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What causes rescuing diplomats to fail in Colony Invasion?
frtoaster
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Often, I will tag a diplomat for beam out, but the report at the end of the mission does not show the diplomat as rescued. Someone told me that it fails when strike team is active. But I've seen a player successfully rescue a diplomat while the strike team was active. I've also suspected the following causes:
1. You cannot rescue a diplomat while under attack.
2. You cannot rescue a diplomat while under red alert.
3. You cannot rescue a diplomat if he or she runs away during the attempt.
Today, I tried to rescue a diplomat who was standing still while I was not in red alert (and hence not under attack) and while strike team was not active. It still failed. So what is the cause? Is there any chance we might get a bug fix?
1. You cannot rescue a diplomat while under attack.
2. You cannot rescue a diplomat while under red alert.
3. You cannot rescue a diplomat if he or she runs away during the attempt.
Today, I tried to rescue a diplomat who was standing still while I was not in red alert (and hence not under attack) and while strike team was not active. It still failed. So what is the cause? Is there any chance we might get a bug fix?
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That's my 2 ec anyway.
Original Join Date: Jan 2010
But if you hang back and the relevant mob group hasn't even spawned yet, or has but hasn't aggroed to anything, the timer doesn't actually start. You can see that on the second wounded colonist, since you can see them from way beyond aggro range, and their timer doesn't start moving till you pick a fight with that colonist's mob group. A group with a little patience can completely control the situation, engage one group at a time with full buffs, and still get all the objectives, particularly if everyone is using long-range weapons. People charging ahead and triggering multiple groups make it more complicated that it needs to be.
Note that I've run ahead and successfully rescued diplomats before. Also, the first and third diplomat are more likely to fail than the second. But the mob group for the first diplomat almost always spawns, because people are delayed by downloading the data from the first console and rescuing the first colonist. Perhaps, you cannot rescue the diplomat when its mob group has spawned but not been killed yet: you can do it only before they spawn or after they're dead. That's just a guess though.