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Chaos Theory
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Missouri / Misery; CC
Oct 2002
time: 04:36
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I'm working on a challenging scenario against the AI. Here's the background I've come up for it:
5 factions successfully landed from the Unity: Morgan and his cronies, Yang and his trusting laborers, Aki Zeta-5 and the remnants of the Unity research crew, Svensgaard and the remnants of the Spartans, and against all odds, Miriam and those in the damaged 7th landing pod.
Over the first twenty years on Planet, Morgan and Yang met and formed a business alliance, with Morgan carefully developing Yang's laborers' initiative without inducing any desire for freedom, and with Yang training Morgan's followers in asceticism.
Svensgaard claimed the infinite seas and started preying on Morgan's commercial transports. In return, Morgan has sent some decoy transports, rigged to explode when boarded.
Miriam has decided that Yang and Aki Zeta-5 are abominations for their inhumanity and must be wiped off the face of Eden. She's not too fond of Morgan, either, for being a demon's ally. Svensgaard has carefully avoided attacking Miriam's transports, content to not be a target of her fanaticism.
Aki Zeta-5 has more or less carved out a peaceful niche for herself and her followers, but now is threatened by Miriam. In response to that, she has allied with Yang, on the principle that her enemy's enemy is her friend.
In the year 2120, Foreman Domai in Laborer's Throng successfully revolted against Yang's rule and formed the Free Drone faction. Although the base was quickly reconquered, with nerve gas, Domai and his fellow laborers fled to a remote region of Planet to found Utopia.
Domai views Aki Zeta-5 as dangerous, with her conflicting notion of Utopia, but has found a friend in Svensgaard, a fellow freedom-lover.
Taking advantage of the disruption caused by Domai, Asa Wright, head of Quality Assurance in Morgan Industries, capitalized on a plan she had been working on since Planetfall. She and some fellow hackers stole all of Morgan's technology and incited drones throughout his empire, while smuggling out supplies with which to found a freer, more cooperative society.
Roze's actions of course made enemies of both Yang and Morgan, but her love of Democracy has drawn some of Miriam's wrath, as well.
The starting year of the scenario will be about 2130, with several techs already known to each faction. The player will play the Data Angels, against the boosted AI opponents Miriam, Morgan, Yang, Svensgaard, Domai, and Aki Zeta-5.
I'd like any feedback on this description of the scenario, and I'd also like someone to help me test its difficulty when I have a preliminary version ready in a day or two.
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Zeiter
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I'll test it! This sounds like an interesting plot...
I always wished that SMAC had a feature that let a base revolt and create a new faction, instead of just siding with an existing one. Sure, that newly created faction could have a friendly disposition towards a faction, and could have a randomly picked idealism, but they would be a new faction that would start out the game only with that base's energy reserves and units, and the technology from the faction that it revolted from. In such a case, probe-raping would not be a problem, this game feature would be a lot like real life, and it would add another angle of strategy to the game. All that would be needed next would be to make revolting easier (say that any starving citizen turns into a drone, in addition to the previous requirement of the base rioting for at least two turns.) If starving conquered cities was no longer feasible, it would make conquering and holding cities MUCH more difficult. You'd have to rush police units into the new city ASAP, and if you tried to wage a war in FM, unless you had a lot of energy devoted to psych, forget about it!
Come on, we want SMAC 2 NOW!
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Zeiter
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Yep, I am up to the challenge. I've been looking for a really challenging game against the AI for a while.
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Enigma_Nova
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CT, an AA gives 5 rows when you cash it in, not 50 minerals.
- Enigma
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Illuminatus
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Salvaging Unity Fusion Core
Jul 2003
time: 06:36
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Ah Chaos Theory, just letting you know that I tested your scenario even more. I see you too gave satelittes to AIs. I have a few questions: why did you change so much tech types ( I mean moving DAP to conque tech)? Was just because it seemed logical or it had some deeper motives? It is around 2215 now, and AIs are progressing at various ways - so much diffrent that even tech trade with them is very profitable. Thanks to fact that almost every faction is researching other thing, I managed to reach Will to Power+Homo Superior + Advanced Spaceflight by now.  Even as I got faster to Homo Superior with that rate than to Orbital Spaceflight  Those AIs. Also, with some heavy loans and crawler upgrading I took all projects from the 5th level up (last project that AI grabbed before me was Supercollider- by Believers), and now I have CV, CBA, HSA, TLR, DT and other stuff:  . I suspect that I will transcend within 35 years at this rate. Also, I am at war with Miriam, Sven and Morgan. I have˙t spent any effort to my defences, since AIs were busy battling themselves, except that I had some naval forces securing waters around my teritory. I started subjugation of AIs, after Miriam started to move her airforce towards me (nice work on increasing belief attack bonus  ). Now I am chop'n'locing Mir, and she will be gone completely within 10 years (has tons of sea bases around  ). Then I will go and subjugate Morgan to secure homeland from possible AI air attacks against crawlers.
Nice work on balancing factions. None of the factions has been winning in their wars, most of them would battle forever without any major gains. Miriam sieged Aki (and commited so much atrocities against Morgan and Aki that she wouldn`t see any trade for an eon or two). Other factions also engaged in wars without any progress, except a temporary gain. I guess this is what you wanted. I stayed out of it for as long as I could, and earned by trading techs to them . Nice work
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Enigma_Nova
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Then care to explain THIS?
Open it up to see a Datalinks entry for an AA under planned.
 Attachment: aaplanned.zip
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05-06-2004 22:38
. Interesting scenario 
You will receive feedback tommorow.
), and I am still the weakest faction (MY 2161).
This is the SP I miss the most. :´( .
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