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Alpha7500 posted 05-07-99 08:07 PM ET
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; Sid Meier's ALPHA CENTAURI
;
; FACTION FILE: The Galactic Empire
;
; Made with ACEdit (c)1999 ANX at http://www.sidgames.com/acedit
;
; For use this Faction file select load from
; faction select in the game and write... empire
;
#EMPIRE
The Galactic Empire, The Empire, Imperials, M, 1, Vader, M, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1,
TECH, Integ, SOCIAL, +MORALE, SOCIAL, +POLICE, SOCIAL, ---PLANET, SOCIAL, --SUPPORT, FACILITY, 27, UNIT, 2, PSI, 100, DRONE, 4, ENERGY, 50, HURRY, 110, COMMERCE, -1, MORALE, 2, MINDCONTROL, 0
Values, Power, MORALE
Politics, Democratic, nil
Imperial, Imperi.
Derva, Vindar, Derva's Grave
Lord, competent, destructive, organized, cruel,
evil
expand the Galactic Empire
expand the Galactic Empire
spreading the Dark Side
spreading the Dark Side
turn good to evil
worshiping ancient Dark Lords Of The Sith
worshiping ancient Dark Lords Of The Sith
spreading evil ethics
Dark Force, M1
Empire, M1
expansion of the Empire, M1
Galactic Tax, M1
spreading the Dark Side
Stormtroopers
the Galactic Imperial Code
#BASES
The Death Star
The Death Star II
Hoth Base
Yavin4 Conquest
Ewok Captivity
AntiRebel Base1
AntiRebel Base2
AntiRebel Base3
AntiRevel Base4
Tarkin's Tarnish
Vader's Vengence
Palpintine's Power
Dagohbah Conquered
Expanding Emipre
Galactic Strength
Stromtrooper's Resort
Snowtrooper's Resort
Jabba's Palace
Throne Room1
Throne Room2
Throne Room3
The Dark Side
Galactic Claw
Rancor Park
Dewback Resort
Kessel Mines
Emperor's Resort
#END
#WATERBASES
WatertrooperBase
Empire's Navy
Naval Base5
FalconCenter
Aqua Destroyer
Imperial Class Aqua Destroyer
Super Aqua Destroyer
Dark Bay
#END
#BLURB
Never underestimate the Dark Side of the Force. The Dark Side
is all, the Dark side is true power, the Dark Side is the destiny
of the galaxy. Never underestimate the power of the Dark Side.
^
^
^ -- Lord Darth Vader
^ "Empire Ethics"
^
^
#DATALINKS1
^LEADER: {Lord Darth Vader}
^BACKGROUND: {galaxy far, far away, Lord of The Galactic Empire}
^AGENDA: {take star system for Empire}
^TECH: {Intellwctual Integrity}
^
#DATALINKS2
^+1 MORALE: {troops are dedicated and unthinking}
^+1 POLICE: {citzens willing to obey all orders from overpowering Empire}
^-3 PLANET: {careless about value of life}
^-2 SUPPORT: {citizens don't like the Empire}
^110% Hurry Costs: {workers overworked}
^+50% Psi Combat: {in tune to the force}
^-1 Commerce Rate: {bad relations with other factions}
#FACTIONTRUCE
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"This war is unessesary as of the present. You shall cease your
rebellion at once and call a truce with the great Empire."
"Of course. This war is unneeded."
"HA! You shall be crushed under the Light Side!"
#FACTIONTREATY
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"Our factions should make peace and prosper under the dark side,
$TITLE0 $NAME1, do you agree with my offering?"
"Yes, we can prosper under your Force, $NAME3"
"Certainly not! You are nothing but pure evil!"

# ; This line must remain at end of file
is it balenced??
Schoop posted 05-08-99 08:34 AM ET
balanced isn't the problem, you've got about 14 modifiers to the faction, and I THINK the game will only read the first eight. Someone else might have to confirm this, but you might have to trim it a bit.
Al Gore Rythm posted 05-08-99 10:47 AM ET
Regardless, they're still imbalanced.
100% PSI is just way too high, my friend. Even if another faction gets both the Neural Amplifier and the Dream Twister you are still more powerful in PSI combat. Your faction would never have to build anything besides Mindworms to easily conquer.
