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It would be great if someone could combine something like this with leaders from Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars trilogy (which was a major source for SMAC by the way). Like; Arkady: Philosophical and Aggressive, Nadia: Industrious and Expansive, John: Creative, Financial. I'm sure better...

Ok, a lot of the choices being spouted are just silly. Sure, everyone would like to see their own land represented but that what mods are for. The official game should pick civilisations of -global- historical importance. To start with, Sumer or Babylon has to be in. I mean it has to. The...

Sure, Golden Ages are underpowered, but how anyone could pass them up in the late game I don't understand. Once I'm into the industrial era I try to get one, because by then the amount of cities i have makes it much more worthwhile, while the lack of time left makes the super specialists...

Sister Miriam...oh god. The bile would rise in my throat when I saw her. Yeh, SMAC's characterisation was far more effective than Civ, and that was without the advantage of all the historical details Civ can draw on for their leaders.

I successfully used them in an archipelago map once to defend against galleys landing troops, and to provide excellent protection for my fish resources. I had them spaced out, so when an enemy ship got too close, the ironclads would close in on it like a pincer, I usually managed to catch even...

I would like to put in a bid for Kublai Khan. I think creative is my favourite warmongering trait, because the ability to rapidly expand the borders of just conquered cities makes them productive again much much faster than they would otherwise be. Caesar is probably better overall though.

I've had him as a friend once. In a monarch game, I was going for domination and he was quite a way away so I made him my ally. A shared religion, we went to war together, I gave him tribute once I think. It was a very successful partnership. But I would never try to befriend him if I shared a...

I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that random personalities don't effect traits at all, and they dont'; effect you at all. They change the weighting the AI gives to different options, which you can see by examining the game code. For example, normally Tokugawa is xenophobic, Isabella is a...

I've always thought that the CIv games put too much emphasis on warfare. For me, the series has only gotten better as other strategies have slowly become more viable. I sort of role-play my games, and unless I'm playing someone like Alexander the Great, I always felt guilty about fighting wars...

I would say that SMAC is just a better game, period. They're both good, and I like to alternate between Civ games and Alpha Centauri games, but I think that gameplay wise SMAC is better. For me, the main drawback is the drabness. It's refreshing at first to see a truly alien alien world, but...

I've been a bit disappointed with the Civ AI, especially that of military geniuses like Napoleon who can't manage the basics of combined arms half the time in the game, but a recent game had a just amazingly bad problem. I accidently sailed an unguarded galleon through enemy cultural waters when...

I play the Earth scenario a fair bit, about five times now, and every time Alexander the Great has come last. He doesn't expand fast enough and so his little greek pennisula is walled in by Rome or someone. Does this happen inevitably, or has he just had bad luck in my games? Perhaps the...