anyone ever tried to make an ALPHA CENTAURI mod?

[moni]

Has anyone ever tried to make a mod based on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire games? I've tried to make such a mod but only as a casual or recreational activity, knowing that the present editor can't capture the essence of the game. But with the Conquests editor, who knows what may happen?

Can you guys enlighten me if there is any such project happening? Or just post if you're a hardcore SMAC fan and has fantasized of making a SMAC mod for Civ3, and state general or specific examples of how you'll make the components of the mod. I'll post my thoughts on my dream SMAC mod soon.

 

[Amenhotep7]

OMG!
I loooove SMAC!
One of the best games ever! Of course, Civ3 doesn't capture the essence of the game...But it'd probably be very hard...
Terrain types:
Ocean
Sea
Coast
Centauri Earth
Native Plant Life (Smac does show a few green plants that weren't placed by humans...)
Xenofungus

Units:
Wild Mindworms (I dunno how you'd make it go from larva to demon boil...)
Mindworms
Various Infantry/Hovertank/Rover/Copter/Airplane with different weapons...

Conversion of SMAC map

Cool animated leaderheads of the faction leaders! [dance]

I'll help out in any way...

 

[Yoda Power]

There was some talk about it a long time ago, but noone ever startet making it. Actually it would be fairly easy, since the tech tree, unit stats etc is already in the original game.

 

[Amenhotep7]

Yeah, but the very cool animated leaderheads might be hard...

 

[Yoda Power]

Originally posted by Amenhotep7
Yeah, but the very cool animated leaderheads might be hard...

Actually I think the good old static SMAC heads would give a better feel.

 

[Amenhotep7]

Hmmm...Yeah, but I'd like to know what Zak and ESPECIALLY Santiago would look like when she's happy...If it's possible...

So now that we have confirmed that an SMAC mod would be very cool, why not start recruiting? I say we go for it! I'd handle the text part...

 

[Yoda Power]

I would be a non-active supporter because I really dont have the time, but if a team is formed I might pop in from time to time

 

[Amenhotep7]

Okaaayyy....Would anyone wanna help? I'm doing text, so if anyone wants to handle the map, terrain, units, and leaderheads...So anyone interested?

 

[moni]

I might just start a SMAC mod project, but I can only probably start it January or February next year. I'll have to see what the Conquests editor can do, and of course play the Conquests scenarios!

 

[Amenhotep7]

Hmmmmm....No takers? moni can help, but not recently...Ah well...Post here if ur seriously interested...

 

[Pfeffersack]

I am also a great fan of SMAC and the expansion and since Civ3 is out, I play with the idea of a mod.Sure, the editor has still a lot of restrictions and there are some (important) differences, which will stay.But there are also a lot of possibilities to change things...and I am currently working on a AC mod.I am still at the beginning and my limited skills in dealing with graphics. etc will prevent me from doing (graphical) wonders (which means at the end it will be still a funny mix of civ art and some AC gameplay), but I think its worth trying.

I will post a first beta ASAP in the "Completed-Modpacks"-Forum.