GBA

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Hi, there are some things about GBA:

First the well-known stuff:

* All fighters, assault craft, special buildings, colonists, crew,
troops and highguards of the base that initated the merge simply
vanish.
* All other stuff of the base that initated the merge (MCs, supplies,
common buildings, ...) is added.
* If there are more buildings of a type than allowed, they are reduced
to the max. allowed number.

Less known:

* Exception: If both bases were owned by empires of the same race, the
fighters ,assault craft and special buildings *don't vanish*, but are
added, too.
* Special buildings are *not* added, if the bases belonged to different
races, even if both of these races have that device
(Tested with Feds/Peeps/Birds and Resort).

Even less known:

* If the base initiating the merge via GBA had a lower ID than the
other base, the resulting base has the ID of the GBAing base and
inherits its settings/attributes including Friendly Code (!), Name,
Happiness...
(We should ask Tim, if this is really intended or a bug)

An now something really weird:

3 Bases on a planet:

Player 1(Fed) : ID 503, Friendly Code 111, Command Code GBA
Player 2(Bird): ID 511, Friendly Code 222, Command Code GBA
Player 3(Peep): ID 508, Friendly Code 333, Command Code GBA

Next Turn:

Player 1(Fed) : -
Player 2(Bird): ID 508, Friendly Code 333, Command Code AAA*
Player 3(Peep): ID 503, Friendly Code 111, Command Code AAA**

* The log of ID 503 says : "a base has merged with us".
** The log of ID 508 shows only the stuff of the base it has merged
with (the log stated something about the mole drills of Player 3)

(I don't know how this happens. Anyone an idea?)

Jochen