SMAC 444 (AI experiment)

[misswang123]

COOL.

[dontrolle]

Hi,

First-time poster here. Just decided to revive my old SMAC addiction and wanted to try out Kyrub's excellent-sounding patch. However, the download link seems to alphacentauri2.info seems to be dead?

Anybody know of a mirror?

Thanks in advance!

[gwillybj]

Hi,

First-time poster here. Just decided to revive my old SMAC addiction and wanted to try out Kyrub's excellent-sounding patch. However, the download link seems to alphacentauri2.info seems to be dead?

Anybody know of a mirror?

Thanks in advance!

It's only temporary. They'll be back up soon.

[dontrolle]

It's only temporary. They'll be back up soon.

Splendid! And thanks for the quick response! I'll check back later. :-)

[The Odor]

from march to november? it is more likely permanent than temporary, alas...

[dontrolle]

Actually, it does seem that they are up again now.

[sentry33]

nice.

[ilovesmac365]

Hi MWQ

Thanks for feedback. I am now rarely seen here on apolyton.
Most of the patch discussion has moved to http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?board=13.0

kyrub

Alphacentauri2 forum is now down, error message is "SMF was unable to connect to the database"

SMAC 444 - AI patch version [p]

Description: New release of AI patch for SMAC - 17/5/2014

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=260

New features

AI Terraforming
- AI got a basic lesson in advanced terraforming (boreholes, condensers, less raising terrain)
- it builds no more bunkers
- it builds denser sensor array network

AI crawlers
- AI builds now tends to build crawlers earlier and slightly more of them
- AI crawls more intelligently its resources

AI Social Engineering
- the patch includes an emergency fix of the worst parts of social engineering code
- AI now understands that pacifist drones are a major problem

AI buidling units
- AI spreads quicklier on oceans
- Morgan has got new incentive to spread quickly
- AIs build less of probes, bar Miriam
- a lot more AAA defense
- AI now likes rovers and choppers

Alphacentauri2 download section is down, error message is "SMF was unable to connect to the database"

There's no download on the Wayback machine and nothing on the Internet Archive either
(there is a copy of the page, but no download:
web.archive.org/web/20220814061449/http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=260

(KYRUB'S PROFILE HERE SAYS HAS NOT LOGGED ON SINCE 2014)
I hope maybe someone who has the mod could consider uploading it to the Internet Archive maybe:
( https://archive.org/create )

Thank you anyone