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Jose posted:i never used them because i didn't understand what they did as a kid Once you understand how the game works, and more importantlythe ai's blindspot the game invariably becomes trivial. That's why civ is always more fun to play with friends on multiplayer
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 20:51 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 15:02 |
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I mean, it's not like SMAC is a super hard game even without abusing the gently caress out of crawlers. You just need a basic undestanding of how to play to your faction's strengths.
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 21:07 |
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Prav posted:suboptimal. unacceptable. Typo posted:inefficient and pointless by the time you get it I suppose the earliest remedy is supply crawlers on mines and boreholes. Or you could make your own faction that starts off with that tech and has clean reactors on everything by default.
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:00 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:I mean, it's not like SMAC is a super hard game even without abusing the gently caress out of crawlers. You just need a basic undestanding of how to play to your faction's strengths. well that and genocide miriam asap
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:01 |
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The game is supposed to stop you from building submarine aircraft carriers but I still managed to do it one time by just loving with the unit prototype interface till it broke.
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:03 |
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Jose posted:i never used them because i didn't understand what they did as a kid free population basically that let's you "mine" squares anywhere on the map it completely breaks how cities work in civ
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:09 |
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Jose posted:well that and genocide miriam asap Well, yeah, but that's mostly because she's super annoying.
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:37 |
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miriam was right
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:45 |
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Prav posted:miriam was right
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:58 |
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What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:04 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction? ELITE CHRISTIAN HACKERS
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:11 |
gradenko_2000 posted:What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction? also cheap probe actions/good probe defence if you're into that
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:12 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction? heathen popery
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:14 |
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lol i forgot that her last name is godwinson
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:18 |
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Seriously, Miriam gets disgustingly good probes which basically nullifies her only weakness. Doesn't even matter that your labs are hot garbage, just find Zak and probe his pasty nerd rear end for all the tech you could ever want.
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:24 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction? early conquests+probe teams
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:27 |
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Concordat posted:The game is supposed to stop you from building submarine aircraft carriers but I still managed to do it one time by just loving with the unit prototype interface till it broke. Typo posted:early conquests+probe teams + a homicidal ai personality
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:33 |
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Think I'm going to reinstall it this weekend. I bought the GoG version years ago but never really got into it. How well does it work on new monitors?
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:44 |
Dreddout posted:I'm if you spend enough to loving around with that blasted UI you deserve whatever advantage you can get
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:45 |
Jose posted:Think I'm going to reinstall it this weekend. I bought the GoG version years ago but never really got into it. How well does it work on new monitors?
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:45 |
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Any mods that help with that or is that a waste of time?
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:48 |
Jose posted:Any mods that help with that or is that a waste of time?
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:51 |
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how is there not a smac thread in games
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:52 |
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smacs a nice game but god that interface
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:55 |
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there's this tho courtesy of the yospos pbem gamecheese-cube posted:also smac pro-tip that im sure i've posted before: add DirectDraw=0 to Alpha Centauri.Ini in the game's install folder like below. that makes it display/scale properly on today's modern computer systems (your screen will bug the gently caress out though when it plays the secret project vids that in 640x480): anthonypants posted:also i would like to suggest adding 'DisableOpeningMovie=1' to this list
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:55 |
Just fired it up myself and wiped out Morgan with some X Laser Squads as Miriam. 10 year sanctions don't mean much in the mid 22nd century!
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 01:10 |
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just fire up Civilization III and plop a mine on every tile
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 01:19 |
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so i don't think anyone mentioned the fan patches yet. there's one called PRACX that has a ton of graphical fixes and tweaks, like you can make the window resizable, there's smoother zooming, new display modes on the map, etc. but you probably don't want to install PRACX alone because it's also integrated into another patch that fixes a bunch of bugs and prevents some crashes. also there's some minor conveniences like bases auto-building satellites if they don't have anything in the queue like they do for units to install it, go here, get "Yitzi's Unofficial SMAX patch 3.5", unzip it into your smax directory, then get 3.5d and do the same thing. works with the version GoG sells on both windows and mac there's another older patch by a guy called kyrub that was an attempt to improve the AI. it basically teaches it how to use crawlers and properly terraform. i wouldn't say it makes the AI "challenging" but it does make a noticeable difference, they'll build tree farms and plant forests, crawl mines, and even build boreholes. sadly it doesnt work with SMAX, only the original game
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 01:21 |
Tiny Bug Child posted:there's another older patch by a guy called kyrub that was an attempt to improve the AI. it basically teaches it how to use crawlers and properly terraform. i wouldn't say it makes the AI "challenging" but it does make a noticeable difference, they'll build tree farms and plant forests, crawl mines, and even build boreholes. sadly it doesnt work with SMAX, only the original game
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 01:23 |
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smax adds a bunch of extremely overpowered wonders
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 05:21 |
https://twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/status/925214321772183552
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 06:50 |
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When they think you are Yang but you're really Morgan
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 08:10 |
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 09:19 |
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Communism with Chinese characteristics
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 10:57 |
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China is a communist ploy to destroy capitalism by pretending to be state capitalist and then subsequently crashing the global economy
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 11:23 |
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Chinese with communist characteristics
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 11:31 |
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After seeing those graphs it's obvious that China needs a communist revolution of some sort
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 11:32 |
Typo posted:smax adds a bunch of extremely overpowered wonders
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 14:12 |
The old rope-a-dope! Float like a butterfly, sting like a Xi.
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 17:23 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 15:02 |
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I always went max forests when terraforming and rushed tree farms / hybrid forests, which with a pop boom will cause you to grow completely out of control, limited only by psych / drone riots. Since you get good production to you can build a few factories in the late game to get insane production as well Last time I played I rush bought the final ascent to transcendence on the same turn that 100+ worms popped on a nearby tile due to environmental degradation
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# ? Oct 31, 2017 17:37 |