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That is for a builder game. If you start next to Miriam, Yang, or Santiago you have to adjust. It is worse if you start near aliens. I usually beeline to Nonlinear Mathematics with my tech advantage with Zak. Impact weapons are a huge advantage early game. I do agree with Petek about Centuari...

It would not be the first time a gaming site got hacked. Sucks for the admin since he will now have to probably fax IDs to whatever hosting company to prove it is him/her. Then, the admin can see what damage is done. Who knows, maybe they hacked off some gamer who has a black belt in hack fu...

I will admit there are some techs on the SMAX tree that are not exciting. While they are prereqs for other things, they just do not "give" you anything cool. Yes, Prog Psych is definitely one of them. The aquafarms are ony good if you are aquatic. I personally think Optical Computers is...

CFC always was the place for good Civ4/5 ones. Never seen one for AC on here...

You guys know that the Unity Chopper also has a SAM ability. It can, ironically, ruin a needlejets day.

Lately, there has been an explosion of AARs for Alpha Centauri. Just like the story threads on CFC for all the various Civ iterations, some of these are quite good. Others are mediocre, and still others are on the level of epic. If you do not have time to sit and watch a 2 hour video on...

I have discovered a custom faction that I found off the old Network Node archive project that was put up months back over on AC2. It is so fun, it appears in every other game. It is called the Antimind. This monster is a prog faction. The shtick is it was a mindworm, cyborg, and prog gene...

Yay! It is very surprising. But the things the folks in the AC community lately really has been coming out with groundbreaking stuff. I compare it to some of the same things that have been going on for years for another 4x game, Age of Wonders. That game even has THE developer recommending...

Sandbox in these terms mean you can use any approach you want to achieve any victory you want (or defeat... if you do poorly or are unlucky). Even other 4x games like Civ V and Fallen Enchantress are sandbox games.

Come on, lol. You got to have some insane Miriam and Yang action. AC just is not AC without those orange and blue locusts trying to end your day. Also... abundant lifeforms!

One of the beauties of a sandbox is you should be able to use any approach you please.

Better units brings an interesting point as far as AI. Now, I know you can go into alpha(x).txt and alter unit builds for the AI. However, there is one game out there that has changed my thinking on this for possible modders or a future sequel. Stardock's Fallen Enchantress analyzes your...

The problems go beyond aviation even into aerospace and low earth orbit. I still have never seen any 4x game handle sattilites or sattelite warfare right. At the point you are getting advanced aircraft and missiles capable of delivering payloads across continents, you should at least be able to...

FE is not quite that complex. the diplo is passable, but not on that order of grandness that all us 4x fans crave. That said, the original War of Magic which was Fallen Enchantress' buggy predecessor had a lineage system where your leader could have kids and they became units in the game and...

My, frogboy makes an appearance and announces plans for an expansion to Fallen Enchantress. How about that? Fallen Enchantress with the patches is a very good experience, particularly early game. The closest game that comes close to the tenseness of the early game is Alpha Centauri (1999)...

You need formers ASAP then you need to spit out colony pods as fast as safely possible without feeding the mindworms while having at least enough scout patrols/ synthmetal sentinels to pop any pods AND gard bases and repond to any native threat. Everything else is situational. The thing about...

It would not be SMAX without some Yang backstabbing action. Miriam is just as bad.

I hear you. But, you got to agree the Civ 4 air system is more balanced by treating air attacks like artillery. The "mission" system is just one of those quality of life things. Civ 4, though, is still a complex and good game at it's core and any remake of SMAC could benefit from adopting at...

If you use Kyrub's AI patch, the AI is a bit better. That said, there have been many approaches to dealing with air power. One famous approach was Chuft's on WPC that limited the range on air. Not a big fan of that one. My solution would be to handle airpower the way Civ 4 does using...

There is a 1/32 chance of a monolith disappearing if you use it to upgrade morale. I am not 100 percent sure, but I think you can repair all you want.