16-06-2004 14:00									#91
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That sounds !!

	16-06-2004 17:48									#92
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Personally I consider one of the strong points of SMAC the well identifiable characters of the different factions, and the strong ideologies behind them. Randomizing those would remove that entire aspect, and make writing roleplay stories involving the AI factions a mess. Also we've already voted for the three AI factions (Yang, Lal and Zak), and I assume people had those faction's ideologies, agressiveness, strength and SE preferences in mind when voting on them. So changing them now would more or less make that poll invalid.

	16-06-2004 21:31									#93
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quote: Originally posted by Googlie Well, we could have Buster randomize AI personalities Thus you might be talking to Lal but find that he has Yang's SE choices and preferences. You won't know until you fall foul of him (well, you'd see his agenda from the profile after you met him) That'd spice the game up (especially with the usual smax graphics bug - you wouldn't know who you were talking to!!)

Actually, I am against this. It would be unrealistic to see Zak defending power, Hive vouching for FM and that sort of things. Better said leave it all open, since this would ruin game atmosphere.

	17-06-2004 01:03									#94
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The state of the game, from perusing the threads, is that the game needs a mod now to set out what has been decided, see what needs to be done abd to co-ordinate with Buster to get it prepared

	17-06-2004 03:56									#95
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I agree, it needs a mod. HongHu set up the poll in the nominations thread, but no-one's posted it. I can't, since I'm standing.

	17-06-2004 10:49									#96
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Ok, ok. We get the hint, Drogue.

	18-06-2004 00:22									#97
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quote: Originally posted by Drogue I agree, it needs a mod. HongHu set up the poll in the nominations thread, but no-one's posted it. I can't, since I'm standing.

We can't vote if we are the nominee? Oops. Can you vote for others then?

	18-06-2004 04:10									#98
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I say everyone can vote and be merry.

	18-06-2004 20:06									#99
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Skanky is right. However, if someone wins by one vote...

	18-06-2004 20:37									#100
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We can vote! I just thought if I started a poll to choose the mod, and won it, it might look like I had an unfair advantage. Voting for yourself is fine. Starting a poll gives you the opportunity of the first post, and first voting, and so I'd rather when I'm standing, that someone else starts the poll, just to be safe.

As it is Poll under way, and I'm winning

	18-06-2004 20:38									#101
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Who wouldn't support you Drogue anyway ?

	18-06-2004 20:39									#102
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The other people who are running?

* Method coughs *

	18-06-2004 20:43									#103
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You definitely lost my vote now

	18-06-2004 22:35									#104
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quote: Who's the game moderator? Who are the private forum moderators? obstructor for Gaia? Skanky Burns for Sparta. Who for the other factions? I guess Tass' super-mod powers (editing posts, changing poll options, etc...) should be removed after the current ACDG ends and he becomes a mere mortal Morganite. Contact MarkG/DanQ for new fora and civgroups. Make some extra propaganda for the next ACDG (after everything else is decided and things can get going. Otherwise newbies will join but lose interest again before the game has even started.) What did I all forget to include?

When getting the forums, can the narrators/mods get an forum too. Somewhere where all the stories and such can be archived and narrators/mods can organise things without worrying about accidently mentioning secret information on a particular faction.

Also what's the story behind the new ACDGIII? Are we starting afresh or going to try have some story continuty from the ACDGII?

	18-06-2004 22:38									#105
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I would prefer a fresh story since continues one has too many plot holes.

	18-06-2004 22:58									#106
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How if this whole thing was setup as a contest by the emperor of an galactic civilisation.

The idea is there are 7 factions that have falling onto bad times. The emperor has offered them the solar system alpha centauri, however they will have to destory all the other factions to claim the system. This offer was only made for the emperor's amusement and is also being broadcast to the entertainment media networks.

	18-06-2004 23:28									#107
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I hope this is joke.

	18-06-2004 23:37									#108
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*shrugs*

I thought it would have been fun making up the commericals every now and again.

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Also it would explain losing all our techs again without being the now generic SMAC plot.

	18-06-2004 23:46									#109
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Well I like the generic SMAC plot

	18-06-2004 23:52									#110
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So we pretend we were on the unity again and it crashed etc?

	18-06-2004 23:56									#111
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Why not? It makes a lot of things easier. New combinations are possible, with no need to carry over old roleplay.

	19-06-2004 00:21									#112
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Yes. Earth is gone. We can't forever live in the past.

	19-06-2004 00:26									#113
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Maybe it could be a parallel universe Earth with a parallel universe Unity...

	19-06-2004 01:54									#114
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enough as it is...

	19-06-2004 04:28									#115
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We could just have planet flowering, and have to leave again, and split into factions aboard ship when something goes wrong again. And crash on a new planet. Planet Buster

	19-06-2004 04:31									#116
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That sounds so... definitive... for the fate of that planet, I must say.

	19-06-2004 04:35									#117
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True, but according to the SMAC or SMAX story, that's what happens. We could go a different route though? Given enough time I could create 4 new factions, and play those, but I think we'd rather get it started. Let the narrator pick a new story though, would be fun to see what how the plot turns out

	19-06-2004 05:02									#118
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I have now finished creating the set - up including map, human and AI starting positions etc.

Basically from my view it is ready to go.
The alphax.ini modifications still need to be made though so I have forwarded the scenario to Googlie to request his input on it and that the mods are made.

Once I have the modified ini file it should be ready to go after OI have played it a bit forward to ensure there are none of the usual scenario glitches such as difficulty level mismatches, missing/wrong starting techs, incorrect/missing protypes etc.

I am personally quite pleased with the set up and believe it should make a fair and challenging playing ground, where the AI at least for a while will have a role to play and everyone should have a chance.

	19-06-2004 05:56									#119
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quote: Originally posted by buster The alphax.ini modifications still need to be made though so I have forwarded the scenario to Googlie to request his input on it and that the mods are made.

I haven't opened the scenario yet - nor read the covering e-mail as soon as I realized its content (as doing so would automatically disqualify me from being a member of the Morgan - or any - team)

I have garnered insufficient votes in the CMN Poll to be considered as a co-moderator, so am in a bit of a quandary

Plus ..... Sparta needs team members, and that's the faction I play most often in PBEMs ..................

	19-06-2004 06:14									#120
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quote: Originally posted by buster The alphax.ini modifications still need to be made though

We've decided not to use any alphax.txt modifications to avoid all the hassle.

quote: missing/wrong starting techs

Ah yes, that reminds me. Is every faction (except the Gaians of course) able to select Centauri Ecology as their first tech to research? IIRC that was a minor issue we preferred, but I forgot to put it in the summary.

Thanks for your effort buster.

quote: Originally posted by Googlie I have garnered insufficient votes in the CMN Poll to be considered as a co-moderator, so am in a bit of a quandary

Oh. I saw a post of you that you were negotiating with the Morganites again for a shareholder system you liked more, so I assumed you were no longer interested in the Moderator post. Therefore I didn't vote for you.