Vote for SMAC2 at firaxis.com

[Ironwood]

I wonder how much money one would have to bring together to acquire the rights to SMAC? I've always wondered if, so many years later, there could be enough fans with sufficient money to actually create a corporation for the sole purpose of acquiring said rights.

I wonder if its even possible to ask the current rights holders "Are you planning on doing anything with this property? If not, what would you be willing to sell it for?"

[alexx]

Originally posted by Ironwood
I wonder how much money one would have to bring together to acquire the rights to SMAC? I've always wondered if, so many years later, there could be enough fans with sufficient money to actually create a corporation for the sole purpose of acquiring said rights.

I wonder if its even possible to ask the current rights holders "Are you planning on doing anything with this property? If not, what would you be willing to sell it for?"

Nice idea...
However, there is Civ clone called FreeCiv.
Why not doing the same with SMAC?
If we corrected few bugs, add few minor updates (culture, resurces, etc), IMPROVE AI, then we would have... perfect TBS

[vyeh]

Originally posted by Darsnan
Well the poll is finally gone at Firaxis. This thread can now be de-topped I think.

btw SMAC2 was in the lead last time I checked, having garnered something on the order of 46% of the vote. Next closest was Col2 with around 26%.

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Edit: hmmm, interesting: results are back! Wonder if they had a minor glitch at their website?

I tried the link in the OP and the poll was gone.

[Xian]

Originally posted by Ironwood
I wonder how much money one would have to bring together to acquire the rights to SMAC? I've always wondered if, so many years later, there could be enough fans with sufficient money to actually create a corporation for the sole purpose of acquiring said rights.

I wonder if its even possible to ask the current rights holders "Are you planning on doing anything with this property? If not, what would you be willing to sell it for?"

Or more simply, allow the publisher to keep the rights and profits, but ask the publisher to release the sourcecode under a GNU license or something similar. This is the best of all worlds for all parties involved.

[DarkCloud]

You know, if Colonization II does a brisk business, they probably WILL remake AC with the new 3D engine... I don't know if that will necessarily be a good idea- I'd rather see a dedicated AC engine, but it will be exciting!