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Googlie
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Commanding Officer, CRYPTEIA
Apr 1999
time: 21:17
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This is a SMAX Game
Players (in turn order) are:
Hive - illiria ( daniel@kaesmayr.net )
UoP - Admiral ( elaccent@cstone.net )
PKs - wgabrie ( wgabrie@optonline.net )
Pirates - FlameFlash ( flameflash@mac.com )
AI is:
Sparta
Gaians
Drones
Map is Standard, 30% to 50% water, wet, average native life, hilly
You start with 3 colony pods and 3 scouts (Pirates with 3 seapods and 2 Unity gunships).
Game Set-up Rules:
Higher Goal Allow Victory by Transcendence - OK
Total War Allow Victory by Conquest - OK
Peace in Our Time Allow Diplomatic Victory - OK
Mine, All Mine Allow Economic Victory - OK
One for All Allow Cooperative Victory - OK
Do or Die Don't restart eliminated players - OK
Look First Flexible starting locations - OK
Tech Stagnation Slower rate of research discoveries - NO
Spoils of War Steal tech when conquer base - OK
Blind Research Cannot set precise research goals - NO
Intense Rivalry [AI] Opponents more aggressive - NO
No Unity Survey - World Map not visible - OK
No Unity Scattering Supply Pods only at landing sites - NO (i.e. have pod scattering)
Bell Curve - No Random Events - OK
Time Warp Accelerated Start - NO
Iron Man Save/Restore restricted to exit - n/a in PBEMs
Randomize Personalities - NO
Randomize Social agendas - NO
Gameplay Rules:
• Communications - none till contact, obtain commlink, or build Empath Guild
• Total freedom in Design Workshop (upgrades anytime, during turn or on-field,
• Retro-engineering - OK, except for using the probe rover chassis before discovering Doc. Mobility
• SE switches "quickies" forbidden - (obviously you can experiment to see what effect various SE choices have, but cannot change, play moves, then change back in the same turn)
• Council notification - immediate broadcast to all players (Post in the thread and e-mail to all immediately by player who has called elections, citing candidates and votes. After each player's turn, post in the thread the running totals)
• Stockpiling energy in Qs anytime - OK
• Crawlers Upgrade anytime - OK
• Probe actions: Must choose vendetta option when probing other players, rebuke if a pactmate (OK to probe teammate at any time)
• Using the AI - Cannot use the AI to bribe on council votes nor to demand withdrawal of units
• Cannot use the right click feature for multiple drop moves to extend range (ie limited to 8 tiles unless owning the Space Elevator SP)
• Cannot use the 'set waypoint' feature for automatic worm hunting/lifecycle enhancements
• Must 'Accept' or 'Decline' an offered Pact or Treaty that the other player has indicated 'Accepted' before exiting the diplo box and playing the turn (i.e. no accepting pending treaties/pacts *after* declaring vendetta in the same turn )
• Cannot use the F4 feature (or the bases feature of the F2 screen) to change an infiltrated faction's workers to specialists
Good luck all
Passwords have been sent to all
2101 has been sent to illiria
Googlie
Last edited by Googlie on 19-01-2002 at 05:34
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Googlie
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Commanding Officer, CRYPTEIA
Apr 1999
time: 21:17
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Ah, yes - it's a *feature* of scenarioed PBEMs.
The gameturn uses the factions that were last loaded on your .ini file from the last game you played, in slot order.
So if, for example, - well let's look at the actual ...
The game set-up order is:
Gaians
Hive
UoP
Sparta
PKs
Pirates
Drones
(the order in which factions appear in the selection box when choosing a faction)
There are 2 cures
First is to enter the alphacentauri.ini before you open the game and just edit the seven factions to that list
Or, for those not comfortable with that, just, before opening the turn, start a new game with those seven factions, land the pod, then exit. Those then will be the faction graphics that load when you load the turn.
Most of us just get used to seeing Aki's face when dealing with the Pirates, or Marr as the Chairman, or whatever (and, of course, it won't be the same graphics every time you play a turn - it'll depend on the last game saved)
G.
So whatever the last game you played was, your .ini file remembers it's order, and then assigns those graphics when it opens this one
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19-01-2002 05:22
arrr...)
I hate it when I rhyme! 
)
Glad to know it! Though it's sad that the other games you've participated in haven't been that good. Has anybody else had that problem in the past?
The good news is that the games I'm currantly in here at apolyton have been doing fine. 1 Mac and 2 PC games.
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