16-11-2003 23:02									#1
	Its time for Civ3 fans and SMAC fane to unite. Get a bigger avatar today!

I am a Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri player but I also play and have Civilization 3 and the two expansions. What if Firaxis would release a new expansion for Civ3 which would be the add-on of Alpha Centauri?

Could you imagine starting out a small civilization located on the earth than building it into an empire than building the rocket that takes you to Alpha Centauri ware you enter into all new situation. You would pick up the story of Alpha Centauri and it factions being formed. What an epic game this would be. The possibilities are limitless. There would no turn base game like it. And at long last there would be a uniting of Civilization and Alpha Centauri. And along with that we would become one large game community.

I wonder how we could make such a suggestion to Firaxis?

If your interested you might try this:

http://www.firaxis.com/contact_gamefeedback.cfm

	16-11-2003 23:04									#2
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not again...

	17-11-2003 00:26									#3
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Don't you start out as a small civ on earth in CivII and go to AC?
Can't you then play out your SMAC scenario?
What about ToT, did they not provide something like that?

I am not trying to shoot it down, as I am always interested in all things Civ, including SMAC/X.

	17-11-2003 04:24									#4
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wow SMAC and Civ 3 merging into one game, that would weird and awesome all at the same time. I could only imagine how fun that would be

	17-11-2003 04:38									#5
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Believe it or not others have had the same thought and made the same posts...

Sounds great, yes, but all we can do is wait.

	17-11-2003 05:05									#6
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Actually, it'd be rather pointless, because not much would carry over from one game to the next.

	17-11-2003 05:10									#7
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The problem is that SMAC is a very different game from civ. Not only in plot but just in the actual rules and design of the game. Maybe the next game should be a true epic game were they plan from the beginning to make it continuous but merging the two now wouldn't work.

	17-11-2003 13:19									#8
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I think that it could be done. The space race victory does take you to AC. I often play Civ3 and then after beating it, I play SMAC, trying to simulate the same civ I play on Civ3.

	17-11-2003 19:21									#9
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hi ,

, we should move on to a new start , not using the old smac stuff , C3C is great in that aspect , putting smac in it now would be a step back , .......

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	17-11-2003 20:23									#10
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We should update SMAC. The gaem is cool, but a little old. Make there be another expansion, one that lets crosovers to a new version of SMAC.

	17-11-2003 23:12									#11
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If I'm not mistaken, this was an idea Firaxis threw around long ago...

	20-11-2003 03:14									#12
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A DL suggesting things and not just spamming? Things are changing...

	20-11-2003 04:05									#13
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Ok, what is a DL?

	20-11-2003 07:50									#14
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It usually mean Double Login.

	20-11-2003 10:28									#15
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I'd like to see Civ and CtP unite (put the best of both in a single game).

	21-11-2003 05:01									#16
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I wouldn't mind a revamped SMAC but to add it to the end of CIV 3, Think I'll pass on that.

This thread does remind me of my first reaction of playing SMAC hough. You mean I built the rocket ship, came out all the way to Alpha Centauri, And I GOT'A START OVER? WTF? But then again I never was a big SMAC fan.

	21-11-2003 22:24									#17
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Was not it done in the Test of Time? It had an option to play on Alpha Centauri after landing on it. You played both worlds in the same turn. It was rather lame.

	25-11-2003 05:14									#18
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I think that a better angle to attack this from is NOT by doing a SMAC addon to Civ3, but by taking many of the EXCELLENT features which appeared in SMAC, and incorporating them into Civ3! These would mostly include:

1) Including ALL the Diplomatic options available from SMAC-including the equivalent of the 'Planetary Council' after you build the UN!

2) The ability to station your units in allied cities!!!

Thats really all I have to add to this particular subject !

Yours,
The_Aussie_Lurker.