WW15 - Chiron is a harsh mistress

[Injera]

Here's a breakdown of all the factions if anyone is curious:

http://sidmeiersalphacentauri.wikia.com/wiki/Factions

Let's not read too much into flavor text, though.

[waterbat]

Checking in! Always wanted to play SMAC, but sadly never got to it.

So I have little to add flavor-wise except that I'm still bitter from the last WW go-around.

I'm glad we forgot to bring a one particular species to AC with us:

chicken

[Bobchillingworth]

Captain Ulrik Svensgaard already regretted his decision to attend Lal's stupid Planetary Council thing. Svensgaard, known to his men as "Captain Sven", was a wanted man across most of Planet. The whole thing reeked of a trap. Not that he didn't necessarily have it coming to him, if it was. Sven didn't have any delusions as to the morality of his profession. He was a brigand and a thug on Planet's high seas. There was nothing romantic about the raids he and his men launched periodically from their secret Sea Colony bases, unlike the pirates he had seen in old Earth entertainment holovids. Hell, he couldn't even claim to be on the same ethical level as the pirates who had plagued Earth throughout the 21st century- at least a lot of those guys had plundered to feed their starving desert villages or whatever. Sven's Nautilus Pirates already had self-sustainable aquaculture in their biodomes and even sophisticated manufacturing facilities "requisitioned"; from other Factions or occasionally manufactured on-site. They raided cities and pillaged field labs for sport.


Anyway... where was he? Although he retained his physical youth thanks to the gene therapy all Faction leaders had access to, Sven was well over a hundred years old now, and he lost his train of thought easily. Oh, right, he was an ignoble scoundrel. Well, that was true enough, but that certainly didn't mean he was particularly eager to surround himself with enemies. But he couldn't have ignored Lal's summons either- the threat posed by the NAP of Evil Civs was too great. It was existential. The Nautilus Pirates might be jerks, but they weren't bent on world domination. If the price to pay for security was infamous Captain Ulrik Svensgaard trimming his beard, wading ashore and pretending to make eye contact with Planet's finest, then so be it.

[Lewwyn]

So are we revealing our characters? Not a role claim, but a name claim?

[Bobchillingworth]

Hi all! Despite what I posted in the sign-up thread, I'm probably not going to do much more in the way of role-play, unless it really catches on here.



Anyway, since nobody seems to have mentioned this, check out this section I've bolded of the win condition:

You win when all threats to humanity are destroyed.

Note how it does not say "when the NAP alliance is destroyed". Def. vague enough to account for one or more additional Wolf factions.



Pointless starting vote on novice, because he's really good in every game he's in (that I've lurked / participated in, at least), and I'd rather get rid of a potentially very dangerous veteran than someone who... isn't. If he isn't a wolf, I imagine he'll be one of the first they'll kill anyway.

[Bobchillingworth]

So are we revealing our characters? Not a role claim, but a name claim?

I don't think anyone has to, but I also don't see any issue with it if you want to. I'm guessing that player's SMAC identities don't have any relation to whether they are village or wolf. In the FFH WW game, some "evil" FFH leaders were village, and one neutral guy was a wolf, while all the other wolves had secret identities they could claim. Plus I'm not sure you could call any of the SMAC people "evil" anyway, aside from maybe Yang.


That said, if we do have disguised Wolves in this game, maybe some are really the Alien factions? Could be a third party, along with the NAPs. So it could help the village if we have a lot of name claims, provided we have some way of actually confirming identities or at least catching contradictions.




Personally, I only gave my ID for flavor purposes.

[Lewwyn]

Pindicator, there can be only one.

[Bigger]

fyi, under the rules I edited in the info I previously revealed in the sign-up thread. This isn't anything new, but perhaps some people that signed up early didn't catch the late changes, or someone wasn't paying attention; I just wanted to make sure all players were on the same page.

[thestick]

Pointless starting vote on novice, because he's really good in every game he's in (that I've lurked / participated in, at least), and I'd rather get rid of a potentially very dangerous veteran than someone who... isn't. If he isn't a wolf, I imagine he'll be one of the first they'll kill anyway.

I know it's a pointless first vote and I shouldn't read too far into it, but we need to talk about something here. If he's a villager, then we should keep him alive, not kill him. Get the Doctor/Banner to protect him, and if the wolves come in, they waste a nightkill. If the wolves don't target him out of fear of being blocked, he stays alive and catches wolves. If he's a wolf, of course, lynch him, but we don't know anything yet.

[thestick]

thestick for failing to vote in first 3 posts. And for wondering about 12 packs when you know perfectly well there is only yours.

So, I'm a wolf for not joke voting on an actual player and faking stupidity?