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[Shadowlord]

Meanwhile, I was playing around with Alien Crossfire's faction designer, and realized I was basically making the Human Hive by a different name.  I'm not sure what that says about me.

There's a bit of Yang in everyone.

No, no, we must dissent!

[Imperial Guardsman]

Meanwhile, I was playing around with Alien Crossfire's faction designer, and realized I was basically making the Human Hive by a different name.  I'm not sure what that says about me.

There's a bit of Yang in everyone.

No, no, we must dissent!

No, no, we must bring vision and hearing to the blind eyes and deaf ears of men!

[Guardian G.I.]

Am I the only one here whose favourite faction is Zakharov's University of Planet?

[10ebbor10]

Not really.

[Delta Foxtrot]

It's pretty popular as far as gameplay is concerned. People seem to have a thing for getting ALL the techs.

[DreamThorn]

I was actually expecting them to anounce XCOM: Enemy Beyond.  At least I got one word right.

I am way more excited for Civ: Beyond Earth than I would have been for the above, though!

My take on 1UPT:  It's like having tactical battles without having a separate tactical battle screen to break the flow. (A good thing.)

EDIT: In SMAC I always played Gaia.  They're pretty good at teching up (and MINDWORMS!)

MOAR EDIT: Fixed the typo

[Sharp]

Murderous hippies!

As a factions though Gaians are the strongest because they can grow their population pretty quickly and can set mindworms on their enemies without any ramifications. That's only for players though, singleplayer any faction can do well vs the computer but University is normally a solid choice to get the huge tech advantage and then kill hordes of enemy units with only a few units.

[MonkeyHead]

PTFing so very hard.

[10ebbor10]

Anyway, I hope they make their factions a bit more nuanced than in say Pandora. Especially with the trends in gaming, or everything really, to go for a really black and white look.

The interesting thing about Alpha Centauri was that every faction had something good (and numerous bad things) going for it.

[MonkeyHead]

... and as long as they are true factions with idealogical differences too, and not some shit broad brush nationalistic sterotypes - I mean, a shallowly disguised "spacemerican capitalists", clichéd spacecommies, some kind of eurocrat or asian technogeeks  would really disappoint me here.

[Isdar]

... and as long as they are true factions with idealogical differences too, and not some shit broad brush nationalistic sterotypes - I mean, a shallowly disguised "spacemerican capitalists", clichéd spacecommies, some kind of eurocrat or asian technogeeks  would really disappoint me here.

You are expecting to much.

[Mr. Strange]

... and as long as they are true factions with idealogical differences too, and not some shit broad brush nationalistic sterotypes - I mean, a shallowly disguised "spacemerican capitalists", clichéd spacecommies, some kind of eurocrat or asian technogeeks  would really disappoint me here.

You are expecting to much.

And it's still the minimum standards for any game I would buy... I don't think I will buy many games in near future.

[MonkeyHead]

... and as long as they are true factions with idealogical differences too, and not some shit broad brush nationalistic sterotypes - I mean, a shallowly disguised "spacemerican capitalists", clichéd spacecommies, some kind of eurocrat or asian technogeeks  would really disappoint me here.

You are expecting to much.

Why? The original AC managed it just great.

[puke]

And it was so unique that we're still talking about it now.

[Mephansteras]

Well, if we're lucky Sid will insist that that aspect be kept for this game. It's still his game, in the end, regardless of the name.