no no no 2 no

zeus
ithaca no 2 3 no 2 2 no
penelope no no no no 9 7 yes
syren no no no no no no yes

jade 9 2 2 3 no 9 yes
russell 2 9 no no 8 4 yes
wright no no no no no no yes
hartmann no no no no no no yes
galillei no 2 7 no no 6 no
kepler no no 9 3 3 6 no

phoenix1 no yes yes yes yes yes no

phoenix2 no 2 5 3 2 3 yes

phoenix5 no no no no yes no yes (phelonian)
moon1 no no no no no no yes (phelonian)

mirach2 no no no no no no yes

mirach3 4 4 4 4 2 3 yes (morgul)
moon1 no no no no no no yes (morgul)

mirach4 no yes no yes no yes no
moon1 3 3 2 1 3 8 yes
moon4 no no no no no no yes

mirach5
moon1 no no no no no no yes
moon3 no yes no yes no yes no

As far as I experienced the resource production is limited to certain number of buildings. You can build more but those won't produce. I'm not meaning the maximum of 9 mines / planet, but my first four colonies actually produced anything the rest - although had mines - not. Therefore it is very important to choose the right planets for mines which according to this should be the following:

amnesty2/mir
jade/russell

(phoenix2) - produces more energon than apollo (2 vs 1) but not too much, can be skipped, but available much earlier than mirach3

mirach3
mirach4/moon1

jade
apollo

zeus/penelope is NOT necessary since you don't need texon to produce hunter/laser and after the defeat of jenossians you can have russell which produce texon. raenium is present on mir. apollo (moon of new earth) is also not needed for mining.

I haven't tested that what causes this: the number of mines, or the number of colonies.

Jaakko J from Finland

06-11-2012, 07:45 PM

I was playing, trying to beat the game (this game really MAKES you try, really good in that way!) and noticed something odd. Sometimes, when I visited my colony on a different star system, I noticed how the ore levels seemed surprisingly low - even though I had fastforwarded for let's say a hundred ticks just now.

So, I used Cheat Engine to track the values of ore on different planets. This is what I noticed: Only the LAST SOLAR SYSTEM VISITED produced ANYTHING!

If I looked at System 1 with New Earth on it, the ore amounts from New Earth started to build up. When I looked at System 2 with Phoenix 2 and my colony on that, the New Earth resources stopped building up and the Phoenix 2 resources started to build up again.

Also: Sometimes when I look at the mines on Phoenix 2, (for example), the Energon production is 18 t/tpt. This is true sometimes, as the ore increses by 18 per hour. BUT sometimes it increases 36 per hour, and sometimes even 54! Just what is going on?

The issues:
1) Resources stop building on other solar systems than the one last visited
2) Resources randomly build up by multipliers of 1, 2 or 3, in a seemingly random fashion and ONLY by whole numbers 1, 2 or 3.

Anyone else experience these?

Jaakko J from Finland

13-11-2012, 12:09 AM

Seems that my Lyrae 7 is bugged once and for all, hence I can never eliminate the League to advance in the game. I've tried to load pre-Lyrae explored games only to find this same thing happening:

I cannot launch a satellite, spy-sat or, of course, a spy ship onto Lyrae 7 or moon 1. This is the planet you end up on once you enter the Lyrae system.

So, I can never detect the Lisonian presence there - and therefore cannot start a ground for and thus eliminate the Lisonians and the League.

I've come so far in the game only to end up like this! I'm not giving up. It's a fun game cause it makes you fight not only the game plot itself but also a myriad of bugs and glitches :D Really entertaining! It's like a meta-game, making the gamer use all kinds of tools and programs! Hex-editing, Cheat engine - not to cheat but to make the game work :D ahahaha

Jaakko J from Finland

13-11-2012, 12:16 AM

Mwhahaha, I figured out a solution! I load a save where I haven't allied with the Undorlings - and never do that either! I'll just ally with the Lisonians instead (it will cost me the Aircraft but at least I can still play.. :D) so I'll never have to destroy them and so, beat the "can't send a satellite on Lyrae7"-problem!

