Alpha centauri thread?

Not sure what the fuck your point even is
Don't make threads if you're not gonna participate in them
But yes, I've totes been spamming your thread
Fuck me for giving a shit about this game

Pro
>mandatory spanking mortification

Cons


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The game is old enough to vote, I don't think it has achievements. Probably a good thing looking at the crapflood of pointless achievements in civ 5 that serve no purpose beyond letting firaxis track what players do.

Zak is an interesting guy but I think you're overselling his moral compass there.

You seriously misremember. It was Yang, not Zakharov, who had the quote about god and dice, and he was referencing Einstein who said "God does not play dice" as his rebuke of quantum mechanics. The in-game quote goes "Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." and it accompanies Probability Mechanics. And Miriam's own faction quote makes it clear that she isn't anti-science but rather opposed to the potential for immorality within science, so it isn't that much in the way of character development as much as it is a clear reflection of her character that comes increasingly to the fore as late-game techs become increasingly concerning in their potential.

Holy shit, we found someone who actually read the novel here? Last I checked no one cared about the novel. We don't really judge the cast by the shit that went on in the novels.

They also got killed off in the in-game lore. Deirdre wrecked their base with mindworms.


Deirdre is already top tier. If she could use Free Market economics with her massive efficiency bonus she'd be plain overpowered. If you want maximum bullshit go play cyborgs from the lousy expansion. They can run Free Market economics just fine. If you want to be a turbo-capitalist though just go Morgan. Funnily enough Morgan doesn't need Free Market since with his bonus econ he can just run Wealth and enjoy the +2 econ needed to get all his tiles producing extra energy. Since Morgan has shit population caps he's usually better off base-spamming with high efficiency (dem/green) while on wealth I think.


Might've been from the really early alpha centauri patches when there wasn't a capture limit on mind-worms, resulting in Deirdre destroying the world with her free mindworm army. It was ridiculously OP.


Pretty sure she's a raging protestant.

So, you're saying anal in not a sin and I should add all the cornbread one can eat under PROs? Excellent news my man.

How about the stories? I still preferred Saratov to Zakharov although I find the whole spartan infiltration rather naive. Santiago made sense as a mall cop drunk on her own power.

Where can I download Alpha Centauri novel e-books?

Don't know about PDF, but I read all three books when I was about 3rd year in middle school. Found them in the school library. Also would like PDF though, memory is fuzzy, but as I did said, after the book, I fucking hate Deirdre with all passion and fucking love Sister Miriam though she should go hatefuck with Zakharov, they are both too busy bickering (read:war) over the internet.

Fungal blooms only happen because of eco-damage thresholds and I think when you're rushing ascent. alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Ecology

The laziest way to avoid ecodamage is to create forests, which are a little too effective as tiles. Honestly the planet mechanic and ecodamage in alpha centauri needs a bit of reworking.


Anyone want to tier up SMAC factions? I think this list is about right.

Top tier: University, Gaians, Hive
Mid tier: Morganites, Believers, Peacekeepers
Bottom tier: Spartans

It's worth noting that the tiering thing isn't as big in Alpha Centauri (Spartans can totally demolish other factions early on with rover rushes, for instance), but overall I think as the game drags on it usually winds up progressing like this.

I could never understand why would anyone choose anyone except the Russian scientists.
Technology gives you control over everything, better weapons, better management of your cities, etc.


Okay.

She's not. Different eye colour