So...anyone ever played it? It's not really old, some few years i think, but in gaming terms that's like a pensioner.

It's hands down the best Civ game i ever played; and i played the lot. Unsurprisingmy it's by the hand of the original designer of the Civ games, Sid Meier.


I dug it up a week ago, and i'm already back into digging it mucho, and atm owning pretty hard too, got 3 rival factions who have sworn a pact to serve after i crushed their pathetic resistance with my advanced weaponry. The other 3 are no treat, so this game will see me be victorious. Anyways; if you happen to see it in a budget version somewhere in a store (that's how i got it), or can acquire it in other non-specified ways, do it!

basically, the story takes off where Civ ended; the spaceships to the alpha centauri quadrant. 7 factions rise from the new settlers; each with their specific advantages and disadvantages. The factions:

->technologists (aka The University)
->militarists (aka Spartan Federation)
->socialists/communists (aka The Hive)
->green fraction (aka Gaia's stepdaughters)
->capitalists (aka Morgan Industries)
->fundamentalists (aka The Lord's Believers
->diplomats (aka The Peacekeeping forces)

I usually play university; cos of their fast technological advancement. I seem to always end up with a commie society however: police state, plus planned economics and thought control as a future society choice.


anyways, get the game!! pacts, treaties, weapons of mass destruction, planet councils, bribing ppl for votes, fancy technologies, cool quotes, good voice-acting!! It's got it all.

Some quotes that come with the discovery of new technologies:



Industrial Base

Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten
future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.

-- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
"The Ethics of Greed"


Advanced Military Algorithms

Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?

-- Col. Corazon Santiago,

(^that one was especially for you Satis hehe )



Intellectual Integrity

Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of
evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.

-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"



Matter Transmission

The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat. I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say.

-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"See How They Run"


Homo Superior

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche,
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra", Datalinks



The Planetary Datalinks

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"

yes. Ok what ever. I played and have it, but couldn't understand it in the slightest... so meh... maybe once im through the games that I'm currently playing, i'll get it out and try figure it out.

w00000t!! Make sure you do...it's not THAT hard to understand really, and if you need any questiosn just ask me, i've just about crammed the 200 page manual by heart by now. Btw, do you have the expansion pack too by any chance?

Im a good-old Civ veteran, i tend to play initially as an Expansionist, then Socially and Culturally, and finally, Scientific ending in Militaristic.

I alwyas play with focus on scientific stuff, you tend to be more vulnerable at the start but after a whiel you're so much more advanced than the others that you can land a nuke on their sorry heads. Ofcourse, they all will refuse to speak to you then and stuff, but still.

I've played it too 'ox. It's a good game, most definitely. As with you, I play scientific, then industry, and then build on military.

Usually by now the enemy has expanded.... but what use are musketeers against howitzers/tanks/etc [can't remember all the names in Alpha Centauri].

I did like the way of creating military units. You can customise your own with whatever weapons/armour/chassis you have.

I missed out on Centuri, but i mastered Civ II, Call to Power and Civ III.

Oh and for those of you which want to buy Civ III, dont! Its the same as CivII, only with prettier graphics.