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[IHateOutside]

Hmm my copy of SMAC says I can only play online using LAN. I know for one I would struggle to play by email because I'm so god damn lazy.

[Wooty]

A bump! Guess that means I have to update now.

[zchris13]

A bump! Guess that means I have to update now.

Thirded.

[Rysith]

Hmm my copy of SMAC says I can only play online using LAN. I know for one I would struggle to play by email because I'm so god damn lazy.

If you can gather seven people into the same place (say, because you're at college), it makes a great multiplayer game, especially if you've got a nice long weekend to play the game through to completion (Turn simultaneous turns on! It helps!). PBEM doesn't work so well, since you end up taking about one turn a week (and, with the average game lasting a few hundred turns...), but it used to be all you had.

And Devath, you can do that in the regular version, too, if you don't mind editing a few text files. We used to play the equivalent of Civ IV's "quick" setting (units and pop cost 70% normal, terraforming a bit faster), with some changes to the factions to deal with the way that that changed the game dynamics.

[Jackrabbit]

Tum te tum.

[zchris13]

seconded.

[Wimdit]

I can't believe people are still posting here.

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Few ways of kicking off an update are better than taking to the skies in futuristic jet fighters.


Another mustard seed to the pile of knowledge.


Because sticking computers in people's brains is always a good idea. After all, what could go wrong?


Ye gods. So, I herd you liek air superiority.


Why do they insult me every time they call? The other faction leaders are not very good at diplomacy, apparently.




Arghlblargh.

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Boom.


Oldbeard has had an idea regarding the movement of colonists. I want no part in this.


I fail to see how this is impressive. We built the first supercollider over three hundred years ago. However, my scientists assure me that it will double the speed at which that base is able to research things somehow.



Well, it looks like Morgan isn't that useless after all. Incidentally, economic victory is now allowed.


But I'll be damned if I'm going to save that much cash.


Nice. You are aware that your faction is ludicrously weak compared to the Gaians and that any attempt to land troops on her territory would be completely futile?


Ha ha you got a hideous population-destroying virus.

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Cyborgs ahoy! I don't see any way this could possibly go wrong.


This base is inconvenient.


Hooray for aliens!


Whee!


Generally not the thing to try when you're on the defensive. You're supposed to crush the sizeable yet unsupported invasion force, then use the leverage gained from that to start bargaining.


Uh. I'm not even going to say anything about this one.


Ahahaha. Clearly this is proof that my people are superior and can overcome any odds. Or that they're just really lucky.


Oh. Right. I can't believe I forgot about that. Although, what's that Believing unit doing there in the first place?

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The sun gods are angry! Thankfully their anger only fuels our solar collectors.


Eighty-five energy in a single turn, and this from only one base. Although much of it is from the borehole. Why is that helped by solar flares? And why are rivers helped as well? Forests... maybe if it makes the trees grow really quickly, but they'd have to be pretty weird trees to do that because of giant solar flares.


Ha ha Morgan. I took your old base.


What! Mag tube! That requires...


Damn, I don't even have the prerequisite techs. Why is he so far ahead of me?


Bubbles!


Looks like Russia has again taken the title of 'first nation in space.' Need to get a satellite up so that I can see the rest of the map.


According to Werner Von Braun, science is like a knife. If you give it to surgeon or a murderer...


Each will use it differently. For the uninitiated, planet busters devastate the landscape in an area determined by their reactor's power. For the higher orders of planet busters... let's just say that they leave bays where there used to be mountains. Their use is considered so heinous a crime that every faction will immediately pronounce vendetta upon you if you use one... unless atrocity restrictions have been lifted. Heh.

The trouble is that they are so darn expensive to build. My current economy won't be able to build enough of them this side of eternity, so I'll have to get some boreholes going.

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I had hoped to save this name for a base even closer to one of the poles, but I can't find much land down there. This will have to do.


Oldbeard's new colony pod design makes a spectacular crash landing, and the occupants somehow survive. Huh.


Blah blah.


TACHYON BOLT WHAT. He has unified field theory as well? How is he so far ahead? Damn, I need probe teams. By the way, that X means nerve gas pods - significant attack bonus, but using them is an atrocity. Oh well. I took the base anyway. My chaos guns are still mostly enough to get past his silksteel armour.


Ah, I see. He's so far ahead because he has magma.


This might be a good idea. It'll be easier for my probe teams to get in, and this base is completely unsupported - it will probably be retaken before I can send reinforcements. Plus it's probably better if I'm not at war with everyone.


Just about ready to attack Morgan.


Oh, I pronounced vendetta on Miriam. Didn't I mention that? Incidentally, I like how your air units automatically scramble and attack enemy air units in your territory.

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'You have little use for me.' You were using me? I fail to see how that works, since you were basically my vassal.


Doot-doot-doot-doot doooOOOooo... Civ IV's 'declare war' noise is pretty good, don't you agree?


I really like how the AI doesn't adjust for the HSA. It's very satisfying to see probe teams hurling themselves against your networks and getting their brains pulled out of their heads by a mysterious entity lurking in the darkness.



Nar har har. Movie.


Nah. I want the whole island. Incidentally, refusing a surrender offer apparently pushes a faction leader over the brink. They'll call just to yell at you after you seize a base, they'll ignore all your transmissions, and they'll never offer peace again.

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Ooh scary.




Hm. I guess they know I've gotten Oldbeard to start working on a Planet Buster prototype? I won't be able to push a reversal of this through the council anytime soon, so it's time to rig this vote. Lal and Santiago accept my tiny bribes, but Deirdre, Miriam and Morgan won't talk to me. Guess I should have accepted his surrender.

For is it not written, 'Hindsight is always 20/20'?


Yang knows the value of his vote.


Just barely enough. Good thing that the status quo is king when the vote is ambiguous. And it's a good thing that I always vote last and apparently see the votes before anyone else can.


Like I said, we'll need to wait until the other side of eternity for them at this stage.

Whew. That took a while, but this LP is back on the rails.

[Christes]

And it's back on!

I hope the next one comes sooner

[zchris13]

EPIC.  Do we really need planet busters that much?

[Christes]

Yes.  We need to make big explosions.

(God, I remember the first time I used a planet buster with a maxed out reactor.  That was quite a suprise.)

[zchris13]

Boom?

[Heron TSG]

Instead of lots of little ones, why not just get an ULTIMATE WEAPON?

[zchris13]

Cluster bombs are fun, though...

[andrea]

research toward the biggest reactor you can, build a planet buster with it, launch on Deirdre. if it happens to make a lake where mountains used to be, better.

[Rysith]

Prototype planetbusters are like secret projects, though. If you've got a higher-production base lying around, use that, since the others will be 2/3rds the price. I think having planetbusters also makes the AI rate your military strength much higher.

If you can, rush to orbital defense pods and keep everyone else out of space.

Oh, and probe Yang.