Makes me kinda sad, mad + happy all at the same time, this one :D

im4k4ruM

23-12-2012, 08:53 AM

hello guys, i don't know if anyone still interested but i've discovered how to modify save file and add battle tank if you forget to get from Phelonians or Kalls...you have to open save file with hex editor and modify like in the picture

http://www.lasisile.it/imakarum/reunion.jpg

enjoy!

:)

Guest

05-01-2013, 11:11 PM

Slavo

02-06-2013, 09:34 PM

Hi to you all.

I am playing the Amiga version (with wUAE) and I encountered a problem. I don't know if it is a bug or I failed doing some right procedure.

I made first contact with the Jenossians, researched the communicator and now it's ready. Am I supposed to buy/produce one now? Because I can't. The bottom bar says that I need only one of this stuff, but when I click on the BUY icon nothing happens. I can buy anything else but as in the case of the control center (which is built), I can't use the buy button on the communicator. Therefore I need to produce it in some other screen but where and how? Tell me if you have encountered this before.

You don't need to produce or buy the communicator, you only have to research it, and game will "use" it.
BTW i can't find that purple guy in the bar (Earthling that is supposed to give you information about alien that is controlling the Earth) could someone post a screen shot with big red circle where exactly he is, its driving me crazy :P

Rvlion

22-12-2013, 08:43 PM

The game is only hard in the period before you eliminate the Morgruls...

After you kill those you have unlimited time to build your space and ground forces so by the time you attack the league you can have loads of destroyers/fighters and 600+ Battle tanks fully armed.

The only thing that always bothered me was that thinks could not be managed automaticly.
Resources had to be collected and delivered to a planet by the player.
Also colonizing worlds was important, but defending any world but New Earth was a waste of time, because no other world will ever be attacked.

I always tend to play this game once every few years and might play it again before the year is over.
It remains forever in my top 3 older games of all times... Colonization, Reunion and Master of Orion.

dfTruF

02-03-2014, 08:09 PM

The only thing that always bothered me was that thinks could not be managed automaticly.

Reunion would be a perfect game if some essential options was present:
* Option for automatic transport routes (from planet A to B, with specific goods).
* Option for automatic exploration (by satellites and/or trading group) newly discovered planets.
* Brief (on one page) report of all colonies condition.
* List of all natural resources available on known planets.

Besides, this game has huge potential as a sandbox game, without rigid storyline (but still with essential artifacts placed on some random planets). Every new game should start with random planetary systems (with fresh characteristics) to explore. Then it would had incredible replay value.

jagthered

20-04-2014, 05:45 AM

how do I play reunion using dosbox?

The Fifth Horseman

22-04-2014, 05:29 AM

Read the DOSBox guides in Troubleshooting->Tutorials

psycrow

01-12-2014, 10:05 PM

Hey :)

I was wonderinf if this game still crashes alot ?

LLIR

19-08-2015, 05:40 AM

I was wonderinf if this game still crashes alot ?[/QUOTE]

It crashes sometimes...but the main problem are bags you cannot avoid or load earlier saved game.

For example, one time Hitachi has over 4000 launchers) after I escaped the battle 3000 were killed automatically. But there were still too many launches and you can't win win with tanks or aircraft.

I can add that using cheat I tried to save jennosuans and sent destroyers to defend them. No way, they will die anyway.

At the and if the game I met human from earth. She asked me for help with money for revolution and also asked to kill three leader telepath. After sending killer he was really killed, but nothing happened. She appeared again with the same words, but that was no killer at bar any more)

So I afraid there is no alternative end, or it was bagged too.

guest1337

18-12-2015, 04:09 PM

I can't get the game to run :(

I tried every sound setting, but the game crashes during the intro - so I played without sound. But as soon as the intro is finished, the mouse is stuck.

Does anyone else have this problem, and maybe even an idea to fix this issue?

Putishka

15-10-2016, 09:23 AM

Thank you for this game! Such a precious jewel of strategy...

