Sid Meier's Alpha "We've Fucked Up the Earth, Let's Go Ruin Another Planet" Centauri

[Ort Lofthus]

Gotta get set up to make the switch to Free Market without wrecking yourself in the process. With all your bonuses as Morgan, you take your silly income levels and make them downright absurd.





Hive inefficiency immunity is immunity to the inefficiency from having a massive empire. They get a growth bonus and industry bonus to boot, so they are set up to spread like wildfire and run quantity-over-quality armies. Downside is the hit to economy, so they don't have all that much money for their size.

[Ampoliros]

Hive inefficiency immunity is immunity to the inefficiency from having a massive empire. They get a growth bonus and industry bonus to boot, so they are set up to spread like wildfire and run quantity-over-quality armies. Downside is the hit to economy, so they don't have all that much money for their size.

Yeah, that's what i figured. I remembered at least once going for a huge world with just massive city sprawl as university (to the point where the base naming algorithm runs out of names), and losing huge percentages of my energy income to base sprawl inefficiency (afaik, i was cheating so nbd but it was still interesting). If the hive are immune, then lol.

[Vortex]

Hive inefficiency immunity is immunity to the inefficiency from having a massive empire. They get a growth bonus and industry bonus to boot, so they are set up to spread like wildfire and run quantity-over-quality armies. Downside is the hit to economy, so they don't have all that much money for their size.

Yeah, that's what i figured. I remembered at least once going for a huge world with just massive city sprawl as university (to the point where the base naming algorithm runs out of names), and losing huge percentages of my energy income to base sprawl inefficiency (afaik, i was cheating so nbd but it was still interesting). If the hive are immune, then lol.

Hive are immune to social settings. I'd have to check which type of immunity (there are a couple coded in) to know/remember if it applies to the penalty of sprawling bureaucracy. Either way, that you can run police state + planned economy and :trollface: the penalties is very strong.

[Idara]

Want to be sure that anyone playing it has enabled scaling to their monitor's native resolution.

http://www.wsgf.org/dr/sid-meiers-alpha-centauri

[Lancehot]

Old people in this thread

Hey I was 11 when this came out (neckbeard since before I could grow one)

[FatFreddy]

posting in support of the quarterly Alpha Centauri praise

[Helen]

Old people in this thread

Hey I was 11 when this came out (neckbeard since before I could grow one)

Great now I feel old.

[chiefyk]

Posting to say I was 10 when I got this game, it is incredible. Kids these days missed out.

[dzajic]

15 or 16 for me

[Dahak]

Played this for a while when I was rather young, surely didn't understand most of the mechanics. Also, the three books that were written aren't bad.

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Rather unhappy endings, though.

[Doomed Predator]

Played when I was quite young as well. Had no clue what I was doing and just kept researching stuff for the neat movies.

[Grarr Dexx]

I played this shit to death. Didn't really understand anything as a youngin, but it was amusing nonetheless.

[cheeba]

Played this for a while when I was rather young, surely didn't understand most of the mechanics. Also, the three books that were written aren't bad.

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Rather unhappy endings, though.

confirming that i read the first 2 books and enjoyed them.

the game had a great story and was suprisingly complex.

I keep a copy installed on my work netbook so that when im travelling for work i can play. such an easy game to run, i always have a copy on hand for those bored moments when travelling

[Muffinsrevenger]

I played this before i understood English at all, was tricky at times

Also always played on transcendent since that was at the bottom of the list when you picked difficulties, and got destroyed by the AI all the time

[Cogs]

My ingame Eve name is a variant of Aki, the faction leader of the Cybernetic Consciousness.

I also 'liked' Prime Function Aki Zeta-5 on Facebook a couple of months ago.

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Screw you Hive for being so expansionist and being so hard to take down, screw you Spartans for constantly spamming artillery units at me and last but not least screw you Sister Miriam Godwinson for despising me ALL THE TIME.

Definitely a top three game for me, it's always the first game I install on a PC.

[Larkonis Trassler]

Enjoyed this, in fact I fired it up a few months ago. Used to play as university and hogged all the secret projects (some of which were ridiculously OP).
Was a bit of a pain towards the endgame when if you took your eye off the ball with regards to ecology your bases would get raped by 20+ max mindworm boils every turn.

[Sparq]

I used to roll University, the best games went using Santiago as my sword and the ecologists as my shield, carefully feeding them technology - never too much, though. Eliminating Miriam since she seemed to hate me the most, followed by the Hive. Morgan either came around to my thinking quickly or would be taken out by other factions without my intervention, usually I tried to keep him around for votes though. The U.N. were usually the first to go.

Back when I first played, my pirate copy didn't have any of the videos. So when I picked it up a while back I was stunned at what I had been missing out on

Never played the expansion, though.

[pratell]

man some of my favorite quotes came from this game, like the one from sun tzu about the pinnacle of military deployment approaching the formless, which was on the hunter-killer algorithm i think. or the whole WE MUST DISSENT by godwinson. great stuff.

[Venec]

Gaians were also fun; everywhere I planted xenofungus and watched as it grew and destroyed other factions improvements. And then I sent mindworms to rape the starving, rioting cities.

[Vortex]

We Must Dissent.