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Tin Cow posted 03-23-99 08:05 PM ET
Usually I get a diplomatic or transcend victory, because I can't be bothered to take the time to conquer the entire world, but this time things shaped up differently. I was playing as a custom faction with a combo of Gaian and PK attributes and stuck into the Hive slot (I hate playing with Yang).
Started out as any normal game, I was on the biggest continent with Miriam and everyone else was on their own small island. I put the hurt on Miriam real bad and she surrendered to me, though I eventually knocked her out a few turns later because I wanted her land. So here I am sitting on the largest continent BY FAR and I'm getting along swimmingly with everyone. Spartans are harassing the PKs who I have a Pact with, so I decide to start going to work on them... mainly naval attacks on their sea bases. Then I get into a vendetta with the University, do the same to him by taking out his sea bases. By this time my main island was incredibly well developed and I was leading every catagory except military (was playing it defensively to build, except for my cruiser fleet to contain my enemies).
Gaians start to come on strong, but I don't really want to piss them off, so I pay off PKs and Morgans to go to war against them. I eventually join in and do more sea base sniping... starving the bases and then building colony pods to abandon them. The whole time I have been Governor by an easy margin with the help of my allies (PK and Morgan).
I make peace with everyone but Spartans and decide to let them fight for a bit while I build up even stronger. I get my first PB, but as usual have no intension of using it. Then about 15 turns later I look at the military advisor screen and notice that only ONE other faction has PBs, and that's the PKs who are my allies. They only have one anyway. So kind of as a joke I propose a repeal of the UN Charter and to my great surprise it PASSES!
At that moment I decided to win by nuking everything in existance. I only had the one PB at that moment, but I used it anyway, right on Gaian's capital city, with its 4 large neighbors. BOOM! There goes 4 SPs!
I gear up my continent for PB production, and within about 15 turns I am pumping out 2-3 PBs each year. Deirdre's continent literally ceases to exist... not a square of land left. I send one PB down to the Spartan's homeland and take out all but 2 of their cities in one blow. Then I notice my allies the Morgans have their bases clustered so close, 2 PBs would kill them. So I demand money on threat of cancelling the Pact, and THEY cancel the pact for me. Thanks guys! BOOM! BOOM! 5 factions left now, 2 with barely anything left.
I spit out a few submarine carriers to help my PBs hit any target on the planet, and add a few X Graviton Deathspheres (Graviton Gravships with Nerve Gas) to mop up the few 1-3 pop cities that aren't worth wasting a nuke on.
Eventually it's only me, PKs, and 1 Gaian city left and I decide to make my move on my stupidly unsuspecting ally. All my bases have tacheon fields and AAA Neutronium Sentinels, plus I've got about 10 Orbital Defense Pods to boot. PKs have 1 PB missile still and no Pods. Not much of a challenge. However, since they were so good and loyal to me the whole game, I decide to make their death as painless as possible. I wait for 5 turns and build up a force of 12 PBs, with all their cities within range of at least one of them. Then I begin to Corner the Glbal Energy Market just for the hell of it... only cost 6k anyway at that point. I make some ridiculous demands from the PKs and they cancel the Pact... THIRTY of their needlejets which were stationed in my cities are relocated back home, over 20 of them to their capital, where their PB is as well.
BOOM! Adios 3 more SPs. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Game over.
I know this may sound very cruel and sedistic, but I've never had more fun in SMAC than when the atrocities were off and I committed mass acts of genocide. Long live the Planet Buster!
Rong posted 03-23-99 10:03 PM ET
Man! I thought there was a point to this long story.
yin26 posted 03-23-99 10:07 PM ET
Rong, you're funny, man.
You hate me because I critique the game.
Now you get pages and pages of some guy enjoying the game and that's all you have to say.
You're a confused litte SMAC player.
Tin Cow posted 03-23-99 10:25 PM ET
I was just saying that I've discovered that nuking people can be very fun. I don't think the subject line insinuates that there is a meaning to the post. It's just me being happy turing Chiron into a water planet.
yin26 posted 03-23-99 11:28 PM ET
Tin Cow,
The rest of us got it. Rong is just angry that another person can like the game.
