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I recommend Pandora: First Contact. This is as scifi-as it gets, pretty much a sequel to Alpha Centauri. From a small time developer but still easily a better game than Beyond Earth. Watch out for the brutally difficult AI, though. wh63Zge7K5w

Pirates are the faction I'm least interested in and the one I have the least experience with. In fact, I've played only a single game with them and didn't even finish it. The Crossfire expansion for original SMAC was criticized for introducing factions that didn't have a strong ideological base...

I'm actively playing this at the moment (swapping a bit between this and Fall from Heaven, both superbly done). I can offer you some "dialogue", I believe I have the mod well figured out. The Hive is indeed very powerful, but I don't think necessarily overpowered. They have incredible...

Maniac, thanks for your response. However, as I'm sure you'll agree it's not particularly helpful as you seem to be just guessing yourself. There have been over 600 views of this thread. Nobody knows the exacts of how artillery duels work?!

I hope RT will be good. Owing to Firaxis' actions, however, I have every reason to expect it to be poor and I shall certainly not be purchasing RT unless I learn of an overwhelmingly positive response from reviewers and the community. Firaxis has created many valuable and important games over...

I hope the OP doesn't mind if I drop a few questions/ponderings of my own here rather than start a new, similar thread: 1) I've been playing the mod for a while now (thanks, Kael and team, this is brilliant!) but only recently realized how powerful the Calabim Governor's Manors really are. I...

Hi, greetings to SMACers still people playing this beyond exceptional mod (far and away better than professional offerings like Beyond Earth) in 2015. I have a question about the mechanics of the mod's artillery duel system: How exactly does it work? My impression was that if a stack...

You keep calling it a typo every time this is brought up yet the problem continues despite several patches having been put out (all of which have completely ignored this issue). It's amazingly bad that they don't fix this. Besides, I don't think 'typo' is quite accurate; note, for instance, how...

This kind of thought process could certainly explain design decisions such as the 'quest' system in BE where choosing one of two [badly balanced] options is considered a 'quest'. We've seen some great games from Firaxis over the years - the best games, in fact, there's basically nobody else...

Hi, I realize I'm late to the party but I just want to thank you, Captain Haddock ;), and your team, for having put this together. I'm amazed by the sheer creativity, consistent professionalism and intelligence of the design throughout. Simple put, top notch.

This one is annoying because it is so persistent so let me take the time to address it: Your assumption is a common mistake and a myth. Many players have drawn the conclusion that because each new city penalizes you, large empires are a bad idea. It appears very few have actually looked into...

Thing is, unless Firaxis shifts gears and suddenly gets serious as well as puts the development of BE 2.0 in the hands of some different people there is no reason whatsoever to expect anything good from a "super" patch. On the contrary, given the record, there's much more reason to expect a new...

1) Having read over the corruption guides, and understanding that the order in which one founds cities is very important, have I understood it correctly that any new city you found can never drive up the corruption costs of any previous cities? That is, the 'rank corruption' of my core cities...

This is true, and Civilization is very much a war game. That can even be said to be doubly true of BE where the relevance of diplomatic relations is completely absent - there's no reason not to kill your opponents, if you can. That is also the answer to your question, though: If you can. The...

Re-downloading to update to latest version, pleased to learn this is still being worked on. :) I noticed a few things in the changelogs that don't sit well with me - for instance, giving Hippodromes back two Artist slots is a huge mistake as the building is already far better than the...

This isn't even about Civ V, even the BTS AI is also pretty handicapped. The AI remains rather poor at handling siege units so it isn't great at attacking cities or dealing with large stacks. If you play on a difficulty level without massive AI bonuses the general picture is the AI will turtle...

Polystralia is supposed to get +2 trade routes in their capital. They still do, initially - but the patch having changed it so that more trade route slots unlock at certain city sizes (10, 21, 34) does not take the unique ability into account. This means Polystralia still only gets 3 routes...

Someone making sense. Thank you. I didn't even read the article posted in the original post because I can't stand listening to Miller and McDonough cooking up their lame excuses for 'why people aren't liking our game'. "We should have been more audacious..." and then at the same time the...

I would also suggest the descriptions should specifically state if it's a wonder, even with the coloring. The coloring doesn't help the color-impaired. The new patch doesn't address the various caption errors, and adds at least one new one: - There's still the whole "provides" and "yields"...

In Firaxis defense, in response to all the people talking about winning in just over 200 turns: You should realize that victories this fast are only possible because of the AI's shortcomings. If you simply beelined that Mindflower in a multiplayer session while neglecting defenses as usual, that...