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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
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Anon10/27/25, 11:43No.2187593
>My gift to industry is the wage worker, or Wagie. Specially designed for labor, the Wagie's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot >feel pain?
– Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
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Anon10/27/25, 12:57No.2187643
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Anon10/27/25, 18:37No.2187972
>Hey Foreman Domai
>You call your faction the Free Drones yet you still have drone riots. Curious.
>- Turning Point Chiron
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Anon10/27/25, 23:59No.2188449
>my infiltrator tells me the Usurpers are making at least one planetbuster
should I be worried?
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Anon10/30/25, 20:15No.2193289
just won a game on Librarian difficulty as Zacharov. will probably try Transcend next time. also nerve gas really does a number on enemy cities. excellent for de-ayyy-ification
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Anon11/02/25, 13:38No.2197946
I BELIEVE IN YOU
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Anon11/03/25, 11:47No.2200300
Everyone gets stuck on the act part
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Anon11/03/25, 22:47No.2202100
Anons, it has been like 5 five years since I played SMAC. Any suggestions about playing a new game?. I used to play with the Proctor or the Cyborgs, but I am open to other factions as long as I can get the ropes again.
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Anon11/04/25, 17:13No.2204304
>make peace/pacts with all my fellow humans
>vendetta on all the ayys
>start building nerve gas needlers
oh yeah it's all coming together
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Anon11/04/25, 22:44No.2205919
>- Chairman Sheng-ji YangI make sure to squash this slant eye bug as early as I can in the game because he is a constant source of conflict and is able to churn out infantry like a motherfucker. Used a planet buster on me too, which resulted in my razing his cities and raping/murdering the populations.
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Anon11/05/25, 20:01No.2209193
Are there any let's play's of this game on youtube that aren't made by mouth-breathing retards?As a mouth-breathing retard myself, I'd like to see someone actually play this game properly, explaining their strategy, why they pick certain techs, switching SE choices etc.
I finished one campaign recently with Aki the robo girl, but i only played on Talent.
I had the thinker mod installed, and I guess that made it a bit harder?
But I'd really like to see someone good play this
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Anon11/07/25, 14:45No.2214768
Favorite faction and why? Mechanics only so no larp reasons please.
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Anon11/08/25, 00:38No.2216774
holy brap I did it
>16x16 map, abundant lifeforms, transcend difficulty, gaians
>only me and yang spawn
>give yang everything he wants so I can expand in peace
>yang launches "surprise" attack in 2212 AD
>manage to hold off the initial attack
>gear up for nerve gas missile troops and scout meat shields
>march into yang's territory, decimating his cities as I go
>get very close to victory
>worms.txt
>lots of fucking worms.txt because I turned native lifeforms up to max
>have to spend several turns just clearing worms that are in the way of yang's last cities
>finally manage to get enough gas rovers close enough to capture his last city in one turn
in retrospect I probably shouldn't have chosen the Gaians. there's not enough time to spec into worm tech for it to be useful. but hey, my first Transcend victory!
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Anon11/10/25, 00:53No.2223396
omw to another 16x16 Transcend win. this time as the Free Drones
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Anon11/11/25, 14:14No.2228503
looking for an old screencap about how Miriam is the one who wants better for her people, anyone have it?
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Anon11/11/25, 16:54No.2228954
I still own this on CD. That's how old I am
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Anon11/13/25, 12:47No.2234188
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfYKbKdlBM&t=730s
Isaac Asimov speaks about necessity of planet wide federal council to address global problems in 1989Does it not sound naive? Even in a game like SMAC you can bribe whole nations or representatives and we all know how UN can't do shit against a certain country that has enough power or small allies to block resolutions.
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Anon11/15/25, 15:20No.2239341
guys is organic superlube safe for sex? asking for a friend
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Anon11/16/25, 01:15No.2240570
I want to cum inside Deidre
I want to make tiny worm children with Deidre
I want Deidre to surrender all her worldly possessions to Planet
thank you
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Anon11/16/25, 02:31No.2240728
I love the game but it always makes me feel so overwhelmed after 100 turns or so.
