What is your most hated faction?

[Vytae]

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Miriam,hands down. Yang,Miriam and Lal have Pbed me before,so i couldnt choose from that. Yang clogs up the ocean all to hell,but so does lal. Yang however is just downright mean,and i respect that. Miriam vs Lal,they are both self righteous bastards. Lal however rarely ever attacks me. He *****es up one side and down being a total hypocrite but rarely ever attacks. And when subdued,STAYS subdued.

Miriam,thinks its fun to ship load after load after load of impact infantry at me,somehow getting past patrolling warships or the like. She backstabs me any chance she gets,and the religous ranting is tiring even when she is subdued. ANd shes votile,she attacks on site unless you give in to her outrageous demands.

[Clear Skies]

It's SUCH a harrrrd choice...

(This thread actually fits quite nicely with the Do You Take SMAC/X Personally thread!)

Eventually I chose Miriam because she pees me off right from the start, although if you read my post in the aforementioned thread I have issues with almost every single faction! Aki is about the only one with whom I have no barney...

However, Miriam beats them all into the ground, especially when you have neutronium-armoured Sentinels and she sends about seventeen rounds of Laser Infantry in to attack them....yawwwwn....roll on fast battle resolution...

[Frankychan]

bible thumper's suck!!!

Well......if you must know,

I HATE Miriam She has pissed me off so many times its unbelievable. Here are some things that happened to me when I first started playing

1. Miriam allies with me, then when my military resources are on a different continent, she invades my territories enmass!

2. She launches a nuke at me, then declare Vendetta. Blows up one of my glorious Hive-holes with two Special Projects in them!

3. Destroyed a fleet of transports (with accompanying foils) with her damn 'airforce' and 'navy'....i thought 5 foils were enough!

4. Took my capitol. She's the only faction that managed to take the Hive from me.

5. The very first time I played SMAC and met her for the VERY first time, she tells me to give her tech...I say no, then she invades me and takes over two bases?

6. Invaded my continent enmass (again) and it took me a LONG time to get her off.

7. She had 2 other factions turn on me. Never had that happen before.

8. Lastly, I subjigated her taking around 10 of her bases. 20 years later she turns on me and takes over half of them back!

So....that's why I hate the Bible-Thumper Miriam.

Chairman Yang Forever!!!!Woooooooo!!!!

[Sarxis]

Is anyone surprised by the poll results?

[Morganstern]

Although I picked the Hive, the Believers were my next choice. The only distinction is that the Believers have always proven so much easier to defeat militarily, and you don't have to put up with all those colony pods invading or reducing your space! The Alien Crossfire factions are too new (to me) on this one, although that little tree hugging Planet Cult twerp is moving up the scale.

[Method]

Originally posted by Anunikoba
Is anyone surprised by the poll results?

no. except that sombody else voted for domai. who are you? show yourself!

[Kassiopeia]

NOBODY voted for Cha Dawn of Aki Zeta-Five. And they can be annoying - Cha Dawn is a green fundie and Aki gets so overlong in tech that it gives me the creeps.
Though, I did vote for Miriam...

[Blake]

And no-one voted for Roze, and I'm sure I've seen anti-Roze rants at time...

Also interestingly no-one voted for the Aliens, is this because it is implied that you hate the aliens?

The reasons for hating a faction are varied... from "they beat me up" to "they are boring"

[Kassiopeia]

Come to think of it, every faction can be hated. If it wouldn't be so, it would be a dull game, and we would not be here discussing it.
But here people have voted, which faction they despise, which faction makes their blood boil by just showing up on the neighbouring island and landing troops on your land mass making ludicrous demands.

[knowhow2]

The eternal "pick one" mentality. Somehow our society works that way. Everthing and everyone has to be topped. There is always someone most anything. Why is that?

Why not just keep things equal and fair. Almost too OT now. Better I stop.

[CygnusZ]

Believers... man do I hate organized religion

[Ned]

I don't actually "hate" any faction. I would just rank the opponents in terms of difficulty in beating them.

The best opponent is LAL. The second best is Dr. Z.

Ned

[Bella Hella]

i was original!

i voted for cha dawn of the cult. how does he bother me? let me count the ways:

- there's NO pleasing him, ever. at least yang and miriam get happy if you pick their SE choices.
- he'll never be your friend. he's always seething.
- cha dawn is a wuss and doesn't realize it. i hate it when AI factions declare war on you when there's no way they could ever possibly win.
- his picture is scary and freaky.
- he's always at war with everybody. so you get dragged into wars too.
- i hate the color pink.
- you're screwed unless you pick fundy and green.
- he never has any good techs.
- cults frighten me. do they all have to drink the poisoned fungal wine?

other than that, i just find the cult highly disturbing and annoying.

[Tizzy]

I've hated them all at different times!
Yang for being the only one to PB me (and a base with lots of SP's in it as well!)
Roze for not knowing the meaning of "submissive" and continually probing me.
Sven for building sea bases which overlap my coastal bases.
Aki for refusing to submit and continually escaping in colony pods.
Lal for back-stabbing (Peacekeeping? Hah!)

and so on.

Most of them never really make my blood boil though.

[Lord_Icewind]

the pirates have very few votes. I understand the miriam-yang hating syndrome (I voted Miriam ) but the pirates tend to be very, very annoying. Even if the world has a 50% or less ocean coverage, hes is an annoying little $%&/!"$· and when its 70-90%..well, he has a REALLY big advantage...try playing versus the AI in a 70 90% ocean coverage game at tracend dificulty and he'll beat the hell out of you. As an allie, he's treacherous and cunning, and does not let your units get near him..I wonder, if at the beggining, when smax was a proyect, the pirates did not have the -1 efficiency and growth..they where monsters!.

What if an alien faction took the "water faction"
choice?