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Helium Pond
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Los Anheles, California, Good Ole U S of A
Nov 1999
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Wow, COOL! Thanks for posting, Dan, I'm thrilled to know Firaxis is still thinking about us. But you left out any news about the most important question....
What about the patch?????
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Helium Pond
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Los Anheles, California, Good Ole U S of A
Nov 1999
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Thanks Dan. It's so heartening to get some news from the company.
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Alex2001
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Ried i. I., Austria
Dec 1999
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I also want the complete story, faction profiles, etc., but will you post them also in GERMAN LANGUAGE?
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Genaciv
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Austin, Texas, USA
Jan 2000
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That would be nice.. i'm sure they'd have to hire a translator to do that, though..
Lets see.. German, Italian, Spanish, French.. any other languages? Perhaps Portuguese..
Most of the non-English speakers that I know that play SMAC speak those languages.. oh well..
- Genaciv
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Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
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The Metropolis known as Hunt Valley
Mar 2000
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Well, I don't speak any other languages (elementary, broken Spanish doesn't count, does it?) and I'm hesitant to just run everything through a translation program, as it will probably botch many of the words.
An interesting idea, and one which Shiny used with their Messiah pages, was asking fans to translate for them. Once we get the main pages up, we'll talk more about translation possibilities. Do we have any volunteers here who would want to do translation?
One caution on this is that the datalinks are in a big database, and they would be the hardest to translate. Since the database was constructed mainly from the existent text files found in the Alpha game directory, it's possible I could do it that way, but it would take quite some time.
Thanks for the input,
Dan Magaha
Web Wizard
Firaxis Games, Inc.
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Meisman
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Heidelberg, Germany
Jan 2000
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Well, from June 6th on I have about 2 months of spare time. I'd be interested to do a translation into German. So, what do you think Dan, how much time would it take for a single person to translate all of that?
If anybody else wants to join in, he/she'd be more than welcome.
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Nimrod13
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Realms of Germania
May 2000
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Well, I just happen to have time (more than four months) so count me in for the German part.
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Enigma
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Midland, MI, USA
Feb 2000
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Dan,
Any news on the SMACX v 3.0/SMAC v5.0 patch?
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Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
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The Metropolis known as Hunt Valley
Mar 2000
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Hey everyone,
Our SMAC site is finally ready for public consumption. Apologies to all, it was actually ready last week and I just forgot to let everyone know.
Check it out at: www.firaxis.com/smac
We've got a fully-implemented online version of the datalinks, some cool concept art for some native lifeforms that never made it into the game, full downloadable versions of the Journey to Centauri stories, faction profiles, and more.
I'm always looking for fan submissions as well. If you have original stories, fan art, or a fansite you want us to put up, please feel free to email it to me at webmaster@firaxis.com.
Regards,
Dan Magaha
Web Wizard
Firaxis Games, Inc.
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korn469
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Poetic Justic
Apr 1999
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Dan,
have i got a story for you 
it's called the spartan chronicles and though i do not actively write for it anymore i think it is without a doubt the longest peice of collective fan fiction for SMAC, i am truly amazed by it's lifespan and i think that it is a SMAC fan fiction classic
it is in the apolyton fan fiction forum as how to get it this might be of help
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Enigma,
Glad to see that there is some interest in Spartan Chronicles! It's been around since last July, so it is getting downright venerable!
The much-vaunted Googlie has gone to the trouble of putting SC in a nice, neat series of Word documents. He also had divided it up into Chapters, which roughly coincide with major plot turns. This significant effort is at his web site http://go.to/googlie under the Download section.
At well over 500 posts (about 590, actually), putting SC into text format was no small task. The Good Googlie's edition of SC is current through January 31st. After that you are fated to pull the thread.
Maybe, if we ask nicely, Googlie will whip up another tome of SC for us!
Hydro
P.S. - Googlie also has SC maps. So in case you always wondered where in the heck are features like the Fungal Wall, the sad city of Plex Anthill, the craters that used to be Ironhome and Parade Ground, the ruins of Morgan Bank, or the horde of now liberated Hive cities, just stop by and download it! If you're interested I can e-mail you older copies, too (if they aren't on Googlie's site).
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ps the site looks good i am just now exploring it though
korn469
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Gregurabi
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Lorain, OH, USA
Jun 1999
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Mistakes ahoy!
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Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
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The Metropolis known as Hunt Valley
Mar 2000
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quote:
Originally posted by Fistleaf on 05-27-2000 02:59 AM
There are plenty of mistakes. Old logos and such. Firaxis simply took old stuff and pasted them together.
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This is true, but given the resources I had at my disposal, I hope you won't hold it against me or the site. A great deal of the original source content I had hoped to use had vanished, and trying to get someone at EA to send that sort of thing to me was nigh impossible. Not to mention that I had to ask people for information about a project they haven't been working on in close to a year or more, so recreating things wasn't as straightforward as it may seem.
In short, I did the best I could with what I had to work with. The standard disclaimer applies: if you have anything to contribute, I'd be glad to add it to what we have.
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How about making the factions data and native life available for download?
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If there is enough demand, I could certainly do that, but what on earth for? If you just mean the images, that's probably not a problem, I was considering doing that anyway, but if you meant the HTML and everything else, that's a different story...
Dan
Web Wizard
Firaxis Games, Inc.
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Uatu
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Monterrey,NL,Mexico
May 2000
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I can do some of the translation to Spanish.
For the record,
I'm from Mexico, and use a english version of SMAC, if that helps in some way.
Greetings
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), no Alien Crossfire expansion.
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