I've become a drug addict. (SMAC)

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. I start to get the itches being away from the computer for more than 4 hours. I have researched articles online about the best techniques "like sitting positions, and recommended foods to consume while playing Alpha Centauri", and decided to go splurge a large amount of my savings on the entire Dune paperback collection. In my dreams I see my life as a tech-tree and procure different technologies and ideologies to help me further my social life that is eroding. I have constructed a playlist on Winamp solely to play while on Alpha Centauri consisting of King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, The Flaming Lips, and Tool. Over the last month, I completely read my old "Introduction to Philosophy" textbook just for some sort of mental orgasm to relate to the sociological content of Alpha Centauri. I've had nightmares that involve my dead father being consumed by Mindworms that looked like my ex-girlfriend. I have caught myself mid-conversation with others emulating the speech of Prokhor Zakharov. I have gained 5lbs over the past 2 months from playing.


And I still cannot get enough. Ohh god, please someone help me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lva8L-J8x04&NR=1[/youtube]





Ohh, and any other games like this besides the ghey civilizations which don't have advanced themes of scifi, or violent and graphic contexts toward the human condition. :shock:


And if possible, does anyone here play online?
 
I hope this isn't off topic, but I really wish I hadn't skipped the game over at the time it was out. At the time I could have bought it for my birthday or Christmas I instead got RPG's or books thinking I would get AC later.

A year later when the game should have been $20 (about the price I buy most games) and still in stock I couldn't find a single copy. Given how I love turn-based strategy + varied and deep gameplay I still to this day regret not getting it.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
I didn't buy it when it came out, but a few years later it was released in a Planetary Pack which included the Alien Crossfire expansion. That's when I got it.
 
I had the same experience about a year and a half ago, until my brother somehow lost the cd and uninstalled the game. I played all throughout Christmas break, until my mom yelled at me for not socializing.
 
You will find no help with me... FEAR THE HUNTER-SEEKER ALGORITHMS!

And yes, the psi-worms are deep in this one...
 
Dopemine Cleric said:
And if possible, does anyone here play online?
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I could play online some time, but my experience with Alpha Centauri network gaming has been less than stellar; it usually runs perfectly fine for about 70-80 minutes and then freezes completely. Not sure how come, but it has always happened to me while playing :(
Never could get around it with saving/loading either, if I remember correctly.
 
Nerve staplings for all! I was always an obsessive fungi scrubber, a clean planet is a happy planet.... well until the nerve stapling that is.
 
This game is addictive beyond all belief. I love getting to the hovertanks and then just building a horde and launching an all out attack on anybody and everybody before they can respond.
 
This game is addictive beyond all belief. I love getting to the hovertanks and then just building a horde and launching an all out attack on anybody and everybody before they can respond.
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Always thought it was a tad silly you could develop hovertanks slower than my favourite SMAC weapon.

Planet Busters.
 
Wooz said:
This game is addictive beyond all belief. I love getting to the hovertanks and then just building a horde and launching an all out attack on anybody and everybody before they can respond.
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Always thought it was a tad silly you could develop hovertanks slower than my favourite SMAC weapon.

Planet Busters.
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I used Planet Busters only once. Guess what - The others ALSO had Planetbusters. The world was pretty much destroyed in the following Mutual Assured Destruction, except for me. So Chiron pretty much had the same fate of Earth LOL.

And I would be willing to play online!
 
Dirk Magirk said:
Nerve staplings for all! I was always an obsessive fungi scrubber, a clean planet is a happy planet.... well until the nerve stapling that is.
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Wait, Planet does not like Nerve Staplings? WTF?! Why would Nerve Stapling piss the planet off? Strange... well, I'm not much of a nerve stappler, though a yearly nerve stapling in the Thought Hospital can be good for one health... :twisted:
 
What a great game... addictive as hell. It ranks along the original Medieval: Total War as my top, all-time most played games ever. Sid Meier and Brian Reinolds are both very talented designers.

The customizable units were a blast, made Civ3 boring for me... the factions were fantastic, each with its own distinctive philosophies, and many fantastic texts to read, and videos.

One particular fragment stayed with me:

"We sit together
the mountain and i
until only the mountain remains"

Li Po, from the Yang collection.

Always wanted to try the novels, i think there's a couple of them...
 
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