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  • #46
    Can't remember exactly, maybe it was the University...

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    • #47
      Gaians. They're still my favorite faction, along with Zak.

      I actually only played the tutorial scenarios many months after I had bought the game...
      I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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      • #48
        Uni. Agreed with the ideology, and wanted to be on top of the tech heap.
        Veni Vidi Castravi Illegitimos

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        • #49
          Uni.

          The order I played the factions:
          Uni, Gaian, Lal, Morgan, Sparta, Myriam, Hive

          The order I won at transcient, ironman:
          Morgan, Gaian, Uni, Lal, Sparta, Myriam, Hive
          The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.

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          • #50
            The first one I played as has got to be the Hive. I looked at the one asian there, saw "Great China" and thought to myself- this is the one for me.

            I tried out Spartans and Believers, but I found them both lacking. Spartans never had the industrial power to build a real army or real bases, and I missed the way taking a single base on the enemy continent was the kiss of death for them- they have 5 turns to take that base back, otherwise it's mine forever. And the Believers rely on other people for tech too much, I like to be self-sufficient.

            Yang is still the one for me.

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            • #51
              If my memory serves me correctly, my first game of SMAC was with the spartans. As playing with them, I wondered that "there must be something wrong, because my prototypes don't cost anything special here... " - Only after I read about their specs more carefully, I got the picture
              I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by Skanky Burns
                Uni, because I wanted to explore all the techs first. Hooray.
                Ditto here. Uni was first when I got my hands on the demo version, Uni was first when I finally got the actual game. I played Uni so much before trying anything else that my games with other factions were very crippled for a while.
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                • #53
                  The Gaians, simply because they seemed like the Faction I'd Most Like To Belong To. I managed to win that game by Transendance... of course it was only on Citizen level, but still.
                  "I'm too young and too male to be the mother of a seventeen year old female me!"

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                  • #54
                    Peacekeepers. I figured my first game would be focused on learning all the stuff that affected game play. So a faction that had the fewest built in social engineering affects would offer the best opportunity to try a little bit of everything.

                    Then, I branched out into the more 'extreme' factions.

                    I don't like playing the Peacekeepers anymore.

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                    • #55
                      I can't remember if it was the Peacekeepers first, or the Gaians, but pretty much either one.

                      Then the University, then Morgan, and once or twice Sparta. In Smax, I've played Roze and Aki Zeta and the Usurpers.


                      I've never played the Believers.
                      Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                      ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                      • #56
                        Did anyone get both games at once and play a Smax faction first?
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                        • #57
                          The same one I still play today -- UNIVERSITY ALL THE WAY, BABY!
                          No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                          • #58
                            I think I started my very first game back in the demo as the Uni.

                            My first game in the real game was as the Spartans. What can I say, I'm a warmonger.
                            Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                            It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
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                            • #59
                              The first faction that I played as were the Peacekeepers.
                              My favorite is the Nautilus Pirates though.

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