# Alien base bug - game breaking

**URL:** <https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/alien-base-bug-game-breaking/11473>\
**Category:** Bug Discussion\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/alien-base-bug-game-breaking/11473 "2020-09-03T09:13:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LouisdeFuines](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forums.snapshotgames.com/louisdefuines/32/2605_2.png) [@LouisdeFuines](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/LouisdeFuines)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/alien-base-bug-game-breaking/11473/1 "2020-09-03T09:13:56Z")

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I`m midgame. Still have to raid my first alien base to get alien containment. I finally found a citadel to raid by cheating help of a dev who told me, where the bases are. Guess what, I conquered the citadel and game still demands from me to raid a base. Thus I can not complete the game. BIG ANNOYANCE!

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**Author:** ![LouisdeFuines](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forums.snapshotgames.com/louisdefuines/32/2605_2.png) [@LouisdeFuines](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/LouisdeFuines)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/alien-base-bug-game-breaking/11473/2 "2020-09-03T09:32:24Z")

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I tested it via console:  
A nest counts as Pandoran colony, not the citadel.

This is clearly a bug and wasn`t there before Cthulhu.

I provide the savegame here:  
[https://workupload.com/file/mgAnwcQqAt9](https://workupload.com/file/mgAnwcQqAt9)

Just evacuate the last soldier from the citadel and see: Still no Pandoran colony conquered.

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**Author:** ![MadSkunky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forums.snapshotgames.com/madskunky/32/2650_2.png) [@MadSkunky](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/MadSkunky)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/alien-base-bug-game-breaking/11473/3 "2020-09-03T11:28:16Z")

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> [@LouisdeFuines](#):
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> Thus I can not complete the game.

You can, even when Citadels are out, new Nests and Lairs can already spawn.

> [@LouisdeFuines](#):
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> A nest counts as Pandoran colony, not the citadel.
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> This is clearly a bug and wasn`t there before Cthulhu.

I don’t know if it was there before Cthulhu or not, because in all of my campaigns I have conquered at least one Nest, mostly right at the start the first one, before Citadels spawn.  
But yes, it seems to be a bug, so F12 is your friend 😉

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**Author:** ![LouisdeFuines](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forums.snapshotgames.com/louisdefuines/32/2605_2.png) [@LouisdeFuines](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/LouisdeFuines)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/alien-base-bug-game-breaking/11473/4 "2020-09-03T11:35:37Z")

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> [@MadSkunky](#):
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> You can, even when Citadels are out, new Nests and Lairs can already spawn.

That is no solution, sadly.  
I used a known console command to reveal all colonies. There were only 2 nests and one citadel.  
It takes a LOT of time, till a nest evolves into a lair. Time I feel, I don`t have now.  
My population is now down to 45 %.

And again: It is an annoyance to find that colonies. See my other thread.

NO second or third team would help me, since haven attacks are so time limited now, that I have hardly more then 5 hours to arrive.

Take my word:  
Before Cthulhu any colony counted. This is new now.