LK tries SMAC again

[HansLemurson]

What is sad is I get more one more turn urge from this ancient game, then I do from Civ6.  I never dig figure out Civ6.  

I have pondered this myself.  Civ6 just never grabbed me or left any desire to master or replay it.  Is this a product of nostalgia?  Am I just accustomed to a type of game that isn't popular any more?  If I were younger and played Civ5/6 first, how would I feel?  I don't know.



I have a question about one of your pictures though: Where did all the roads come from around Virgin Soil?  The rest of your road network seems to just connect cities, but this is a fully enmeshed grid with no other developments.  Was it from a random event?

[LKendter]

I have a question about one of your pictures though: Where did all the roads come from around Virgin Soil?  The rest of your road network seems to just connect cities, but this is a fully enmeshed grid with no other developments.  Was it from a random event?

It was all built. You may see the colonly pod heading to where the fast unit is. It was done planning on the next city coming down.

[T-hawk]

Going to have to find this .ini setting before my next round.  I have a large monitor, that can handle far larger graphics.

DirectDraw=0

Add that anywhere under [Alpha Centauri] in Alpha Centauri.ini in the game folder.  (I'm using an original CD installation, don't know if it's different for the GOG version, but doubt it.)

With that, I had to turn off wonder movies, or else the video mode switch that happens with that screws things up.  Alt-Tab may also function weirdly.  Seems to work better if you set the desktop to 8-bit color depth before launching the game.

While you're editing the .ini, you may also find WinsFileBox=1 to be useful, it replaces the load/save dialog with a standard Windows dialog.  (I so wish the later Civs had this.)

[haphazard1]

The GOG version does some weird stuff with Alt-Tab, but it can be fixed to work normally without too much difficulty. There is some info on how to do it in the comments at the GOG site for SMAC.

[LKendter]

I complete the Planetary Transit System.

What a difference in the next governor vote.  People = power is true in the whole Civs series.  My population versus the world is much better.

   

I catch stupid fighting.  The two weaklings of Hive and Sparta are fighting each other.

[haphazard1]

Planetary Transit plus colony pod spam looks really strong. But if you are not sending out a lot of colony pods, nearly useless. The SMAC SPs are interesting, with some big variability.

For the two weaklings, maybe they are weak because they have been fighting for a while?

[LKendter]

I have another nearby island to settle. Room for multiple cities.
First transport with colony pod heading there right now.

Plus I still have stray spots to fill on the main island. Probably still 10+ cities to drop down.

[T-hawk]

Are you near Doctrine Air Power? Needlejet colony pods are a very cool way to settle islands fast.

[LKendter]

Are you near Doctrine Air Power?  Needlejet colony pods are a very cool way to settle islands fast.

Nope, still a while to get there. Still need to do a lot for energy output.
I do plan to spend all my rush cash on the new island. It is going to need a ton of former work since it is drowning in fungus.

[T-hawk]

Don't waste former turns removing fungus until you've improved everything else. Get forests on every other tile first, since they can automatically grow into fungus squares.