first SMACx game!

[Qualiciide]

im going to document this sucker..

faction- free drones
large world
normal life forms
6 random factions
rainy
averdge water cover
thinker level

2101- landed and saw a structure that turned out to be the unity comm bridge!

2102- comm bridge revealed that the spartans are about 10 spaces to the south, they must be elminated

2106- lost scout patrol to spartan rover, remains of unity recoverd

2106- unity mineing laser destroyes sythemetal garisson at sparta command

2107- mineing laser lost to spartan scout patrol, morale is killing me

2122- first discovery of centuari eco

2130ish- contact with believers and biogenetics, sparta command conquerd and flexy taken

2130ish- mutual trade with believers for 3 new techs of mobility, applied physics, social pysc and world map

2137- first sytemetal foil built, pod popping begun

2145ish- contact with cyborgs and cult, cult is odd because unity comm doesnt have its start spot, later saw 2 alien spore launchers fighting.. mutual trade with cyborgs

2160ish- crashed chopper in cyborg territory, doh!

2170ish- pact with cyborgs against mirum (did i mention aki has the jungle?)

2175ish- blast santiago away, she gets away with a pod, labled "class C threat" aka ignore it

2180ish- cyborgs go nuts and give mirium the wack in an unsettlingly short amout of time

2185ish- second foil collects remaining comm links, council summond lal wins out against aki with 58 vs 35+21 from me

2190ish- gene spliceing, continue beeline to other restrictions

2105ish- aki wins with my support

2110ish- first hybrid forrests begun, sun spots

SPs build-
WP
VW
Merchant Excange
HGP
Datalinks
Citizens Defense Force
energy thingy(cult traded while building, haha!)
meybe a few others

SE- frontier(thinking about fundy, which aki likes because of randomization :P) FM and know, 10 turns a tech 75 income, i colonized the manifold nexus so im at -2 planet

im second in the power graph right behind aki, who leads in military, pop and overall(thats right im ahed in tech!)

and thats where i left off, most of the stuff is genralized because im going off of memory and i played the game like 4 hr ago...

hope you like the reports...
[This message has been edited by Qualiciide (edited June 11, 2000).]

[illiria]

I love the Drones as a faction...go around, make a pact with the consiusness or the angels and research is not going to be a problem. Try to avoid battle the first couple of turns, multiply, maybe use police state (should be planned ahead, since you dont need al that children crap)
So in the beginning you just have some problems with tech and overall score, but once your population starts grwoing the techbonus kills off everything
btw: has anyone ever gotten a foriegn city due to drone riots?

[-Ashman-]

I have played through as the Drones and never received another faction's base from drone riots. What is the percentage of it happening? It must be lower than I thought it was.

[Qualiciide]

you got a manual? whoa!

i forgot a piece in the report too.. im at 7 reserch BTW not 10 and i used a poped ogre to kick the spartans out of sparta command, where it is safly sitting at 80% damage

im off to play a 100 turns or so...

[Qualiciide]

lots more stuff for an amazeing amout of time...

i left off at 2240

2248- sunspots gone

2249- war with cyborgs

2250- Omicron Quadrangle captured with probe, stole pre-sentanent algorithms, begun work on HSA, lost for liberty to probe

2253- HSA completed (cost 600 EC )

2254- cyborgs get empath guild

2255- astetic values built

2256- AIR POWER

2257- fort liberty (now sigma complex), industrial aud stolen

2258- lords truth probed, 5 garrisons! advanced military algorithms stolen, pact with cheese dong for D:AP, he has ruins, PKs build PTS

2259- lal elected gov, global trade pact turned down 6-1, steal optical cpus

2260- trade with university and peace with mirium

2261- save and quit

tons of stuff, im about 2 turns from fusion power, cult is nearing space flight, and cyborgs something useful
[This message has been edited by Qualiciide (edited June 12, 2000).]

[-Ashman-]

Unfortunately, in order to cut costs, the manual and new tech-tree chart are both on the CD in PDF format. I'm the kind of guy that likes to flip through a hardcopy.

[illiria]

strange. In the manual it sounds like a cool feature. But if the chances are like 1 in a million I could care less...
And I was trying to get a city quite hard with probe teams makeing workers mad..

[Flomper]

Yeah, I haven't even looked at the manual yet -- and I look at the AC tech tree all the time. I guess I'll have to print the thing out at some point, else I'll *never* read it.

*F*

[illiria]

So you guys DO look at that stuff? I mean, I just had a look at the info screen when you select your faction, maybe the datalinks...but the manual or even a "tech-tree", come on, wussies, thats not the way we do business here..
[This message has been edited by illiria (edited June 13, 2000).]

[Qualiciide]

hello, were suposed to be talking abotu my game here..

BTW what difficulty are you guys on?

[Qualiciide]

talent? is that lv3?

[illiria]

ja.

[illiria]

Somebody wants more attention here? anyone else around?
I am still playing on Talent. Have to find out about the new factions first

[Qualiciide]

much quieter

2262- fusion power

2271- bad turn, lost omcicrom triangle to the cyborgs and they stole fusion power, they called me up and demanded a base i caputred so i gave them it for a truce (no use i disbanded 3 garrisons and 1 was destroyed, stole a tech from the base near it though)

2274- first satalite launched

2279- aki elected governer (20 votes away from being second!) salvige unity core

2281- finshed xenoempathy dome, same and quit

sooo much better without an event every turn

[Helium Pond]

Wow, you Mac folks don't get a manual or a tech tree poster? That bites. But If I may toot my own horn, check out this version of the tech tree that I made. It lists all the techs, shows all the development paths, and lists almost everything that comes with each tech (things like "probe team base morale boosted" aren't on there, but they're not on the poster either). But the best thing about it is that it fits on one page! You can print it out and everything, assuming that Mac versions of Word will read a PC Word-generated document. There are even separate versions for SMAC and SMAX. The lovely and generous Alinestra Covelia has posted them here:
http://www.enixine.dabsol.co.uk/SMAC.html

Well, sorry to interrupt the unfolding saga with this mini-advert, but I thought y'alls might like the opportunity to see the whole tech tree at a glance.
[This message has been edited by Helium Pond (edited July 15, 2000).]