Rediscovering SMAC

[geniemalin]

After a while of playing C3C I was getting bored and missing my design workshop and social engineering screen, so decided to go back to Alpha Centauri.

I'm having so much fun. Economic victory as the cowardly wealth-grubbing Morganites, mind-worm conquest as a Green Fundamentalist Deirdre, drop-probe warfare as Miriam...

What an opportunity they missed in Civ3 to learn from AC! What a chance for BR to step up to the plate and give us SMAC2 !

[Alex]

Indeed.

[Capt Dizle]

The current stable of hacks at Firaxis wouldn't recognize a good game if you shoved it up their kazoos.

With Civ3 they tried to make a game wherein the AI would be competitive with the human player and ended up with a game that has as much charisma as 10100101010010010101100101100011000100010010100001 0101101010100100101000001010011110010101
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[Enigma_Nova]

Are Firaxis so low, or do they just realise that many people are so gullible?

[Jamski]

Both. They go together.

-Jam

[Ned]

SMACx is STILL my favorite game. It has its flaws, but it is definitely fun to play.

[vee4473]

smac/x is awesome

[Illuminatus]

SMAX 2 would be a great game if the Big Huge Games would do it, without Sid Meir so that stupid culture model or AI on the level of a dead sea sponge would not appear. He proved with Civ 3 that each new good idea was followed by two awfull ones. Even if Brian is talked into it this there is another problem:
Sid Meir`s Alpha Centauri,
not
Brian Reynolds Alpha Centauri,
so copyright would be hurt.
Remember the Civ:CtP trial saga.
I bet that Sid would sue BHG if they started a sequel, even if Sid gave only his name to original SMAC/SMAX.
After all it is a BRIAN REYNOLDS design.

No matter, we can still dream about sequel while playing SMAC/X.

[Alex]

did you really typed all those numbers, jt? you were really bored, weren't you?

[Impaler[WrG]]

Just call it

"Brian Reynolds Alpha Centuari 2"

Sub title

"A Brian Reynolds Design, like DUUU"

We can then call the game BRAC2 and the inevitable expantions BRAC2X.

Just cut that hack Sid out of the thing entirly, Sid dosen't even own the right if I am correct. They belong to the original publishing company not Firaxis. Who ever owns them it probly wont be hugly dificult to get the rights, these games are quite a nitch market to be honest and who else could they sell it to? Brian could make plenty of sucessfull game without the AC name, if he chosse to persue a sequal it would be as a return to more traditional TBSGs after his work in more experimental game modes like RON.

[Jamski]

I'd be proud to own a copy of BRAC2 and BRAX2

-Jam

[Lazerus]

Aslong as they don't screw it up, i'd prefer to dream of a golden game then be given a crappy one.

[VitalyB]

Reminds me

That reminds me that for a VERY long time (9th - 10th grades) I was sure that "Designed by Bryan Reynolds" means that he designed the main menu of the game or at most the graphics.

I just couldn't figure out what this Bryan's doing on the main screen under the giant "Sid Meyer" letters.

[Illuminatus]

Re: Reminds me

Originally posted by VitalyB
That reminds me that for a VERY long time (9th - 10th grades) I was sure that "Designed by Bryan Reynolds" means that he designed the main menu of the game or at most the graphics.

I just couldn't figure out what this Bryan's doing on the main screen under the giant "Sid Meyer" letters.

See - power of marketing

And even if virtually all the good stuff in SMAC/X are his work, people think that he designed the menu (no offense VitalyB)
No wonder he started up his own company.

[The Mad Monk]

If SMAC2 were the exact same as SMAX, the sole exception being the ability to have sixteen (or more) factions playing at the same time, would you buy it?

I would.