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Anon11/16/25, 20:22No.2242213
another gas extermination win. these runs are fast but also they're getting kinda boring because the solution is always to gas everyone
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Anon11/16/25, 21:25No.2242392
Transcend difficulty is stupidly and unfairly hard.
AI units start appearing near my borders even though I hit Ctrl+K to reveal map and discover they had no means to get to my landmass because they don't even have foils yet.
By the time I get to 10 cities, fucking Yang has neeedlejets and hundreds of ground units, while I'm struggling to create a few units of missile infantry.I'm just going to pre-emptively nuke these cockroaches.
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Anon11/16/25, 21:35No.2242409
>filtered
>better cheat!
>still filtered
lmao
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Anon11/17/25, 00:09No.2242707
Fine, I'll reinstall it again, Jesus
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Anon11/17/25, 00:29No.2242739
This game is too intense. One bad decision or miscalculation can set you back immensely.I get anxious everytime Yang, Miriam or whoever is the dominant faction leader wants to contact me.
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Anon11/18/25, 01:13No.2245267
Please tell me there's a way to field all 14 factions in a single game.
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Anon11/18/25, 14:07No.2246348
when i was a kid and this game was new i had a big tech tree poster on my wall next to my monitor, it's just not the same playing it without it
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Anon11/19/25, 11:00No.2248646
Does infantry units get a damage boost when attacking units inside bases?
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Anon11/19/25, 11:33No.2248695
Does pressing start new game start a new game?
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Anon11/19/25, 13:10No.2248827
>actual chatgpt response
lel
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Anon11/21/25, 16:00No.2252844
I'm a zoomer and I really want to enjoy this game. I've played a lot of older games, mostly from the 2000s, so this one is a bit tough to get into. Civ 3 and 4 were easy to handle, but this one feels harder. Even with PRACX and Thinker, I still find it difficult to invest my time in the game. Any advice, uncle?
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Anon11/23/25, 23:26No.2257678
playing my first Big Boy game on Transcend difficulty. that is, on the normal map of Planet. my strategy is
>peacemaxxing
>crawlermaxxing
I'm sending out supply foils all over the map to nab all the sea bonus squares. so far things are progressing smoothly
I just need to make morgan and the spartans stop fighting since both are my neighbors
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Anon11/24/25, 20:17No.2259570
I had never played any 4X game before, nothing like SMAC ever, yet I had no problem figuring how to navigate the UI in short time.I don't understand how some people have so much trouble with it, but then I'm not retarded.
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Anon11/25/25, 08:41No.2260719
Haven't played it for a long time.
But try to get the secret project like the "The Merchant Exchange" ASAP as Morgan nothing else matters.
Setup a shitton of cheap supply crawlers for energy and solar panels etc, before you reach that secret project.You'll be printing energy like you are the Federal reserve on cocaine/amphetamine.
And you can just churn out units like its nothing by insta building them.Energy is just fun coupons for you at this stage.Total Morgan domination.
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Anon11/26/25, 20:35No.2264212
What's the nicest thing an AI ally did for you in SMAC? For me it was when during our joint war against Lal, Morgan gifted me a rover and garrison infantry. Both of them with the top weaponry and armor respectively at the time.The manual didn't even say AI could do that, I was blown away by that feature.
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Anon12/01/25, 01:18No.2272341
the worm slut is catching up to me, but my research and industry is so far ahead I'll probably ascend without her being able to do anything about it besides destroying some of my crawlers
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Anon12/02/25, 03:41No.2274241
Why do I keep getting my ass handed to me in Transcend difficulty?
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Anon12/03/25, 22:43No.2277956
I think I've figured out a usecase for supply jets: to hurry construction of special projects over large distances
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Anon12/03/25, 23:35No.2278002
first Transcend/Transcend victory on the normal map!