He thought he was the only one.
MikeH II posted 03-24-99 06:25 AM ET
Great story, I find rooting the other factions out foxhole by foxhole, but I am playing as the Spartans.
CaptComal posted 03-24-99 02:00 PM ET
Yin ... please ... comment on the game and on the ideas -- not the person. Thanks.
Bluemax posted 03-24-99 02:26 PM ET
Tin Cow,
Did it ever occur to you that the electronic worlds you create in SMAC could be an alternate reality. That SMAC people could have dreams, ambitions, hopes, and feelings, just like you or I? And, you get great pleasure out of "nuking" them!
The next thing your gonna' tell me is that it's okay to make dog food out of unicorns.
jedijon posted 03-24-99 04:34 PM ET
Well, dogfood from unicorns is OK if you remember to remove the horn first. Don't want the poor dog to choke.
Rong posted 03-24-99 04:52 PM ET
Hehe, if I can get a nickle every time I've been attacked on the net...
Tin Cow, I felt a little disappointed that the story didn't climax as I had anticipated. Still a fun story though.
fkloster posted 03-24-99 05:17 PM ET
Bluemax, what in the hell are you talking about? Killing millions of innocent souls and grinding imaginary Unicorns into hamburger with no sedatives is what life is all about isn't it? I vote we (yin and I) begin a public flogging of all crazy people who play SMAC and take acid daily! (wait a minute, I'm one of those guys!)
Bluemax posted 03-26-99 01:45 PM ET
Fkloster -
SMAC - Sado Masichist Acid Crazies?
By the way, Vendetta upon you and Yin, I just put a Unicorn 14-28-11~e(3) into service and I will not be messed with.
By the way, one of the things that bothers me about the game is the inability to harras the AI. I try to contact so-and-so, and they are ingoring my transmissions. When I ignore so-and-so's transmission, they still pop up with a message.
Tin Cow posted 03-26-99 04:00 PM ET
Bluemax,
Actually, I firmly believe that everything that goes on in SMAC is real. That's exactly why I nuked and nerve gassed everyone. After all, they were all going to do it to me, weren't they? Now at least my people can live in peace and harmony and go to the mall and buy synthmetal furbies for Christmas.
It's utopia on my planet now! (Except for the scattered radiation which has given all the children babboon asses.)
sandworm posted 03-26-99 04:14 PM ET
Mindworm boil action figures this Xmas, Furbies are out. They slither, swim, fly and can "boreholes" in solid synthmetal.
Try the new twist on the old rock/paper/scissors - Furbies/mindworms/flame gun squad.
Furbies kill squads - boredom
squads kill worms, and worms have been genetically altered (Centauri genetics) to eat furbies.
They're making it into a board game.
Bluemax posted 03-26-99 05:06 PM ET
Tin Cow -
Apparently, your opponents have cause to nerve gas and nuke you.
Why can't we all just get along?
By the way, tonight I'm going to see if I can use probe teams to destroy a pressure dome, or destroy the production of a pressure dome. Then, I will use a former to lower the land next to my opponent's city and drown all the electron citizens. The agony of these electronic citizens watching for several turns, knowing that they will die and there's nothing they can do about it will be exquisite. None of this quick death crap. Nuke and nerve gas are too painless, too merciful. If you're gonna be cruel, do it with class.
Revenge is a dish best served cold - Ancient Klingon prover.
Tin Cow posted 03-26-99 06:53 PM ET
On a serious note, that reminded me that I owned a sea city once which was undefended. It was attacked by an Isle of the Deep, which destroyed the Pressure Dome.... and nothing happened. Shouldn't my city have sunk or something?
Bluemax posted 03-29-99 09:47 AM ET
Tin Cow -
One would think the city would sink (hee hee).
Try drilling a bunch of boreholes and other eco damage to get sea level to rise. This might flood it.
