I just lost to the AI!

[Jamski]

Try playing with only one base - it adds a certain frisson to the game... ...the AI can basically come and destroy you in a single turn whenever they want - you have to beat them from your borders and use millions of crawlers. If they manage to land waves of troops by your base... you simply cannot compete production-wise.

-Jam

[Commy]

Ah, not entirely true, Jamski. One advantage of the Angels and Morgan, use of probe teams. I have done quite a few games on Trascend that were OCC. Two units that need to be stockpiled: probe teams and missiles. Also, psi is very good, too. Using missiles to kill, psi to bipass technology, and probe teams to reverse engineer and turn on the enemy, and trust me, you won't need no energy park or crawlers. Oh, and flechette defenses are good to get early on, too, because of those PBs...

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Jamski
Try playing with only one base - it adds a certain frisson to the game... ...the AI can basically come and destroy you in a single turn whenever they want -
-Jam

I can't agree with this. I have had several OCC games where I was NEVER in any jeopardy and transcended while most of the AI was still picking lint from their respective navels. I usually manage manage to scoot into a pretty good tech lead-- I had one game where it was just funny to see an AI attacking my armored trawlers (with a 4 reactor) with fusion units. If the AI knew to use the self-destruct tactic I would be worried a bit but generally they can't make it through the crawlers to even get near my base--

Ohh and in any OCC, I put up 4 or more ODPs if any AI even shows a hint of building a PB

[miltonic]

OCC = One Command Center?

Why would you play a game with one base? To satisfy any masochistic tendencies?

[Maniac]

One City Challenge

[Flubber]

Originally posted by miltonic


Why would you play a game with one base? To satisfy any masochistic tendencies?

Because it is fun and it is far far too easy to win in Single-Player without setting some restrictions on yourself

[Chaunk]

I'm currently trying the All SPs challenge, which seems to be harder than the OCC for the first 100 turns or so. It forces you to ignore many beelines, and go for techs with projects instead... tis good fun

[Jamski]

Nice idea with the probes - that was another restriction I was usuing. Look up the old "rules" - no units with an attack value greater than 1, no probes, no PBs, etc...

-Jam

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Commy
I think I know what movie you're talking about.

Yeah, you're correct. That's the 'lost on Transcendence' movie, Commy.
Obstructor, you can view that movie in the scenario editor.
Choose the Scenario Editor and somewhere in the top half of the list you find a tab for viewing the SP movies. It's somewhere in the lower side of the movielist.

[bondetamp]

Originally posted by GeoModder

Choose the Scenario Editor and somewhere in the top half of the list you find a tab for viewing the SP movies. It's somewhere in the lower side of the movielist.

Really? I've always just used the little program that is found in the movie folder.

[Googlie]

yeah - it's smax only

Start as if to load a game, but hit "Scenario", then "Create Scenario". A sea-only map will appear

Go to the left hand menu and choose "Scenario", then about half way down "View Movies"

Now select "Empty Secret Project 38" It's the movie you get when a pactmate transcends

[Qwerty88]

The video is in classic to, but it's far easier just to go to the movies folder, the one were someone else transends (dosn't have to be a Pact Brother) is theytransend. The folder also has the opening video for both games (if you have SMAX) and all the Secret Project videos

[Qwerty88]

Originally posted by Flubber

Orisinally posted by miltonic

Why would you play a game with one base? To satisfy any masochistic tendencies?

Because it is fun and it is far far too easy to win in Single-Player without setting some restrictions on yourself

Why not just change the rules so its harder or make an imposible faction with strictly negitive atrabuts?

[Jamski]

Because OCC is a kind of "traditional" challenge. Beat the AI only using 1 city as a pure builder. Its always been a favorite of mine since playing Civ1 on the Amiga. Its a simple, focused challenge.

BTW, does anyone have a copy of the challenge "rules" anywhere?

-Jam

[Jamski]

http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum12/HTML/000154.html

It was in this thread It no longer exists - Guess I'll have to trawl the archives.

-Jam