[Asia/Oceania] cars are cheap in the orient

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Dreddout: Oct 1, 2015; You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Jose posted:

i never used them because i didn't understand what they did as a kid

Coincidentally, this is when civ/4x/gs games are the most fun

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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Cerebral Bore: Apr 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

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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Concordat: Mar 4, 2007; Secondary Objective: Commit Fraud - Complete

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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Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

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

# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:01

Concordat: Mar 4, 2007; Secondary Objective: Commit Fraud - Complete

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.

# ? Oct 30, 2017 23:03

Typo: Aug 19, 2009; Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

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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Cerebral Bore: Apr 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

Jose posted:

well that and genocide miriam asap

Well, yeah, but that's mostly because she's super annoying.

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Prav: Oct 29, 2011

miriam was right

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StashAugustine: Mar 24, 2013; Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Prav posted:

miriam was right

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gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?

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Cerebral Bore: Apr 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

gradenko_2000 posted:

What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?

ELITE CHRISTIAN HACKERS

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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

gradenko_2000 posted:

What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?

free units + 25% bonus attack strength

also cheap probe actions/good probe defence if you're into that

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Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

gradenko_2000 posted:

What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?

heathen popery

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H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

lol i forgot that her last name is godwinson

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Cerebral Bore: Apr 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

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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Typo: Aug 19, 2009; Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

gradenko_2000 posted:

What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?

early conquests+probe teams

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Dreddout: Oct 1, 2015; You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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.

I'm if you spend enough to loving around with that blasted UI you deserve whatever advantage you can get

Typo posted:

early conquests+probe teams

+ a homicidal ai personality

# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:33

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

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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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Dreddout posted:

I'm if you spend enough to loving around with that blasted UI you deserve whatever advantage you can get

I'm the surprisingly not removed in patches 10 mineral trance scout team which will defend any base from worms forever.

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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

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?

Works fine, just looks slightly worse than it did in the past.

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Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Any mods that help with that or is that a waste of time?

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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

Any mods that help with that or is that a waste of time?

If it's not working at all, you need to change the ini to include directdraw=0 and then manually set the resolution, but I don't think anyone ever made a "proper" widescreen mod.

# ? Oct 31, 2017 00:51

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

how is there not a smac thread in games

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Bulgogi Hoagie: Jun 1, 2012; We

smacs a nice game but god that interface

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H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

there's this tho courtesy of the yospos pbem game

cheese-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):
[PREFERENCES] ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 [Alpha Centauri] DirectDraw=0 ds3d=1 eax=1

anthonypants posted:

also i would like to suggest adding 'DisableOpeningMovie=1' to this list

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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

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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Victory Position: Mar 16, 2004

just fire up Civilization III and plop a mine on every tile

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Tiny Bug Child: Sep 11, 2004; Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

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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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

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

SMAX added nothing of value other than fungal artillery so that's okay, imo.

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Typo: Aug 19, 2009; Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

smax adds a bunch of extremely overpowered wonders

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Ruzihm: Aug 11, 2010; Group up and push mid, proletariat!

https://twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/status/925214321772183552

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Wutang might be dangerous

Ruzihm posted:

https://twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/status/925214321772183552

When they think you are Yang but you're really Morgan

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Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

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Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Communism with Chinese characteristics

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Significant Ant: Jun 14, 2017; by R. Guyovich

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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Mayor Dave: Feb 20, 2009; Bernie the Snow Clown

Chinese with communist characteristics

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Teikanmi: Dec 16, 2006; by R. Guyovich

After seeing those graphs it's obvious that China needs a communist revolution of some sort

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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Typo posted:

smax adds a bunch of extremely overpowered wonders

Also stuff like 3-res armour on the extremely-good-for-builders tech path of Formers/Aquafarms into 1-3r-1.

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Wheeee: Mar 11, 2001; When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

The old rope-a-dope!

Float like a butterfly, sting like a Xi.

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Feldegast42: Oct 29, 2011; COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

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 :shepface:

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