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Googlie
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Commanding Officer, CRYPTEIA
Apr 1999
time: 21:13
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Hi Mixam - I second mark13's welcome.
You can download a copy of the tech tree (smax version) from the Spartan Chronicles fiction site here
(Of course the new smax techs will be in it, but I don't think any were ever linked as prerequisites for an old smac tech - eyeballing the chart it seems that they all link to themselves - so you could just score out the smax ones.)
I do have a hard copy of the smac-only tech tree, which presupposes I once had the spreadsheet - if I find it I'll zip it and hang it on the SC site.
And as an avid ex-civII'er (who still plays occasionally) I think you'll like the diplomacy and workshop features, especially if you are a sci-fi fan, but you do lose the sense of history unfolding that we have with Civ.
And elsewhere I have griped incessantly about the smac/x ending. It sucks, in a word. No sense of your whole civilization working together to get your spaceship built, perhaps even launching after a smaller, slower, competitor. In smac you just build the winning project in 1 turn - or buy it outright if you have accumulated the cash. Where's the fun in that?
So it (IMHO) lacks some of the addictiveness of CivII (but I still spend an average of 4 hours a day on it, with the MP games, the fiction and the forums.)
G.
[This message has been edited by Googlie (edited May 09, 2001).]
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gwillybj
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Eurytion Mining Colony: 165°C dayside, 165°F nightside
Mar 2001
time: 00:13
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quote:
Originally posted by Closey on 05-09-2001 03:27 AM
Yup, there's a nice big poster and a manual in the box when you get the 'regular' version and not the bargain one. I think you can buy them from EA for a few bucks, someone here did that a while ago.. think it was sboog. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here. 
About turning off auto resarch.. When you start a new game, go with custom rules and de-select blind research.
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Yes, it was sboog who ordered the manual from EA. It took about eight weeks. I wonder whatever happened to sboog  ...A worthwhile purchase is Prima's Official Strategy Guide, which is a very nice combination, compilation, and reformatting of the information in all of the .txt files and in-game help (the "Datalinks"). ISBN 0761515844. Cover price US$19.99. I got mine at a discount bookstore for $3.99 . The sections are: Hints, Tips, Facts & Formulas; Strategies; Technologies; Base Facilities; Secret Projects; Units; Appendices. Each section is further divided, giving the basic information and some basic hints and tips specific to each Tech, Facility, Project, and Unit (including chassis, weapons, equipment, armor, reactors, and special abilities). In the appendices are helps about customizing. And there is a pull-out poster of the standard-size Map of Planet.
And, for the whole bird with all the fixings and dessert too, there is The Mother of All SMAC Guides: Vel's Strat Guide - Version 2.0  (this is the one for Alpha Centauri not Alien Crossfire).------------
After the generals have planned,
After the armies have mustered,
After the artillery has spoken,
After the armor has maneuvered,
A weary foot soldier still must stand on the enemy's land and say "THIS IS MINE!" before the war can be won.
[This message has been edited by gwillybj (edited May 11, 2001).]
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