Izmir Stinger
Deity
good! Alpha centauri is the stupidest game in the history of video games!
BLASPHEMY!
EDIT: Stupid filter not letting me use all caps.
good! Alpha centauri is the stupidest game in the history of video games!
yes. as long as there is profit, there is a solution.Perhaps if EA offered to sell it to them they might consider it... but I don't think they're going to pursue it. It's a shame really, because I really enjoyed that game.
Yes they can.camarilla:
It's simple really. Sid/Firaxis/2K DO NOT OWN ALPHA CENTAURI! EA owns Alpha Centauri. EA do NOT want to make SMAC2. Sid/Firaxis/2K CANNOT make SMAC2 without a massive legal battle. Call it anything, even "Space Colonization" but if it resembles SMAC in any way it is breach of copyright and will bring the EA lawyers to bare (see Call to Power legal battles for precedent). You will NOT see a SMAC2 unless EA buys Firaxis, or EA buys 2K, or 2K buys EA.
SIMPLE! It has nothing to do with economics.
camarilla:
It's simple really. Sid/Firaxis/2K DO NOT OWN ALPHA CENTAURI! EA owns Alpha Centauri. EA do NOT want to make SMAC2. Sid/Firaxis/2K CANNOT make SMAC2 without a massive legal battle. Call it anything, even "Space Colonization" but if it resembles SMAC in any way it is breach of copyright and will bring the EA lawyers to bare (see Call to Power legal battles for precedent). You will NOT see a SMAC2 unless EA buys Firaxis, or EA buys 2K, or 2K buys EA.
SIMPLE! It has nothing to do with economics.
I didn't like Sins either for same reasons. You should try Sword of the Stars. It has real time tactical combat, but the main game is turn based. A pretty good 4x space game. It just has the tendency to bog down towards the end when you play it on big maps and it puts more weight on multiplayer than I'd like.
But SMAC... Long have I wanted a sequel for that. Some balancing, better UI and tweaks and it'd be perfect. I guess it's just not as attractive brand as Civilization.
no it's all about economics. the problem here is that, alpha centauri isn't seen profittable. if it was believed to be sold much, we would already have it. so we need to raise our volume to call for alpha centauri2.
you still talk about names? here you go with 2 games with different "names".
ea shall make an Alpha Centauri2 and sid shall make a "Beta Centauri". ok?
alpha centauri2 cannot sell even 1mio copies. Beta centauri sells 5mio copies and ea lawyers cannot do anything, anything. they can only anger customers if they file anything.
so it is all economics. customers pay, customers rule. customers decide which game they will pay. and they will pick the version of Mr. Meier's. because it is the original one.
have you played larry in amiga? i assume it was larry, not sure about the name. the antagonist was trying to make love with many ladies in the game. the gfx of ladies resembled clearly one famous artist and their names in the game were so similar.
for ex: 1 of the ladies were called dewmi more, ok? you sleep with her in the game. and many more artists. any body could take anything after filing the game? no.
I'm in on a space mod, not necessarily on an Alpha Centauri mod. Why not start on Beta Centauri?When we get more information about Civ 5 it might be good to start a thread devoted to making an AC mod within it because there seem to be a lot of us who are interested in doing that.
please, we still mod , and ... don't say hat IV is on its way out.On the other hand, I'd wager most of us have no experience modding and we're not about to start modding Civ 4 now that it's on its way out.
If you're the traditional Scot, then you've probablyI still occasionaly play Ascendancy, and indeed AlphaC.
Damn it, there has to be some plus side to being old
Why not start on Beta Centauri?
Ascendancy was plagued with a 100% useless AI. Better off playing Stars!
If your looking for a good 4x space strategy game, Sins of a Solar Empire is good.