Played this on Amiga for first time, than tried it on PC, but always the same problem (no freaking tanks :suspicious: , now i read all of this 34 pages) but now I want to play it again, and like 17 years later try to finish it...

Thank you guys for info, I'm gonna contact you in few days :OK:

marko river

15-10-2016, 01:24 PM

No tanks? That's strange.

IIRC you always get tanks from the first aliens when they make alliance with you. More precisely, they offer either money or technology, but you should take technology and I think that's tanks. And build just a few so when neighbor aliens are destryoed by those first and biggest alien enemy, you can invade them right away before they bring more troops. Evil aliens will at that moment have only a few ground forces so you conquer the planet with just a handful of those tanks. I remember this was a cheap way to get new colony since new colony is established after successfull attack, you don't need that expensive colony module or whatever it is called.

Or maybe you are reffering to some more advancd tanks, I no longer remember exactly.

Anyway, after you manage to defeat those first aliens, don't build new colonies. You are already strong enough and I remember there is a bug that limits your total number of buildings. So you would create building on new colony and somewhere else the building will disappear.

You should finish the game, since it was amazing and everything. But don't expect too much till the end. I was a bit disappointed expecting much more diversity, but I guess they already put a lot into the game.

"hire me or I'll kill you" :)

Putishka

18-10-2016, 06:17 PM

[QUOTE=marko river;466325]No tanks? That's strange.

Got those tanks :) I was playing amiga version, witch is different (at least mine is), but now game just freeze, after like 3 hours of game every time I jump to galactic map it just freeze, and there is (and I'm totally serious about this) some strange screen with something like mushrooms and everything else it's just fuzzy... Don't know, tried it 3 times, almost every time same bug... BUUUUT I'm not surrendering gonna play this until i finish it :smugulon:

And you are hired :rolleyes: I saw that :rolleyes: but I never hire him :)

P.S. Just one Q for you :) (koji deo BG-a?)

marko river

18-10-2016, 08:21 PM

Hmmm, aren't mushrooms part of jungle planet scenery when you land on it? Maybe it mixing what to display and breaking. I didn't have this problems, although I heard lot of stories that game is buggy in the second half, only my bugs didn't prevent me from playing. Good luck then with your persistence :)

P.S. Auuu moram da update-ujem account, ne zivim u BG vec godinama :D A i drzavu bih mogao da updatujem kad malo bolje pogledam :D

Putishka

19-10-2016, 04:46 PM

Nope I'm totally assured that mushroom bug is actually simple bug (not one of that green planets surface), now there is no bug for now... Been playing for like hours yesterday and nothing, we shall see :max:

P.S. Meni te opcije uopšte ne prihvata, stavio sam mesto i grad ali ništa i dalje kaže updejtovano, a onda stoji N/A :oh:

marko river

20-10-2016, 08:08 AM

Yeah, could be our website is a bit buggy... I mean there are lot of bugs, could be changing adress is one of them.

Anyway good luck with Reunion bugs. The game does deserve to be completed, although I'm sad it didn't add even more diplomacy. Good game still.

Mystvan

14-06-2017, 12:42 AM

I never played this game named Reunion, although my brother liked it very much.

With the use of Game Wizard Editor (looks more Trainer than Editor), you could change the wealth and other game details. The only one though of this wonderful tool is MS-DOS and Windows 3.x compatibility only. :(

As some Abandonians mentioned in previous posts, at some point in the game, the game crashed and was abandoned by my brother several years ago... :sick: :lame:

It is a pity. If someone could fix all the bugs, it would be a great strategy game.

By the way, marko river... I’ve never seen an Abandonian with as many powers (or badges) as you. :o :omg:

You just missed being a member of Grammar Squad... :max: :rocks: :kuger:

I will add more details.

• I do not know if the Game Wizard works on Winsows 95;

• I would like a more detailed and complete Walkthrough - Wikipedia gives an overview since the beginning to the end of the game;

• The Game Wizard is very versatile, because I remember it worked on Syndicate (before we know the cheat codes), Master of Magic, Gods, etc. It was a wonderful Mega Trainer / Editor... :OK:

• The Game Wizard leaves you so powerful that you are able to defeat the last hostile alien race. I remember my brother had a powerful squadron that was defeating the enemy squad when it suddenly boomed! Big Bang! And the game has always crashed on the same spot so be abandoned forever... :headslap: :palm: :picard:

In relation to marko river...

