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Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

Are you happy now?
Post the best quotes. I can't think of a 4X game before or afterwards that had such good writing and characters. Star Control II dosn't count as it's a RPG.

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Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

Are you happy now?
So CBE is pretty disappointing, so I rebought SMACX through gog.com. I haven't played it for 5-10 years.

After 15 years, what's the best way (starting settings, or anything else) to play the game? Blind research sounds good now. Does Ironman change anything beyond you can't save without exiting? What's the most entertaining 8 factions to use with SMAX? Random world, or Large Planet map?

Comstar fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Oct 28, 2014

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

Are you happy now?

Glidergun posted:

Eh, open-source and the Web were just getting big at the time. None of the SMAX factions get a whole lot of quotes, but you can see some of that excitement over new kinds of societies and "information wants to be free" floating around the Data Angels.

Data Angels are a faction that was designed for Edward Snowden and Julian Assange 10 years ahead of their time.

In an alternate universe they became who they are after playing SMAX and Brian Reynolds is on homeland security watchlist.

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