Favorite victory?

[Mr. President]

I'm in a silly poll kind of mood today.

[The Mad Monk]

Transcendence has the best story.

[Sarxis]

Spaceship to Alpha Centauri!

Oh wait..

[Frankychan]

Military!


I like 'Bustering the other factions into the stone age.

[gwillybj]

I generally prefer a Diplomatic Victory, especially when I have to depend on at least two other factions for the necessary votes
But sometimes when I'm lazy I purposely sputter along in the #3 or even #4 spot, staying just a little bit behind in tech, being financially independent but not isolationist, trading tech when it benefits me more, playing peacemaker among my pacts and treaties... Then, when another faction has done all the gruntwork and finished The Voice of Planet, buy The Ascent to Transcendence and steal the victory

[Frankychan]

man, THAT is devious.

[Hercules]

When playing as an Alien , building the 6 sub space generators to create the Resonance Communicator is quite satisfying.

[Impaler[WrG]]

HUUUU???

Wait you mean its possible to WIN at SMAC?!?!

[Jamski]

I like to transcend, launching my PBs the same turn

Phallocentric is a good word BTW.

-Jam

[Enigma_Nova]

I often try to transcend, but there's usually this nagging voice in the background:
"You may have my size 1 base surrounded with 20 of your units but I'll still throw scout patrols at you!"

[Impaler[WrG]]

I find Economic vicotory to be the hardest to achive, atleast if you can save up that much money its rather pointless as you have to be so far ahead pop, tec, territory, infastructure wise that its easier to win by any other victory method.

Perhaps if your Morgan (which I dont play much) you could find it easier and more fuffilling.

I have wondered if you edited Morgan to have Interest of 1% or 2% would if be a more viable option. I experimented with adding this ability to Morgan (its easy just add "INTEREST, X", X being the percent). Its amazing how powerfull it is, at 3% I had hundreds of credits in just a few turns and was raking in half my income from the Interest alone so I recomed 2% max or your going to break the game balance very badly.

[swillwater]

The most satisfying for me is to be able to do it all.

Basically I conquer the entire planet and then achieve all possible victories at suitable intervals.
However, if I cannot get a conquer victory then I will attempt to achieve transcendence; that one has the best story line and it seems to be the ultimate goal for all of the human factions.

[Flubber]

The alien victory is nice-- everyone should play the aliens once just top see the little movie.

I generally win a diplomatic victory. Playing out a completely won game is no fun so thats what I usually do.

I don't actually recall ever getting an economic victory unless it was just a situation where I conquered everyone leaving some pathetic remnants while I gathered the cash

[Illuminatus]

Transcend naturally. After you win you can have a target practice with PB
And then you watch swarm of mind worms appearing.
And sea levels rise in total a few thousand metres.
Great fun. Where is my nerve stapler?

[Blake]

Uh my favourite is probably economic, the cash cost is based on the alignment of the moons of Chiron and Jupiter (remember to adjust for the speed of light) so if you have lots of cash (>3000) then just try economic victory, and it might work, or it might say you need 200,000. Beware trying to save up for an economic victory can be like chasing a rainbow, it's best to take it by suprise and as early as possible.

The great thing about the Economic victory is the other factions reactions, well, you dont see them, but you can imagine it