Recent content by xerkon

Yeah, I never use the governor either. But it was tempting when I saw that I could turn on the governor and use the advanced options to keep him/her from doing anything except manage citizens/drone riots. It's too bad that doesn't work correctly because it would certainly relieve some of the...

I did my spreadsheet in openoffice so you might need that to open it. Or you could try changing the file extension to .xls. I don't know if excel would open it properly or not. However, Nethog's Tree is quite a bit more advanced than mine. It's pretty sweet! Kind of makes me wish I would...

I don't know if anyone besides me will find this useful but it took a while to make so why not share it just in case. It's an open office calc document. I'm not sure if Excel will open it or not. The arrows to the right (in the document) point to the techs that a given tech leads to and...

Thanks. I'll keep thinking about it but I'm not an expert on the inner workings of the game at all and I've only been into the Scenario editor once or twice. It's frustrating because handling the riots yourself immediately switches off the governor option to handle them. And then turning the...

The document is an OpenOffice Calc document. Open Office is a free download http://download.openoffice.org/ If you have that the document will open correctly (it did for me, at least.)

Hmmm...I never noticed the population hit. I'll have to keep an eye on that in future turns. Well, it's nice to know this is something that happens to everyone and it's not just my game. It's still strange though. It seems like you have to be working on a pressure dome at the time the...

So my computer opponents decided to raise sea levels and I couldn't stop them. I found all my endangered bases and started them on pressure domes. Suddenly sea levels rose and said, "OH No!" But then when I looked, the bases that should have been lost had magically finished their pressure...

I think on lower difficulty levels building a colony pod won't reduce the population below 1, but on the higher one's it will, which is maybe why Grump did it and you can't. Maybe. It seems like I read somewhere that you can't reduce pop to below 1 with a colony pod unless difficulty level is...

Thanks for the replies. @Renesslaer - clicking on the center square in the base screen is something that has to be done to maximize production even if one is years away from drone riots. I might have a base that's just been built and is 15 turns from creating a new citizen. Meanwhile my...

I made the mistake of accepting Miriam's surrender instead of wiping her out. I ended up breaking the pact and taking the hit in my integrity rating. It was worth it to wipe her off the face of the earth. Do factions swear a pact to serve you before you've almost wiped them out? If you've...

Right now on the standard map of planet I have 43 bases. I'm on year 2310. As Elliot said, lots of bases = long turns. I think it kind of depends on how you like to play the game. If you're just looking for a quick victory then you'll be capturing bases a lot so you don't have to build many.

Hi everyone! I've been playing SMAC on and off ever since it was released. It's a wonderful game. I'm usually a little verbose so I'll try to state my problem as briefly as possible. Has my intent to be succinct already failed due to me taking a couple of sentences to tell you about it? :(...