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ForcePacifist posted 09-14-99 01:15 PM ET
aliens that act suspiciously human, is smac in danger of becoming like star trek, with lots of lumpy head humanoids wandering about, i think most of the fun in Civ1-2 ctp and Alpha Centauri (avoid personality cults) is the uniquely human way the human factions war and polotic with each other. a few mind worms and a planetary mind are acceptable, becouse in Alpha Centauri, they are not favtions. But in Smacx, were now going to have lumpy headed suspiciously human like 'aliens' runnin around tryin to out human the humans. i think that spoils the wonderfully crafted feel of the game. why not have some kind of galactic federation composed of species who agree to fly their ships on the same plane all the time, or or some kind of of giant planet zappin metal- moon thing, or or some kinda-kinda big fire breathin lizard. okay, maybe human mass behaviour aint so unique, but we have no real right to think it isnt. Aliens should not play the uniquely human game of factional grouping and warfare.
there, ive said it.
thanx 4 readin.
if u have.
SMACTrek posted 09-15-99 03:43 PM ET
Dissimilar weapons and units might be interesting. On the other hand, aliens that don't speak my language would be dang hard to understand during diplomatic contact.
LdZpln posted 09-19-99 08:36 PM ET
ForcePacifist: see my response in the "Arghh me matey...." thread.
LdZpln
Y posted 09-20-99 12:27 AM ET
Aliens would scare me to death.
sir_penguin posted 09-20-99 11:36 PM ET
Would they scare you as much if they were green humans with long fingers? I think I saw a Star Trek TNG episode with non-humanoid bad guys with weird ships and they were a lot scarier than the regular aliens. But I see no reason for there to not be humanoid beings. I mean, it works for us, pretty well. Similar planet, similar circumstances, near-same time period, and voila. But what are the chances of that?
Anyway, the language thing is hard to work around, but we're humans and we need it in whatever language we speak, so we should perhaps suspend our disbelief so that we can play SMAC X. Different-looking weapons would be good, but not different techs (which would probably be to hard to program and somewhat unfair--maybe if they just called them different things?). There is a limit to physics, no matter who you are.
After all that, IMHO we don't need aliens, but it adds the possibility for new twists to the story and increases the possibilities for a wild imagination.
Hmmm...I feel...lighter...somehow
SP
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Author	Topic: smacx-do we need aliens
ForcePacifist	posted 09-14-99 01:15 PM ET aliens that act suspiciously human, is smac in danger of becoming like star trek, with lots of lumpy head humanoids wandering about, i think most of the fun in Civ1-2 ctp and Alpha Centauri (avoid personality cults) is the uniquely human way the human factions war and polotic with each other. a few mind worms and a planetary mind are acceptable, becouse in Alpha Centauri, they are not favtions. But in Smacx, were now going to have lumpy headed suspiciously human like 'aliens' runnin around tryin to out human the humans. i think that spoils the wonderfully crafted feel of the game. why not have some kind of galactic federation composed of species who agree to fly their ships on the same plane all the time, or or some kind of of giant planet zappin metal- moon thing, or or some kinda-kinda big fire breathin lizard. okay, maybe human mass behaviour aint so unique, but we have no real right to think it isnt. Aliens should not play the uniquely human game of factional grouping and warfare. there, ive said it. thanx 4 readin. if u have.
SMACTrek	posted 09-15-99 03:43 PM ET Dissimilar weapons and units might be interesting. On the other hand, aliens that don't speak my language would be dang hard to understand during diplomatic contact.
LdZpln	posted 09-19-99 08:36 PM ET ForcePacifist: see my response in the "Arghh me matey...." thread. LdZpln
Y	posted 09-20-99 12:27 AM ET Aliens would scare me to death.
sir_penguin	posted 09-20-99 11:36 PM ET Would they scare you as much if they were green humans with long fingers? I think I saw a Star Trek TNG episode with non-humanoid bad guys with weird ships and they were a lot scarier than the regular aliens. But I see no reason for there to not be humanoid beings. I mean, it works for us, pretty well. Similar planet, similar circumstances, near-same time period, and voila. But what are the chances of that? Anyway, the language thing is hard to work around, but we're humans and we need it in whatever language we speak, so we should perhaps suspend our disbelief so that we can play SMAC X. Different-looking weapons would be good, but not different techs (which would probably be to hard to program and somewhat unfair--maybe if they just called them different things?). There is a limit to physics, no matter who you are. After all that, IMHO we don't need aliens, but it adds the possibility for new twists to the story and increases the possibilities for a wild imagination. Hmmm...I feel...lighter...somehow SP