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Anon12/04/25, 07:34No.2278425
>completely wipe out several cities because I'm too lazy to manage them and don't want governors
>2 turns after the great genocide, fungus pops up in all of my main cities and fifteen demon boils comes out of each spawned fungus tiles
>mindrape.jpg
they fucking completely destroyed a size 14 colony in a single turn holy fuck, the stacks I managed to kill gave me 200 power each because winning one psi battle kills the entire stack though. Also it's kind of stupid how the planet doesn't give a shit about you blowing craters out of it if you revoke the UN charter. I'm guessing the thinker mod fixes this?
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Anon12/04/25, 11:34No.2278595
My terraforming method is building the respective improvement in bonus tiles then "forest and forget" everything else.Is that the best way to do it?
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Anon12/05/25, 06:15No.2280707
The reason why the Planet cares about nerve gas is because it is a hive mind ecosystem and humanity isn't, so seeing humans gas each other makes us look like insane vermin.
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Anon12/05/25, 09:39No.2280815
the ways of Planet are an enigma
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Anon12/05/25, 19:15No.2281614
Name one thing more satisfying than carpet bombing your opponents with fungal cruise missiles.
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Anon12/07/25, 19:58No.2285630
I've never played this but every single thread I've read about it holds it up as the holy grail of 4x AND somehow this strategy game had the deepest lore known to videogames.
Does the game hold up? Civ 5 was my first civ.
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Anon12/07/25, 22:26No.2285930
>yet another single-base loss
I'm starting to think this idea is actually impossible, at least on Transcend difficulty. on the other hand I pissed off one of my neighbors, the Gaians, by going Planned. seems one important element is not just cucking to everyone's demands, but to also cuck to your neighbors' ideologies
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Anon12/09/25, 15:08No.2288664
>immediately declares war in the very first contact we make
>rejects all my attempts at contact for the rest of the gameWell
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Anon12/23/25, 00:43No.2305384
worm bump
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Anon12/26/25, 00:49No.2308178
Personally I grew up in survivalist circles back in the day and Santiago was always my go to.
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Anon12/29/25, 01:14No.2310665
https://youtu.be/qM5AdmJiAa4i want to have sex with miriam
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Anon01/03/26, 02:11No.2314336
humans status: interfering
solution: gas
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Anon01/04/26, 16:43No.2315218
is it not possible to detonate planetbusters wherever like you can with tectonic and fungal payloads?
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Anon01/12/26, 21:14No.2320524
I'm playing the game for the first time after seeing this thread, pretty fun so far. Most of my experience with the series is from civ 5 so I essentially learned how to play x4s wrong, but I think I'm doing a decent job atleast on the second easiest difficulty.
btw Yang just declared war on everyone is this normal?
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Anon01/13/26, 02:04No.2320674
What's the best unofficial patch?
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Anon01/14/26, 01:58No.2321393
>atrocities
>can't use nerve gas (period)
>can't nerve staple spess nogs
>nukes
>getting rid of shit AI cities
>using covid
>however using bioweapons that terrify targets into paralysis and then CHEW THROUGH THEIR SKULLS TO LAY EGGS WHICH THEN EAT THEIR BRAINS WHILE STILL ALIVE AND AWARE
>nah that's perfectly ok
Fuck the Gaian's and the fucking Cult, pulling mindworms should be a atrocity worthy of catching every planet buster to ever exist.
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Anon01/14/26, 02:45No.2321415
I wonder how difficult the Thinker mod is.I'd certainly get raped since I can't even beat the vanilla game on Transcend.
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Anon01/15/26, 21:34No.2322252
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Anon01/19/26, 01:44No.2324144
just read a script for a short movie that has about 1/20 chance of getting made. it's about humans sending a ship from one star system to another, with the twist being that they're going *to* Earth. if it gets picked I'm going to try and put SMAC references in it
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Anon01/21/26, 19:41No.2325814
How to get into this game. Never played it before. Any hd mods o algo
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Anon01/21/26, 20:39No.2325843
Doesn't the game itself say that mind worms act as police from fear factor alone? Citizens are worried they'd be fed to them, and this indirectly lowers crime. It's not that they're feeding shoplifters to them, it's the implication.
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Anon01/22/26, 11:00No.2326100
Should I skip Civ II to play AC or I need to knew the fundamentals first? (Already played the later games)