CEO Rubin makes planetfall!

[Mart]

Originally posted by Senethro
How did you get the pretty colours to be correct in the screenshots :/

If I understand your troubles correctly, try adding under your:
[Alpha Centauri]
DirectDraw=0

It is probably important to have it below [Alpha Centauri] but I am not sure of that

My preferences have just one option, since I use WinXP:

[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1

[Chaos Theory]

With the amount of energy Morgan gets, the limiting factor in GAs is not psych, but bureaucracy and the psych limit. On Transcend, without the HGP (or other talent-granting effects besides psych), any city suffering extra drones for any reason (usually bureaucracy) cannot enter a GA when it has an odd population. With two extra drones, even an even-sized city can't GA. The HGP relaxes this somewhat, but for Morgan, ICS and pop-booming are incompatible until the Cloning Vats.

[Senethro]

I was doing a messy 2 square spacing targetting nut resources, monoliths and rainy/rolling/1000m tiles for fast growth.

What do you mean by psych limit? Does psych have trouble countering B-drones?

[Chaos Theory]

Psych is capped at 2 per point of population in a base. This means that with psych, you can barely bring a base that's all normal drones to a base that's half talents and half drones, letting facilities/specialists eliminate the rest of the drones. If a base is odd-sized, you need a little more than half talents, so if it starts out all drones (1 bureaucracy drone), you can't enter a GA without another source of talents (HGP, Clinical Immortality, Paradise Garden, TALENT SE score, Lal's talents). Abilities like Domai's NODRONE can also help mitigate bureaucracy and allow GAs more easily, but drones must be removed before psych is applied to help psych make talents. Super-drones really tend to kill GAs.

[Senethro]

What happens to the rest of the Psych energy? Is it wasted or does it go back to econ/labs? At what point are the facility multipliers applied?

I feel like I should know, but I've gone through plenty games ignoring psych completely :/

[Chaos Theory]

The extra psych is ignored. The cap is applied after facility multipliers.

[NanoDingo]

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
...TALENT SE score...

Huh?
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[Chaos Theory]

It's something that is implemented in SMAC/X, but just barely. You can assign a TALENT rating to SE settings, or grant a SOCIAL category bonus or penalty to TALENT in a faction's file.

[NanoDingo]

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
It's something that is implemented in SMAC/X, but just barely. You can assign a TALENT rating to SE settings, or grant a SOCIAL category bonus or penalty to TALENT in a faction's file.

Cool. Eudaimonic could grant a +1 TALENT rating.

[#endgame]

Welcome back Rubin. We need more Morganite threads to counter Frankychan's spam :P.

[Kataphraktoi]

Originally posted by binTravkin


If you have both the Adobe Photoshop and SMACX opened simultaneously you can have such nice screens without problems without any adjusting of color settings.
Just open Adobe first.

thanks couldnt get the other tips on screenies to work.photoshop did the job. you would not believe why i need it though lol . ill have to email you a copy of it,just for kicks

[Mart]

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
... You can assign a TALENT rating to SE settings...

Yes, it can be useful for modding with alphax.txt replacements.
What is lacking, however, is that this Talent is not on the list of social effects, it just does not show on the social engineering screen. It may be sometimes confusing.

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by #endgame
Welcome back Rubin. We need more Morganite threads to counter Frankychan's spam :P.

Hey, I'm just trying to show everyone here the wisdom of following the good Chairman.

Which reminds me, I have to go back to that game and re-do the Planet Bustering.


.....and I don't spam. All my posts are of the highest quality.

[CEO Aaron]

Yeah, I'll back up my arch-nemesis FrankyChan in saying that I would never characterize his posts as spam. While his plebean anti-commerce demagoguery is as misguided as it is infuriating, his tales of conquest are quite entertaining.

[#endgame]

I never said spam wasn't entertaining. I do find them good reading.