Weird SMAC screenshots

[Darsnan]

Opposites Attract?

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
I found the distribution to be really odd. Since the game insists on integers for energy allocation, with 5 energy and a 90/0/10 split, 5/0/0 and 4/0/1 would be equally near the desired split, and either would be acceptable. To throw a leftover point into labs is absolutely silly, and reveals sloppy programming, but that wouldn't be unprecedented in Alpha Centauri. Fortunately, the game is so good that it partially transcends its implementation.

I have run into similar situations in the past where I am left scratching my head. One thing that seems to be a theme is that the opposite happens from what I anticipated. Your example of the Believers receiving an extra Lab point is a prime example of what I have experienced (question here: is this a human controlled or AI controlled Believer Faction?), as the last place the Believers would allocate an extra EC would be to Labs, right? On a related note why in the game I'm working on right now the Gaians repeatedly voted not to intervene to stop the effects of Global Warming - I couldn't even bribe them on this!?!

This sort of thing leads me to believe that there is an algorhythm at work that is compensating for a Faction's natural tendencies, and we are seeing the end results manifested in some of the finer nuances of the game.


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[Chaos Theory]

The faction is controlled by me, in fact in an active PBEM.

[Frankychan]

Didn't Tassadar have a screenie where he was being attacked by some Borg looking unit? I believe it was controlled by Planet too, it looked like a whole bunch of blocks and stuff.

The only thing I've ever encountered is the Hive running Police State/Planned/Power and I've gotten +1 Planet.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Frankychan
Didn't Tassadar have a screenie where he was being attacked by some Borg looking unit? I believe it was controlled by Planet too, it looked like a whole bunch of blocks and stuff.

Attached is a screenie of the various pics you can insert for units in the game. In the upper left hand corner you will see the unit Tassadar was talking about. I believe Firaxis was intending for it to be a Cloudbase (there is some hardcoding in place for it as well), but it didn't make the final cut.

Originally posted by Frankychan
The only thing I've ever encountered is the Hive running Police State/Planned/Power and I've gotten +1 Planet.

You lead a very boring life, FC.....


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[Chaos Theory]

Frankychan: sounds like you controlled the Manifold Nexus.

[Datajack Franit]

Indeed

[Frankychan]

There, on the upper left hand corner! That's the thing I remember him talking about.

Originally posted by Darsnan

You lead a very boring life, FC.....

Hey hey hey...sometimes I spice it up and use Wealth sometimes. Crazy, no?

As for the +1 Planet, it occured when I was on the landmass with the Freshwater Lake. I didn't even have any territory near the Manifold Nexus...weird. *shrug*

[Lazerus]

You hippie ! i bet you had no ecodamage aswell !!

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Frankychan
There, on the upper left hand corner! That's the thing I remember him talking about.

Yeah, I use the pic in some of my Single Player Challenges that I set up. Below is an example:

[binTravkin]

Darsnan, your screenie is very unqualitative.

Advice is to have both the picture editor and SMACX running simultaneously, then open SMACX, click Print Screen, Alt_Tab to pic editor, paste the screenie.

That way you should get normal colors in your pics.

[Mart]

That not always works. It has something to do with windows color palette replacement or smth like that.

What I found working is to add in Alphacentauri.ini under:
[Alpha Centuri]
DirectDraw=0

As in readme.txt:

Settings this to 0 disables DirectDraw. This disables the automatic window
resolution resizing during program launch.

And it also allows for play in any resolution higher than 1024x768. I have currently 1400x1050. Can't imagine going any lower

[binTravkin]

I have it zero and it works, just don't close the SMAC or DirectDraw will reset colors and the pasted picture colors will be messed.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by binTravkin
Darsnan, your screenie is very unqualitative.

Humph! If your going to be that way, then I won't post pics - I'll just tell you what I saw. Essentially I'm running Green and had a sealurk next to an airbase, which had an NL sitting on it. Just for fun I attacked the NL unit, expecting to get the reply that "its not allowed". To my surprise I captured the NL unit! Anyone have that happen to them before?


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[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Lazerus

You hippie ! i bet you had no ecodamage aswell !!

Hey, give me some credit. I had a bunch of ecodamage, but I still can't quite get a handle on those massive mindworm boils that come out.


But here's a screenie that I thought would be (sarcastically) funny. Lal just contacted me, praising my accomplishments and asked for my help in attacking Miriam. With a little bribe, the deal was sealed and now I'm embroiled in a little war with Miriam...this will give me a foothold on the only continent I don't have a base.

And for me to spread the word of Yang.

[Frankychan]

Sorry for the fuzziness, when I resized the image, it lost some clarity.

Apolyton doesn't like it when you post things bigger than 800x(whatever).