Jarek Noschese
Prince Gordon
Now that I’ve beaten the OCC on Citizen & Specialist Levels, I was wondering: would it really make a human player weak enough to never need to fight any super-bloated scale wars on harder difficulty levels? This guide assumes that we play with Intense Rivalry of Custom Rules turned off. (CPUs will always want the human players dead otherwise.)
Undoubtedly, we’ll need things like the Free Market Economy, Democracy, Knowledge Values, Eudaemonia and Cybernetic Future Laws now more than ever. RESEARCH and ECONOMY become more important too, as do things like EFFICIENCY & PLANET (sort of), INDUSTRY and GROWTH. If this truly works; then SUPPORT, POLICE, PROBE & MORALE truly are more worthless than they otherwise are supposed to be. Hopefully, it does work; since it would then show just how bad the CPUs can really be at waging wars against the humans.
Assuming that all of this is true; then Power Values, Theocracy, the Police State, and the Thought Control Far Future would become even more worthless than ever. The Wealth Values can be a good choice in some cases. Otherwise, it’s typically (kinda) risky, even more so if (either) the Spartans and/or the University are close by. The Green Economy would just become even more of a joke. The Planned Economy meanwhile, would only make more sense in perhaps the very late to end game.
Any thoughts? (Note: the rules I’ve initially instated, must still be followed with complete fidelity and responsibility. I’ve even chosen to ban scores achieved on a Windows OS that’s <7, due to how unsafe those systems have truly become. Any scores achieved that way, will automatically; be disqualified. I need proof therefore, that you’ve achieved it on an up-to-date OS. Send photos & videos if you can. Hardware specs would be nice to have as well. Virtualization is still allowed if (and only if) you obtain all of your software legally, but real hardware is recommended. If virtualization, then I’d really like to know the exact specs of all the software involved. (I.e. name, developer, version, exact method of installing/running the software, including SMAC itself & the host/guest hardware/OS specs, etc.)
I also want to know whether or not you have a “bought-and-paid-for” version of the guest OS emulating software in question, and if it’s applicable, then why.
Disclaimer: these rules are meant to expose and debunk/unmask cheaters and all of their possible attempts thereof. They aren’t in any way meant to discourage the honest people from attempting these kinds of feats. I only wish for a place; where gamers can thrive in a world where video/computer games are a means of escaping the world’s troubles, until as many of them as possible are completely fixed outright. If things were different, then I almost certainly wouldn’t write these kinds of posts; since it’s doubtful that I’d really need to ever do so, if that was truly the case.
Otherwise, my rules & reasonings are much the same as they were before. So what do you folks think about all this? Any potential strategies to adopt for this? If so, then how and why exactly? What’s the highest score (theoretically) possible under these rules? Have you managed to at least come close to achieving it (w/o Scenario Editing) yourself?
Undoubtedly, we’ll need things like the Free Market Economy, Democracy, Knowledge Values, Eudaemonia and Cybernetic Future Laws now more than ever. RESEARCH and ECONOMY become more important too, as do things like EFFICIENCY & PLANET (sort of), INDUSTRY and GROWTH. If this truly works; then SUPPORT, POLICE, PROBE & MORALE truly are more worthless than they otherwise are supposed to be. Hopefully, it does work; since it would then show just how bad the CPUs can really be at waging wars against the humans.
Assuming that all of this is true; then Power Values, Theocracy, the Police State, and the Thought Control Far Future would become even more worthless than ever. The Wealth Values can be a good choice in some cases. Otherwise, it’s typically (kinda) risky, even more so if (either) the Spartans and/or the University are close by. The Green Economy would just become even more of a joke. The Planned Economy meanwhile, would only make more sense in perhaps the very late to end game.
Any thoughts? (Note: the rules I’ve initially instated, must still be followed with complete fidelity and responsibility. I’ve even chosen to ban scores achieved on a Windows OS that’s <7, due to how unsafe those systems have truly become. Any scores achieved that way, will automatically; be disqualified. I need proof therefore, that you’ve achieved it on an up-to-date OS. Send photos & videos if you can. Hardware specs would be nice to have as well. Virtualization is still allowed if (and only if) you obtain all of your software legally, but real hardware is recommended. If virtualization, then I’d really like to know the exact specs of all the software involved. (I.e. name, developer, version, exact method of installing/running the software, including SMAC itself & the host/guest hardware/OS specs, etc.)
I also want to know whether or not you have a “bought-and-paid-for” version of the guest OS emulating software in question, and if it’s applicable, then why.
Disclaimer: these rules are meant to expose and debunk/unmask cheaters and all of their possible attempts thereof. They aren’t in any way meant to discourage the honest people from attempting these kinds of feats. I only wish for a place; where gamers can thrive in a world where video/computer games are a means of escaping the world’s troubles, until as many of them as possible are completely fixed outright. If things were different, then I almost certainly wouldn’t write these kinds of posts; since it’s doubtful that I’d really need to ever do so, if that was truly the case.
Otherwise, my rules & reasonings are much the same as they were before. So what do you folks think about all this? Any potential strategies to adopt for this? If so, then how and why exactly? What’s the highest score (theoretically) possible under these rules? Have you managed to at least come close to achieving it (w/o Scenario Editing) yourself?
