arkham4269
Court Writer - Orbis Mod
Comment & Question
Comment: Finally got vers. 13 downloaded and everything is playing fine. In fact I noticed that when leaving a game (I play via Steam) that it shuts down much faster than say Orbis which practically locks my system up saving. However I notice that unless I bee-line almost nothing else but the techs necessary to found the Voice of Planet, some other Civ does.
That seems odd that:
A. The AI of a faction such as the Hive would research nothing but what gives them the VoP.
B. The AI goes that heavy along one track at all. I know different Civs/factions in most Mods tend to go for certain techs, but lately I've it seems in many mods that the AI will go for certain techs and completely ignore some pretty vital early techs. (So far I haven't played enough Planetfall to see if this is a big problem or not) I know it is good to get certain techs that unlock Wonders or a religion but it also seems that it can unbalance a Faction against someone like the Lord's Believers who like to spam flame-throwers and thus are often a significant early game threat.
Question: Is there any reason why one can't use the AC Special Project movies if one has them from the original game?
Comment: Finally got vers. 13 downloaded and everything is playing fine. In fact I noticed that when leaving a game (I play via Steam) that it shuts down much faster than say Orbis which practically locks my system up saving. However I notice that unless I bee-line almost nothing else but the techs necessary to found the Voice of Planet, some other Civ does.
That seems odd that:
A. The AI of a faction such as the Hive would research nothing but what gives them the VoP.
B. The AI goes that heavy along one track at all. I know different Civs/factions in most Mods tend to go for certain techs, but lately I've it seems in many mods that the AI will go for certain techs and completely ignore some pretty vital early techs. (So far I haven't played enough Planetfall to see if this is a big problem or not) I know it is good to get certain techs that unlock Wonders or a religion but it also seems that it can unbalance a Faction against someone like the Lord's Believers who like to spam flame-throwers and thus are often a significant early game threat.
Question: Is there any reason why one can't use the AC Special Project movies if one has them from the original game?
). Anything else would leave SMAC/AX ground and is therefore unlikely. But I think an even bigger problem is to come up with different "themes" for such new factions - just repeating or rearranging what is there devalues any addition. A part of the Add-On factions already slightly suffers from that problem (while Pirates, Drones and Angels are still pretty unique, the Consciousness is rather similar to the University, Cha Dawn is a more aggressive Deidre and the Aliens... H'minee might have potential for being something new, but Marr is at least technically another "green" player) 
would be a bad, bad thing.
. Of course the reason could be in theory that Fundi is still too weak (and Democracy too strong), but I doubt that. Fundamentalism has got a boost, Democracy has traded a very universal, early-to-use benefit for something which will pay out later (you often struggle to get one religion, means it will tak time to get a second) eventually. That should at least have had some impact. Attached are two saves (in the 2289er, end turn to see Miri switch into Demo) - I just suspect that the AIs somehow don't calculate the extra benefit of double state religion.