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Author	Topic: Most fun game I've played yet. (AKA: Let's hear it for genocide!)
Tin Cow	posted 03-23-99 08:05 PM ET Usually I get a diplomatic or transcend victory, because I can't be bothered to take the time to conquer the entire world, but this time things shaped up differently. I was playing as a custom faction with a combo of Gaian and PK attributes and stuck into the Hive slot (I hate playing with Yang). Started out as any normal game, I was on the biggest continent with Miriam and everyone else was on their own small island. I put the hurt on Miriam real bad and she surrendered to me, though I eventually knocked her out a few turns later because I wanted her land. So here I am sitting on the largest continent BY FAR and I'm getting along swimmingly with everyone. Spartans are harassing the PKs who I have a Pact with, so I decide to start going to work on them... mainly naval attacks on their sea bases. Then I get into a vendetta with the University, do the same to him by taking out his sea bases. By this time my main island was incredibly well developed and I was leading every catagory except military (was playing it defensively to build, except for my cruiser fleet to contain my enemies). Gaians start to come on strong, but I don't really want to piss them off, so I pay off PKs and Morgans to go to war against them. I eventually join in and do more sea base sniping... starving the bases and then building colony pods to abandon them. The whole time I have been Governor by an easy margin with the help of my allies (PK and Morgan). I make peace with everyone but Spartans and decide to let them fight for a bit while I build up even stronger. I get my first PB, but as usual have no intension of using it. Then about 15 turns later I look at the military advisor screen and notice that only ONE other faction has PBs, and that's the PKs who are my allies. They only have one anyway. So kind of as a joke I propose a repeal of the UN Charter and to my great surprise it PASSES! At that moment I decided to win by nuking everything in existance. I only had the one PB at that moment, but I used it anyway, right on Gaian's capital city, with its 4 large neighbors. BOOM! There goes 4 SPs! I gear up my continent for PB production, and within about 15 turns I am pumping out 2-3 PBs each year. Deirdre's continent literally ceases to exist... not a square of land left. I send one PB down to the Spartan's homeland and take out all but 2 of their cities in one blow. Then I notice my allies the Morgans have their bases clustered so close, 2 PBs would kill them. So I demand money on threat of cancelling the Pact, and THEY cancel the pact for me. Thanks guys! BOOM! BOOM! 5 factions left now, 2 with barely anything left. I spit out a few submarine carriers to help my PBs hit any target on the planet, and add a few X Graviton Deathspheres (Graviton Gravships with Nerve Gas) to mop up the few 1-3 pop cities that aren't worth wasting a nuke on. Eventually it's only me, PKs, and 1 Gaian city left and I decide to make my move on my stupidly unsuspecting ally. All my bases have tacheon fields and AAA Neutronium Sentinels, plus I've got about 10 Orbital Defense Pods to boot. PKs have 1 PB missile still and no Pods. Not much of a challenge. However, since they were so good and loyal to me the whole game, I decide to make their death as painless as possible. I wait for 5 turns and build up a force of 12 PBs, with all their cities within range of at least one of them. Then I begin to Corner the Glbal Energy Market just for the hell of it... only cost 6k anyway at that point. I make some ridiculous demands from the PKs and they cancel the Pact... THIRTY of their needlejets which were stationed in my cities are relocated back home, over 20 of them to their capital, where their PB is as well. BOOM! Adios 3 more SPs. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Game over. I know this may sound very cruel and sedistic, but I've never had more fun in SMAC than when the atrocities were off and I committed mass acts of genocide. Long live the Planet Buster!
Rong	posted 03-23-99 10:03 PM ET Man! I thought there was a point to this long story.
yin26	posted 03-23-99 10:07 PM ET Rong, you're funny, man. You hate me because I critique the game. Now you get pages and pages of some guy enjoying the game and that's all you have to say. You're a confused litte SMAC player.
