6/16 Mercury News Article

[Eagle Pursuit]

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/20...vilizaton-beyond-earth-surprisingly-familiar/

Nothing much new here, although they do call the workers Harvesters.

 

[Fabio1701]

that's just weird. This isn't Dune! It's not like you can't get the nutrients form your farm unless there is a "Harvester" on it. And what is the "harvester"doing building roads and terraforming?

 

[NASAROG]

The spice must flow....

 

[bhavv]

Well in SMAC they had terraformers not workers. It was also the first game in the series that had such a worker unit.

 

[Lord Tirian]

Well in SMAC they had terraformers not workers. It was also the first game in the series that had such a worker unit.

Dedicated worker unit. Before that, settlers and workers were the same thing.

 

[AriochIV]

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/20...vilizaton-beyond-earth-surprisingly-familiar/

Nothing much new here, although they do call the workers Harvesters.

I live in San Jose where the Mercury News is the local paper. Place no importance on anything they say.

The unit was called "Worker" in the E3 gameplay video.

 

[reddishrecue]

The harvester does sound like a SMAC worker unit..

 

[3of5]

The harvester does sound like a SMAC worker unit..

that would be the "former".

Harvester is a Master of Orion 3 species. that. i. loved. to. hate.
I mean really? A parasitic species that takes over every planet one single exemplar slips though the immigration bioscreening and the only way to get rid of it is to glass it over by orbital bombardement? Whose idea was that?