Weird SMAC screenshots

[binTravkin]

Isn't that from Uncharted Waters?
At least it seems that the blue blob could be CT ICSing with his CyCon.

[Kataphraktoi]

And that fusion planet buster could be completed in one turn under the drones

If you look reeallly close you can see the two bases sparta somehow captured from me i swear it wasnt my fault...

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
What is wrong with this shot?

First thing wrong is that it's to damn small.

[Leon Trotsky]

Originally posted by Leon Trotsky
I don't understand why they didn't use the 3d model for the artifact.

Nothing Vim can't fix:

Alien Artifact, Infantry, Artifact, Scout, 12,10, 0, Disable, -1, 000000000000000000000000



I wouldn't advise doing the same with mindworms, though. They all look pretty much the same:


A family picture.

[Sperber]

Actually I find the voxel-model of the mindworm much better than the icon model. If my memory doesn't fail me, they changed the mind worm model to the icon style in one of the first after-release patches. But I was already so used to the "pile of vomit" from playing the demo. It's funnier to see the worms in the pile actually squrim when they move rather than sliding a static bitmap around.

And your screenshot is wrong by the last four life cycles being the same, Leon. They still grow somewhat towards demon boil.

[Leon Trotsky]

Well, as I was setting the morale of the creatures I noticed those looked very similar, so I checked that they were correct. That's the way they look on my computer.

I guess another reason why they replaced them was the confusion with the Isle of the Deep. It would be hard to determine the number of units composing a native drop.

[Kataphraktoi]

Roads
I am firmly convinced to not build roads. They let enemies in easily, and it dosnt take very much time to get CP around anyway. Besides it looks cool this way. Also, boreholes generate FAR FAR to much ecodamage to be viable...when you get ecodamage global warming can destroy your faction quickly.

[binTravkin]

You know Cata, it looks suspiciously alike blockhead's style..

[Kataphraktoi]

You accusing me of something??

[Nightlifter]

without roads how would you move your military? or are you a builder in this case?

[Lazerus]

all his bases are empty, what military ?

Blockhead does it better looking at that year, the tech catas upto and the income heh

[Kataphraktoi]

Thats not my game guys- i have only played 10 turns of it-specificly the part where i am now popbooming. And its a role playing game, if you know what that means

[Sperber]

Originally posted by Leon Trotsky
Well, as I was setting the morale of the creatures I noticed those looked very similar, so I checked that they were correct. That's the way they look on my computer.

I tried to replicate it. But there seems to be something in the game that restricts the life cycle of native life - probably a safety measure like the 15-year-to-full-psi-strength against alien units becoming demon boils too early and rampaging through the young factions. It probably gets lifted as the game years progress.

You can create faction mind worms wuith the scenario editor though and beef them up to demon boils without a problem. And they look bigger.

[Leon Trotsky]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
Roads

I guess that where you're going you don't need roads. Zaky was wrong about time travel after all.

Originally posted by Sperber
I tried to replicate it. But there seems to be something in the game that restricts the life cycle of native life - probably a safety measure like the 15-year-to-full-psi-strength against alien units becoming demon boils too early and rampaging through the young factions. It probably gets lifted as the game years progress.

You can create faction mind worms wuith the scenario editor though and beef them up to demon boils without a problem. And they look bigger.

I placed a few native mindworms in the map, changed the mission year to 2201, and they automagically evolved to pre-boil status. I couldn't get them to have less than that, or more than Great Boil. This could lead to some interesting conclusions, but I am far too lazy and far too idiot to do the research.
Anyway, you were right. From now and on I'll be using the pile of puke model. Thanks.

[Leon Trotsky]

The good news: continent is mine.
The bad news: my elite ground based probe teams are now living in welfare.



It is not a screenshot, but I think it belongs here:
I eliminated Aki in the first years. She restarted somewhere far away. I got her frequency from someone else, and kept contacting her, but she always asked for a tech in exchange for peace. This went on for a long time, almost a century. Seeing that she was harmless, I decided to give her the tech, and following that, she surrenders! Now that's some weird behaviour.