Tin Cow	posted 03-23-99 10:25 PM ET I was just saying that I've discovered that nuking people can be very fun. I don't think the subject line insinuates that there is a meaning to the post. It's just me being happy turing Chiron into a water planet.
yin26	posted 03-23-99 11:28 PM ET Tin Cow, The rest of us got it. Rong is just angry that another person can like the game. He thought he was the only one.
MikeH II	posted 03-24-99 06:25 AM ET Great story, I find rooting the other factions out foxhole by foxhole, but I am playing as the Spartans.
CaptComal	posted 03-24-99 02:00 PM ET Yin ... please ... comment on the game and on the ideas -- not the person. Thanks.
Bluemax	posted 03-24-99 02:26 PM ET Tin Cow, Did it ever occur to you that the electronic worlds you create in SMAC could be an alternate reality. That SMAC people could have dreams, ambitions, hopes, and feelings, just like you or I? And, you get great pleasure out of "nuking" them! The next thing your gonna' tell me is that it's okay to make dog food out of unicorns.
jedijon	posted 03-24-99 04:34 PM ET Well, dogfood from unicorns is OK if you remember to remove the horn first. Don't want the poor dog to choke.
Rong	posted 03-24-99 04:52 PM ET Hehe, if I can get a nickle every time I've been attacked on the net... Tin Cow, I felt a little disappointed that the story didn't climax as I had anticipated. Still a fun story though.
fkloster	posted 03-24-99 05:17 PM ET Bluemax, what in the hell are you talking about? Killing millions of innocent souls and grinding imaginary Unicorns into hamburger with no sedatives is what life is all about isn't it? I vote we (yin and I) begin a public flogging of all crazy people who play SMAC and take acid daily! (wait a minute, I'm one of those guys!)
Bluemax	posted 03-26-99 01:45 PM ET Fkloster - SMAC - Sado Masichist Acid Crazies? By the way, Vendetta upon you and Yin, I just put a Unicorn 14-28-11~e(3) into service and I will not be messed with. By the way, one of the things that bothers me about the game is the inability to harras the AI. I try to contact so-and-so, and they are ingoring my transmissions. When I ignore so-and-so's transmission, they still pop up with a message.
Tin Cow	posted 03-26-99 04:00 PM ET Bluemax, Actually, I firmly believe that everything that goes on in SMAC is real. That's exactly why I nuked and nerve gassed everyone. After all, they were all going to do it to me, weren't they? Now at least my people can live in peace and harmony and go to the mall and buy synthmetal furbies for Christmas. It's utopia on my planet now! (Except for the scattered radiation which has given all the children babboon asses.)
sandworm	posted 03-26-99 04:14 PM ET Mindworm boil action figures this Xmas, Furbies are out. They slither, swim, fly and can "boreholes" in solid synthmetal. Try the new twist on the old rock/paper/scissors - Furbies/mindworms/flame gun squad. Furbies kill squads - boredom squads kill worms, and worms have been genetically altered (Centauri genetics) to eat furbies. They're making it into a board game.
Bluemax	posted 03-26-99 05:06 PM ET Tin Cow - Apparently, your opponents have cause to nerve gas and nuke you. Why can't we all just get along? By the way, tonight I'm going to see if I can use probe teams to destroy a pressure dome, or destroy the production of a pressure dome. Then, I will use a former to lower the land next to my opponent's city and drown all the electron citizens. The agony of these electronic citizens watching for several turns, knowing that they will die and there's nothing they can do about it will be exquisite. None of this quick death crap. Nuke and nerve gas are too painless, too merciful. If you're gonna be cruel, do it with class. Revenge is a dish best served cold - Ancient Klingon prover.
Tin Cow	posted 03-26-99 06:53 PM ET On a serious note, that reminded me that I owned a sea city once which was undefended. It was attacked by an Isle of the Deep, which destroyed the Pressure Dome.... and nothing happened. Shouldn't my city have sunk or something?
Bluemax	posted 03-29-99 09:47 AM ET Tin Cow - One would think the city would sink (hee hee). Try drilling a bunch of boreholes and other eco damage to get sea level to rise. This might flood it.