Prolly the poll didn't work because you forgot the banana.
I can't remember if this has ever been done (probably, but I'm taking a shot at it).
Anyway, my question to you all is this: If you could be any one of the faction leaders, which one would you be? This isn't "Which Faction leader you agree with most" or "Who would you like to date".
I'm talking about YOU actually leading the faction. So, who's will you be?
A Lady or Lord of the Gaian's? Will you preserve the environment on Planet?
A Chairman of the Hive? Will you value personal power and total command over millions of citizens, leading your faction to 'Humanity's Utopia'?
A Provost of the University? Discovering new information and delving into vast research possibilities?
A CEO of your company? Making untold amounts of wealth and satisfying every hedonistic craving?
A Colonel in the Spartan Federation? Will you thrive in the "great outdoors" and lead your own personal militia?
A Sister or Deacon leading the Lord's Believers? Will you lead your people to spiritual aspects that other factions cannot comprehend?
A Commissioner of the U.N. Peacekeepers? Uphold Earth's values on a foreign planet?
OR....
A Cult Leader? Will you lead a cult, worshipping Planet as a 'God'?
A Cyborg Leader? Will you be a member of the 'collective' and expunge all of your emotions for "logic"?
A Foreman of Free Drones? Will you lead those of the downtrodden into a new life of industrial knowhow and a (supposed) egalitarian society?
A Datajack Hacker of the DataAngels? Will you forgo society and lead a quasi-anarchistic society that concerns itself with computers and data?
A Pirate Captain of the Nautilus Pirates? Forget the landlubbers and sail the high seas in search for adventure and gold?!
[EDIT: Dang it!Stupid Poll button didn't work!]
Despot-(1a) : a ruler with absolute power and authority (1b) : a person exercising power tyrannically
Beyond Alpha Centauri-Witness the glory of Sheng-ji Yang
*****Citizen of the Hive****
"...but what sane person would move from Hawaii to Indiana?" -Dis
Prolly the poll didn't work because you forgot the banana.
"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
I wouldn't want to have to lead people.
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
For a decision like that, I'd have to choose the faction leader that is most like me (and way much more like me than any other character in SMAC/X or any downloadable factions I've ever seen. That leader is Academician Prokhor Zakharov. He and I have pretty much all the same strengths and weaknesses in real life, and I probably wouldn't wish it any other way. We're both logical, smart, lack ethical and social judgement, going to take engineering majors in college, and really like technology.
On top of that, his date of birth was one day after I turned eight.
Morganites
Forgot to mention my own pick........Chairman Frankychan of the Hive.
(As if it was a hard guess.....)
Despot-(1a) : a ruler with absolute power and authority (1b) : a person exercising power tyrannically
Beyond Alpha Centauri-Witness the glory of Sheng-ji Yang
*****Citizen of the Hive****
"...but what sane person would move from Hawaii to Indiana?" -Dis
If I had to choose though, I would probably go for Morganites.
Cyborgs would be my top choice were the cybernetic addition a symbiosis rather than a takeover.
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
Cyborgs, or University, or Data Angels, roughly in that order.
Hi, I'm a sig virus. Pass me on by putting me in your sig!
No option of being one of the aliens then?
I think I would choose Cyborgs. You'd probably need to be one to be able to run an entire faction with more or less absolute authority.
Friar William
( Believers
not
PlanetCult)
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<---- I'm a drone, I would lead the drones over their oppressors.
Funny thing is I am an intellectual at heart, and would follow under the borgs or univ.
"They’re lazy troublemakers, and they all carry weapons." - SMAC Manual, Page 59 Regarding Drones
"Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"If fascism came to America it would be on a program of Americanism." -- Huey Long
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering
Cyborgs... maybe the Believers.. its just Miriam has twisted them so... or Data Angels!
Data Angels, Morganites, Gaians
Well, DataJack. A good faction leader checks his inbox regularly as well...
Well, I know you aren't addressing that to ME! My PM inbox is fine, and my e-mail is too... So were you trying to, Geo? Check the game thread...
Originally posted by GeoModder
Well, DataJack. A good faction leader checks his inbox regularly as well...
/me gestures at the posting above.Originally posted by Ouro_827
Well, I know you aren't addressing that to ME! My PM inbox is fine, and my e-mail is too... So were you trying to, Geo? Check the game thread...
I have a tendency not to be in the leader position but rather a strong and loyal supporter. However if I must choose I would be Lady Hong of the Gaians.
Be good, and if at first you don't succeed, perhaps failure will be back in fashion soon. -- teh Spamski
Grapefruit Garden
*Chairman Frankychan bows to Lady Hong*
Despot-(1a) : a ruler with absolute power and authority (1b) : a person exercising power tyrannically
Beyond Alpha Centauri-Witness the glory of Sheng-ji Yang
*****Citizen of the Hive****
"...but what sane person would move from Hawaii to Indiana?" -Dis
Peacekeepers Leader
Why peacekeepers, Mart7x5?
Do you like faction or do you like its ideals?
By the way - my fac:
Any!
Seriuosly!
Depending on settings (map, difficulty, rainfall etc.. and especially - my mood)
But if we assume, that:
Diff = transc
Map = huge map of planet
and all those settings of HMoP..
lord binTravkin of Gaians!
And will make use of mindWorms and popbooming (I mean - my SE will differ from that of Lady Deirdre and will be much more powerful)
I changed all the AI.txt files to make them as good as possible (I tweaked their SE choices, agresiveness and values (explore, conquer..etc)
Gaia had:
Politics, Democratic, INDUSTRY (to have Planned, wealth and later Eudaimonia)
And she was building Childrens creches quite rapidly..
Can you imagine?
I was Lal with goood starting position, popped lots of minerals and so on..
I played as good as I could!
But Deirdre had Monsoon + rainfall was at max..
I barely got elected to Governor (and I even had Empath Guild)!
Her bases went till 14 in average of 30 turns (she just built Creche, Commons, theatres and had HGP as a point on 'i')
And she released forests in Monsoon and popped one hydroponics pod there also..
And then she got enough minerals to build Treefarms and HybridForests (when a base reached 7, mineral output was 16-little support)...
It was the first time I lost a game to AI.. (she made her transcendant)..
Shame, shame, shame!
Last edited by binTravkin; April 30, 2004 at 06:57.
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-- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
It's universal faction. Seems to give most freedom
I would be Marr
But seriously, I _am_ human, so I'd go with PKs or Uni
#play s.-cd#g+c-ga#+dgfg#+cf----q.c
#endgame
Quantum P. is a champion: http://geocities.com/zztexpert/docs/upoprgv4.html
Zakharov. Knowledge in a hostile alien land is the best defense.
Santiago is my second choice, but I've noticed that exhorting people to be strong influences some to inflexible and overly-straightforward thinking.
Just as Roze's reliance on subtlety seems foolish in the face of 12 Spartan Rovers, some of my followers might not grasp the importance of subtlety with 12 Impact Rovers parked in the garage.
Better to tell my followers they need to be smart, and let them figure out the strong part for themselves.
Skye is third, but only because Earth's environmentalists often succomb to "junk science" in the field of ecology and I would want my followers to be more objective.
Of course in a world where fungus has psychic powers the Gaians' "silly religion" might not seem so silly ... but I, as Provost, would arrive at this conclusion because the evidence suggested it, not because I wanted to score points with the wing-nut Greenpeace chick.
Hmn... this is a really TOUGH QUESTION.
I wonder which faction leader I would be....
I'll have to get back to you.
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