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Anonymous10/12/25, 22:26No.2170480Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
just finished a round of Alpha Centauri. seems as good an excuse as any to create a thread about it
>It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people!
- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
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Anon10/13/25, 03:36No.2170600
I've played this game on and off since it came out decades ago and it is still just as enjoyable as ever
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Anon10/13/25, 11:00No.2170746
did you doomstack deathspheres?
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Anon10/13/25, 16:59No.2171014
playing Gaia and sending out wave after wave of Mind Worms to crush Sister Miriam
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Anon10/13/25, 17:04No.2171021
playing Believers and sending out wave after wave of Belivers to crush the worm slut
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Anon10/13/25, 19:47No.2171198
reading the wiki when suddenly
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Anon10/13/25, 20:58No.2171245
is there any Deirdre Skye x Mindworms smut? asking for a friend
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Anon10/14/25, 02:04No.2171435
Santiago always seemed like the odd one out to me, every other faction leader can be traced to a significant strain of thought when the game came out late 90s. I guess she's supposed to be a survivalist? Really wooden characterization compared to all the others, no depth to her
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Anon10/14/25, 04:28No.2171510
Words words words
Fuck off band-kid
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Anon10/14/25, 22:39No.2172323
Can anyone explain in depth Yang's philosophy?
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Anon10/15/25, 00:22No.2172365
Is nerve stapping a good idea late game?
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Anon10/15/25, 05:03No.2172527
When I first played this game at 10 or 11 I thought that Yang was a disembodied head bionically attached to some sort of mechanical flying unit. I just kind of accepted it was a thing without thinking about it for years, only later did I look at it and realize it's just an oversized collar looking like a miner.
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Anon10/15/25, 23:12No.2173325
>start new game as Free Drones
>get bullied mercilessly by pirates and aliens for decades
>cuck to their demands just to survive
>200 years later picrel
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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Anon10/16/25, 10:32No.2173619
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Anon10/16/25, 11:01No.2173624
>discount yang
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Anon10/16/25, 18:36No.2174050
dammit I wish I could get into it but the interface is just too rough for me - moving around and all that is a pain. and before you say anything I'll have (You) know that I'm in my mid 30s. are there any mods or anything to tighten up the controls? trust me - I want to like this game.
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Anon10/17/25, 13:56No.2174813
why could they never surpass the first SMAC?
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Anon10/19/25, 06:10No.2177121
I BELIEVE
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Anon10/21/25, 00:11No.2179350
>notice I can ask the data'jaks to vote for me as supreme ruler, with only the cyberneticists as the third human faction
>think that "aw sweet I can win the game"
>game informs me that I must wipe out the alien scum first
so close yet so far. also maybe I should give up thought control since these irrational w*men don't seem to like it
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Anon10/21/25, 04:53No.2179461
>behind in tech and population
>Yang declares war on me
>manage to hold him off with navy and some needlejets parked in a strategically placed airbase I built on an islet next to his continent
>start terraforming a bunch of emtpy space in advance while I build a batch of colony pods to pop boom and double my empire
>finally get everything set up around my new bases and start pop booming
>get all of them to population 7
>power graph spikes above everyone else's (screenshot was taken at this point)
>switch back to Planned + Knowledge, get shard weapons tech while Yang still has chaos
>decide to take advantage of my now doubled industrial capacity and tech lead over Yang
>build a few dozen shard amphibious invaders and shard battery artillery
>invade and easily crush units, taking over 3 of his bases including one with The Virtual World that he conquered from Zakharov
>he starts building dozens of probe teams
>I build a few of my own quickly in each of the conquered bases
>he sends waves of them at each of the bases and despite perimeter defense + sensor arrays + higher morale, my probe units start dropping like flies
>he uses mind control to retake all bases AND MY UNITS INSIDE THEM
>taunts me
>is now building shard units of his own
>my power graph nosedivesI'm seriously considering ragequitting (again) right now bros, I want to cry