• He only needed to have an avatar among the Admins, Updaters and Mods in Realms of Abandonia :ninja: :frodo:;

• I think the marko river just does not have the Elite, Staff and Grammar Squad badges. :yahoo: :smugulon: :roll:

EDIT:

Unless someone releases a bug fix patch to the game Reunion, I doubt anyone will be able to reach the end of the game. If anyone managed to finish the game, there must have been quite a few players. :sick:

And no wonder there are just a few walkthroughs about the game and only with information with few details.

I have a lot of desire to play the game, but I prefer to avoid the frustration of not being able to finish the game merely due to the bugs. :sick: :lame:

EDIT:

It would be nice if GOG.com tried to fix the bugs of the game and release it on its store...

EDIT:

I may be mistaken, but maybe after and epic stellar battle, it would be the last step before humans could return to Earth.

Unfortunately, bugs in the game do not allow humans to reunite with their fellow humans on the home planet. Lost in space forever...

I sincerely hope that GOG.com can offer this game with the other classics (Dune series, Gods, Flashback, etc.) to its customers.

Hlges

04-12-2017, 04:53 PM

Mystvan

04-12-2017, 10:50 PM

Hi, all!

I have played this game since I was a teenager (mid 1990's)! I have developed some kind of obsession with it... :blush:

Anyway, since Dosbox was launched, I never had trouble making it work. Also, after all these years, I have written a guide to it, available in Gamefaqs (I won't put the link here because I don't know if this breaks the forum rules).:max:

I have never experienced the bugs described here, and I play this game since the 1990's. Probably a bad copy?

Hello. I am not sure because I cannot remember the facts of more than 20 years ago. I presume the causes of the problem could be:

• Bad copy mentioned by you with corrupted files;

• (Old) Game patch with bugs. Bugs of Sam & Max have already caused problems, but those do not compare with bugs of FFVIII :hairpull: :wall:. Probably the bugs of FFVIII are comparable to the bugs of Reunion;

• Use of the editor / trainer GameWizard at this point in the game;

• Unknown causes?

By the way, thank you for the Walkthrough / Guide. :kosta: Unfortunately, Reunion does not have many tips or guides in an organized way (Walkthrough, Guide, etc.)... :headslap:

Hlges

05-12-2017, 01:51 PM

Mystvan

05-12-2017, 10:30 PM

I copied the files of my original CD to the hard drive a long time ago (and have been copying this image when I get new hardware). Here, it works perfectly. No bugs that compromise the playthrough.

Lucky to you all! :OK:

Hello. Would it be possible if you could offer your copy (original on CD) in Forum Offers (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/forumdisplay.php?f=105) please? :kosta:

Depending on the file size, the link for game could be made available in Forum The ISO Cellar (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/forumdisplay.php?f=43).

We would be grateful for your offer. :OK:

Nilex

07-12-2017, 11:31 PM

Just finished sorting the game to work on DOSBox for myself, so of course I had to check its Abandonia topic before I depart :)
Here is best DOSBox tip I can offer: use Gravis Ultrasound for sound! The quality is superb compared to Adlib/SB variants. I even think the music was composed specifically for it - that's how better it sounds. And speech is there too.
For Gravis to work you'll have to run game's own SETUP.EXE and choose it [1.], then change following DOSBox lines in .conf:
sbtype=none
gus=true
gusbase=220
2nd best choice is SB Pro but DOSBox does not emulate stereo with that card. For it to work correctly (but in mono) "sbtype=sbpro1" must be set. If you leave =sb16 then you will hear the absolute worst SB16 sound of your entire life.

@Hlges
Thanks for the Guide! How is 2018 treating you? :max:

@Mystvan
Looks like the ISO Cellar already has the CD-Image :)

Mystvan

08-12-2017, 12:58 AM