SMAC/SMAX Survey

[Maniac]

In order to get a more detailed picture about what's going on concerning SMAX ownership and participation in a possible next acdg, I'd like to ask a few questions:

1) Do you own basic SMAC: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and have it installed? Yes or no? This may look like a stupid question, but some people did participate in this game without having SMAC.

2) Do you own SMAX: Alien Crossfire? Yes or no?

3) In a possible next acdg, would you want to play with SMAC or SMAX? I know it has been asked in a previous thread, but I'm reasking just to get all the data in one thread.

4) If we played basic SMAC, would you participate in a next ACDG? Yes or no?

5) If we played with the expansion pack SMAX, would you participate in a next ACDG? Yes or no?

Thanks for answering.

[GeneralTacticus]

1 - Yes.

2 - Yes.

3 - SMAX.

4 - Yes.

5 - Yes.

[Jamski]

Like the man says :

1 - Yes.

2 - Yes.

3 - SMAC.

4 - Yes.

5 - Yes.

But with a preference for SMAC. I hate some of the extra techs.

-Jam

[MrWhereItsAt]

Sorry you feel that way WoA. Going back to SMAC again is dropping from special extra add-on pack to basic game. Some of those extra things are great - the Brood Pit for Police, for example.

We've done enough with SMAC, let's go for SMAX this time. Honestly, how many here don't know SMAC and its tactics to transcendence and back? I would love to test in a Demo game environment the times that resonance armour/weapons are used over their pulse or basic analogues, and those new factions are just so much more varied than the first.

The Alien Crossfire pack adds so much to the mix - let's branch out and see what we can do with it...

[Jamski]

Grrr, R-Lasers

-Jam

[GeneralTacticus]

Damn, it's a dead heat now... how much longer do we have?

[Jamski]

Well, in the event of a dead heat, I'll change and go with SMAX. I'm sure I can live with the R-Lasers if I have to.

-Jam

[Hercules]

Yes
Yes
SMAX
Yes
Yes

[Archaic]

Amazing. Me and Herc can agree on something.

Yes
Yes
SMAX
Yes
Yes

[DeathByTheSword]

yes
yes
SMAX (flechette defence and pirates! )
yes
yes

[Drogue]

Looks like I won't be participating in the next DG. This was fun though

[Hercules]

Why have you not got SMAX Drogue. I know it's difficult to get/expensive on ebay nowadays, but there have been lots of opportunities over the past 2/3 years to get the expansion pact. Did you just come to the game that bit too late.

[Drogue]

No, I had SMAX, but it got scratched to death, I have a new disk, but my install of SMAC was copied from my old install, and I no llonger have the SMAC disk, so cannot install the add on, without the registry files saying I have SMAC I need a new SMAC too.

[Method]

i thought you could still get it in europe? doesn't softwarefirst still have it? if not, ebay is a good bet. regular stores however, i had a hard time finding it 2 years ago.

[Archaic]

Originally posted by Drogue
No, I had SMAX, but it got scratched to death, I have a new disk, but my install of SMAC was copied from my old install, and I no llonger have the SMAC disk, so cannot install the add on, without the registry files saying I have SMAC I need a new SMAC too.

Since you actually own the game, I suppose I might be able to arrange a registry hack for you to add all the registry files in.....

Failing that, an .iso of the Planetary Pack.