Alpha Centari Strategems

[Corsair]

The trick here is to give loans whenever asked for them- they will always benefit you, and your rivals seem to have infinite coffers.

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[ophidian]

Alpha Centauri as in the Alpha Centauri? Sid Miere's Alpha Centauri?

I haven't played that in AGES. Wow. Was a nice game though. I play Galactic Civilizations II.

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[Exile]

I tried googling it, first that came up on the list was this thread.

What kind of game is it exactly?

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[Guest]

It's an *old* 4x game, and is pretty much a sci-fi version of Civilization (II? III?).

[Zapp]

I almost always go as Santiago. It's been awhile so I forget the specifics, but I know that without fail I always set the map to be mostly water and I immediately go about dominating whatever island I find myself on. Sometimes I've shared with a few people, but the early military advantage really pays off; Hardened vs Green?

Then I just consolidate my power and go for a war of attrition. Treaties with as many people as I can manage, and then when someone asks for my help in a war I make a choice and kinda ad lib it from there.

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[Unseelie]

Guys, guys

So, gravedig, whatever.

But SMAC and SMAX is on GOG these days.

whcih means.
Basically, that we should gravedig this thread and have some fun

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[Zelot]

what is gog?

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[Rodent]

Good old games(gog).

You can probably figure out what their main business is.

[Unseelie]

Good Old Games is basically a steam subscription style thing, that ports old games to new systems, with their own dosbox conversion or whatever they need to run on windows a trillion, and hands you said game for like 5, ten bucks.

Alpha Centarui is currently 50% off, which means, 2.99 american.

For serious.

My bad, though, SMAX isn't on gog.

But alpha centauri that'll never go away, you can download it over and over, drm free, etc, with tech support, for 3 dolla.

effing do it!

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