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I'd like to share a strategy i've learned while playing SMAC. If you want to get ahead in the SP race, here is the tip:
Note: When i use this strategy, (as the UNIV) i am always the most powerful faction.
a) first make pact or friends with the 2nd most powerful faction or the faction you are most comfortable with. In my case I choose Gaians or Peace.
b) make war with the most irritable or the most closest threat. I usually choose to fight with the Believers or the Hive.
c) The 2nd most powerful faction almost always builds the same SP and is the most competent to challenge your power in building.
d) Try to capture a number of bases from your mortal enemy and keep them existing within your control.
e) When the 2nd mp faction tries to or is nearing completion in building the SP you are also working on or the one you are planning to work on, try to exchange bases with the faction, getting the base where the SP is being built in exchange for one of the bases you have captured.
Through this you are able to hinder the completion of the SP, giving you time to catch up on your building. Do this everytime you don't want other factions to get the SP.
Extra: If you do not want the base you had exchanged for, give it away as a gift, back to the original owner or to a friend faction you want to strengthen ties with.
Note: When i use this strategy, (as the UNIV) i am always the most powerful faction.
a) first make pact or friends with the 2nd most powerful faction or the faction you are most comfortable with. In my case I choose Gaians or Peace.
b) make war with the most irritable or the most closest threat. I usually choose to fight with the Believers or the Hive.
c) The 2nd most powerful faction almost always builds the same SP and is the most competent to challenge your power in building.
d) Try to capture a number of bases from your mortal enemy and keep them existing within your control.
e) When the 2nd mp faction tries to or is nearing completion in building the SP you are also working on or the one you are planning to work on, try to exchange bases with the faction, getting the base where the SP is being built in exchange for one of the bases you have captured.
Through this you are able to hinder the completion of the SP, giving you time to catch up on your building. Do this everytime you don't want other factions to get the SP.
Extra: If you do not want the base you had exchanged for, give it away as a gift, back to the original owner or to a friend faction you want to strengthen ties with.
) to switch bases with the AI after the SP has already been completed.
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) time I tried this trick it worked. I traded a just conquered and worthless base with my allies the Consciousness. It had two juicy SPs in it.
) there is only one patch erm enhancement for Alien Crossfire and I've got it. It could be of course that Firaxis spent more time on the Mac patches than on the poor PC users. How dare they?!?
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