Fave SMAC quote?

[Black Sunrise]

that's what happens when you always play late at night

Hey, the kids aren't home! Noones home!
Turn out all the lights, turn up the sound, turn on all the bells and whistles and background music!
yay!


BTW: a) all these quotes are .MP3 files. I stuck them in my audio player, and now I hear not just normal songs on my computer, I hear my favorite quotes, as well. and b) all these quotes are available as blurbs.txt file in the AC folder, suitable for copy/pasting.
Indra

[Alynzia]

Stuff

As to not to get too off-topic, my favourite SMAC quote is the one by Zakharov about the Lab Three Aftermath, mentioned before. Now THAT is voice talent!

A question to Black Sunrise, where are the written texts for the facility voiceovers? I cannot seem to find them.

Also I have some problems, which I hope some educated people will help me with.

1. Are electrons made from quarks? I'm not sure. An electron is a lepton, and my book (from 1986, no less!) tells me that leptons have no internal structure. Has this since been disproved?

2. About Einstein's dice. I believe that was in a conversation to Niels Bohr about how the Universe is totally random. Chairman Yang is a dip-stick. For the dice to be loaded means there is a tendency for something more than pure randomness, probabilities which are sharper in definition. Surely Einstein would approve of this, because it is closer to Newtonian mechanics than the total uncertainty present in quantum mechanics.

I think that's me done. Please answer me lest I shall live in torment!

(P.S. Since this was SMAC Fanatic's thread, I'd like to wish him good luck with the A Level results that come out in two weeks!)

[Black Sunrise]

A question to Black Sunrise, where are the written texts for the facility voiceovers?

for me:
C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
look for blurbs.txt and blurbsx.txt
or, search your harddrive for those files.

One of my favorites, that you don't see in the game, but that's coded in:

##Mass to Energy
#FAC38
I hold a scrap of paper in the darkness and
light it. I watch it burn bright and curl, disappearing
into nothingness, and the heat burns my fingers.
Where has it gone? What has it become? I cannot shake
the feeling that I have witnessed a form of transcendence.
^
^ -- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
^ "The Convergence"



Indra

[Alynzia]

The pest is back!

Thanks Black Sunrise, I'm really that stupid I didn't scroll down to find the facility quotes, I thought it was just a list of the tech quotes. You know, I actually sat and listened to the appropriate facility quotes when writing my version of Nonlinear Genetics. Sat and typed and listened. The shame...

That Lal quote is good. It stands to reason that they were going to use it for Stockpile Energy because minerals to energy fits that. I wonder why it didn't get in?

The same with quoted techs Inertial Damping (Tech 24) and Global Energy Theory (Tech 70). I've never seen or heard them before, but 'A Tactical History of Sparta' sounds really interesting for Tech 24.

And I find it inconceivable that no pedant can't correct me on my two problems. Are you ignoring me because I'm stupid? You'll argue with each other about minor spelling mistakes, but won't correct me on something interesting

Alynzia.

[Black Sunrise]

Regarding 2: Einstein would agree. He was of the opinion that all was -not- chance, and thus Yangs research would have pleased him.
Indra
sorry for the one-liner, I just got home from work.

[Kassiopeia]

Inertial Damping sounds cool, but I wonder why it didn't make it to the game?

[heretk]

There a LOT of great quotes in SMAC. I really admire the way Firaxis put together that whole "quote with tech discovery" scheme. Quality work.

My favorite is the one you get with the discovery of Homo Superior, which cites Friedrich Neitzsche. I don't have it memorized, but it starts "Companions the Creator seeks, not followers ..."

[Black Sunrise]

Inertial Damping sounds cool, but I wonder why it didn't make it to the game?

Origionally, they had intended to have not just Physical/Psych weapons, but Energy/Kinetic/Psych.
They scrapped that plan when they realized it would be unwieldy for game-play.
Indra

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Black Sunrise
Origionally, they had intended to have not just Physical/Psych weapons, but Energy/Kinetic/Psych.
They scrapped that plan when they realized it would be unwieldy for game-play.
Indra

Ummm.... THey have energy/kinetic/psych! According to The Manual, for example the Missile Launcher and Chaos Gun are projectile -> kinetic weapons, whereas lasers and particle impactors are energy weapons. That's why I don't usually upgrade from Plasma Steel to Silksteel, but to Probability, because Plasma protects from Kinetic and Energy, but Silksteel and Photon walls only protect from energy weapons.

[Clear Skies]

Um...nope, I think you'll find that's only in the manual...

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by SMAC Fanatic
Um...nope, I think you'll find that's only in the manual...

Oh...
I always thought that there was a difference between armor types and weapon types... that it wouldn't be just about the numbers.

[Lefty Scaevola]

The differentiation between particle and energy armors was not implemented in the released game.

[Method]

would've made sense though that a photon wall would do f*ck all against a missile launcher.

[Abyssmal]

"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." ChairmanYang. I don't know what tech. or facility it came from.

[Method]

that's the end of lal's quote when you pick factions, and for the planet(ary) data(links).