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quite a few votes for the gaians. What's so great about them?
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Maybe because they are the default choice when you start the program for the first time ? The same goes for CyCon in SMAX.Originally posted by Dissident
quite a few votes for the gaians. What's so great about them?
Edit : that was a lousy answer. I guess that since they are default, most people learn to play them well, and hesitates to change to others. When they do, they more or less has to start all over with the new factions peculiarites.
Both Gaians and CyCons are pretty easy factions as long as you don't start to fiddle with SE (wich isn't your first choice trying to learn this goddamn program
) Well, when you start to fiddle with SE, both Gaians and CyCon are extremely strong factions witch discourages playing others where you get your azs kicked a lot before you know how to play them.
Maybe SMAX II should have the lousiest faction as default so people will enjoy changing to others ?Last edited by BlackCat; May 7, 2005, 18:11.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I should have voted for the University, not the Angels...science is, after all, the only true way to enlightment...assuming you haven't been brainwashed by Miriam or Yang first...Comment
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Now easy - after all you has at last seen the light. Just a single disagreement - UoP isn't the best choice - gaian or CyCon is better.
Just repeat after me - Gaian and CyCon is the winner ...With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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democracy is best. all hail the peacekeepers.
and yes I like being assured governor (actually sometimes I still need to build Empath). I like being governor.Comment
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I think I'll start by mentioning that a majority of my games have me leading the University of Planet, against the other six original factions. I've personally found research to be of importance ever since I've first played the game years ago, although that could just be my finding advances technology to be really cool.
I guess my next favorite factions, in some order, would be the Morganites, CyCon, Gaians, Usurpers, and Peacekeepers, for various reasons. (that were enough for me to include them, along with the University, in my voting for favorite factions in this thread.)Known in most other places as Anon Zytose.
+3 Research, +2 Efficiency, -1 Growth, -2 Industry, -2 Support.
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I played the Gaians many times before trying another faction (the University) because they were the default faction and I was just learning the game. They are still a really strong faction (iirc the record transcend time was set with the Gaians), though I rarely play them anymore.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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I broke my virginity with the peacekeepers.Comment
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You are absolutely right...the Cyborgs are the only true way to enlightenment...now I wish I hadn't uninstalled SMAX...what was I thinking...it must be the spores getting to my head...perhaps withdrawl symptoms...Originally posted by BlackCat
Now easy - after all you has at last seen the light. Just a single disagreement - UoP isn't the best choice - gaian or CyCon is better.
Just repeat after me - Gaian and CyCon is the winner ...Comment
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Originally posted by Dissident
okay, who voted for the believers?
Maybe someone was just being a smarta**?
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Actually, I've been quite impressed with the Gaian ICS. You can break the 3rd or 4th B-limit and still keep the B-drones in managable numbers through Gaian efficiency. Additionally, if you pour all your efforts into getting the PTS then you have several advantages over other factions. Due to a likelihood of an early game planned/wealth you will almost certainly have more bases than other players but the +2 fungnutrients allows you to keep your PTS 3 pop from starving. I've had populations of 80 by 2150 vs the CPU and have just stopped right there as I know exactly what the rest of the game holds.Comment
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The bureaucracy drones won't be less with the Gaians after the 3rd or 4th limit, but those limits will be higher for factions which are running with higher efficiencies. Bottom line: More bases for the same number of drones, which rocks.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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If you run Planned without Democracy, your bureaucracy limit will be no higher than any other faction's."Cutlery confused Stalin"
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Such an expression is worth a good laugh all by itself!okay, who voted for the believers?
-- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
-- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Comment
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What you want to say is:Originally posted by Chaos Theory
If you run Planned without Democracy, your bureaucracy limit will be no higher than any other faction's.
"Negative efficiency is treated as 0 efficiency for the Expansion drones"
What you said is:
'If you have -2 EFFIC, your Expansion limit will be at most as small as everyone else's."Comment
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