Immunity to Mindcontrol is also powerful. With it, you can gain one of the greatest strengths of the Believers, immunity to having your units just plain get up and turn around to attack you.
+1 Morale mixed with +1 Police gives you (essentially) the two key bonuses of the Spartans. With +1 Police you can easily hit +3 with Police State. Allowing you to have 3 units as police and the police effect doubles. This negates the effect of drones quite a bit.
Finally, you forgot to mention they also have a free Command Center at each base. Which means they have +3 Morale on land at all times (and +4 at a base.) Since land is easily the most important of all territories throughout the game, this is just about as good as having a straight-foreward +3 Morale. With this I could easily hit Fundy and be nigh-invincible.
-1 Commerce, although it can be a problem, this is only for the peaceful faction. War-monger factions, by their own nature, tend to not use much commerce anyway. So while the PKs, Morganites and UoP may depend upon those research credits, war-mongers such as this faction do not.
-2 Support, except for Miriam and Yang (and possibly Sparta) I believe every faction uses Democracy, and so has this very effect. Although you can maintain only one unit per base for free, with all their advantages they'd only need one or two to annihlate inferior units anyway.
-3 Planet, this can hurt alot. But it alone cannot really be enough to stop all these advantages. While Planet may hurt them, they have a +3 Morale setting and 100% on Psi combat. Worms and all other units of Planet are no threat to them.
110% Hurry Costs, virtually a non-factor. When a person wants to hurry something badly enough, they're gonna do it anyway. Penalty or no.
Drone for every four, This is a heavy weakness. But it is easily alleviated by the +1 Police. With Police State they can both knock out the weakness of support as well as have super police powers. With such super-police they can easily put down all the new drones that would appear.
So I just see way too many advantages, not too many weaknesses. Or, if those weaknesses are present, they are alleviated by other advantages.
Also, I don't think (correct me here) that "Imperi" is the plural version of Imperial. I think it's just "Imperials." Usually things that end with an "i" or a "ii" when they're plural have "us" when singular. Such as Virus (Virii.)
eNo posted 05-08-99 03:56 PM ET
Schoop's right. There's a limit on how many modifiers you can have.
The Hawk posted 05-08-99 04:34 PM ET
It is hard to understand ur faction since it is written that way. Something like
Moral +2
Growth +1
Tech -3
is easier to read. I know thats what ur faction file looks like but it is hard to read.
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Author	Topic: NEW FACTION: THE EMPIRE
Alpha7500	posted 05-07-99 08:07 PM ET ; ; Sid Meier's ALPHA CENTAURI ; ; FACTION FILE: The Galactic Empire ; ; Made with ACEdit (c)1999 ANX at http://www.sidgames.com/acedit ; ; For use this Faction file select load from ; faction select in the game and write... empire ; #EMPIRE The Galactic Empire, The Empire, Imperials, M, 1, Vader, M, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, TECH, Integ, SOCIAL, +MORALE, SOCIAL, +POLICE, SOCIAL, ---PLANET, SOCIAL, --SUPPORT, FACILITY, 27, UNIT, 2, PSI, 100, DRONE, 4, ENERGY, 50, HURRY, 110, COMMERCE, -1, MORALE, 2, MINDCONTROL, 0 Values, Power, MORALE Politics, Democratic, nil Imperial, Imperi. Derva, Vindar, Derva's Grave Lord, competent, destructive, organized, cruel, evil expand the Galactic Empire expand the Galactic Empire spreading the Dark Side spreading the Dark Side turn good to evil worshiping ancient Dark Lords Of The Sith worshiping ancient Dark Lords Of The Sith spreading evil ethics Dark Force, M1 Empire, M1 expansion of the Empire, M1 Galactic Tax, M1 spreading the Dark Side Stormtroopers the Galactic Imperial Code #BASES The Death Star The Death Star II Hoth Base Yavin4 Conquest Ewok Captivity AntiRebel Base1 AntiRebel Base2 AntiRebel Base3 AntiRevel Base4 Tarkin's Tarnish Vader's Vengence Palpintine's Power Dagohbah Conquered Expanding Emipre Galactic Strength Stromtrooper's Resort Snowtrooper's Resort Jabba's Palace Throne Room1 Throne Room2 Throne Room3 The Dark Side Galactic Claw Rancor Park Dewback Resort Kessel Mines Emperor's Resort #END #WATERBASES WatertrooperBase Empire's Navy Naval Base5 FalconCenter Aqua Destroyer Imperial Class Aqua Destroyer Super Aqua Destroyer Dark Bay #END #BLURB Never underestimate the Dark Side of the Force. The Dark Side is all, the Dark side is true power, the Dark Side is the destiny of the galaxy. Never underestimate the power of the Dark Side. ^ ^ ^ -- Lord Darth Vader ^ "Empire Ethics" ^ ^ #DATALINKS1 ^LEADER: {Lord Darth Vader} ^BACKGROUND: {galaxy far, far away, Lord of The Galactic Empire} ^AGENDA: {take star system for Empire} ^TECH: {Intellwctual Integrity} ^ #DATALINKS2 ^+1 MORALE: {troops are dedicated and unthinking} ^+1 POLICE: {citzens willing to obey all orders from overpowering Empire} ^-3 PLANET: {careless about value of life} ^-2 SUPPORT: {citizens don't like the Empire} ^110% Hurry Costs: {workers overworked} ^+50% Psi Combat: {in tune to the force} ^-1 Commerce Rate: {bad relations with other factions} #FACTIONTRUCE #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 "This war is unessesary as of the present. You shall cease your rebellion at once and call a truce with the great Empire." "Of course. This war is unneeded." "HA! You shall be crushed under the Light Side!" #FACTIONTREATY #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 "Our factions should make peace and prosper under the dark side, $TITLE0 $NAME1, do you agree with my offering?" "Yes, we can prosper under your Force, $NAME3" "Certainly not! You are nothing but pure evil!" # ; This line must remain at end of file is it balenced??
Schoop	posted 05-08-99 08:34 AM ET balanced isn't the problem, you've got about 14 modifiers to the faction, and I THINK the game will only read the first eight. Someone else might have to confirm this, but you might have to trim it a bit.
Al Gore Rythm	posted 05-08-99 10:47 AM ET Regardless, they're still imbalanced. 100% PSI is just way too high, my friend. Even if another faction gets both the Neural Amplifier and the Dream Twister you are still more powerful in PSI combat. Your faction would never have to build anything besides Mindworms to easily conquer. Immunity to Mindcontrol is also powerful. With it, you can gain one of the greatest strengths of the Believers, immunity to having your units just plain get up and turn around to attack you. +1 Morale mixed with +1 Police gives you (essentially) the two key bonuses of the Spartans. With +1 Police you can easily hit +3 with Police State. Allowing you to have 3 units as police and the police effect doubles. This negates the effect of drones quite a bit. Finally, you forgot to mention they also have a free Command Center at each base. Which means they have +3 Morale on land at all times (and +4 at a base.) Since land is easily the most important of all territories throughout the game, this is just about as good as having a straight-foreward +3 Morale. With this I could easily hit Fundy and be nigh-invincible. -1 Commerce, although it can be a problem, this is only for the peaceful faction. War-monger factions, by their own nature, tend to not use much commerce anyway. So while the PKs, Morganites and UoP may depend upon those research credits, war-mongers such as this faction do not. -2 Support, except for Miriam and Yang (and possibly Sparta) I believe every faction uses Democracy, and so has this very effect. Although you can maintain only one unit per base for free, with all their advantages they'd only need one or two to annihlate inferior units anyway. -3 Planet, this can hurt alot. But it alone cannot really be enough to stop all these advantages. While Planet may hurt them, they have a +3 Morale setting and 100% on Psi combat. Worms and all other units of Planet are no threat to them. 110% Hurry Costs, virtually a non-factor. When a person wants to hurry something badly enough, they're gonna do it anyway. Penalty or no. Drone for every four, This is a heavy weakness. But it is easily alleviated by the +1 Police. With Police State they can both knock out the weakness of support as well as have super police powers. With such super-police they can easily put down all the new drones that would appear. So I just see way too many advantages, not too many weaknesses. Or, if those weaknesses are present, they are alleviated by other advantages. Also, I don't think (correct me here) that "Imperi" is the plural version of Imperial. I think it's just "Imperials." Usually things that end with an "i" or a "ii" when they're plural have "us" when singular. Such as Virus (Virii.)
eNo	posted 05-08-99 03:56 PM ET Schoop's right. There's a limit on how many modifiers you can have.
The Hawk	posted 05-08-99 04:34 PM ET It is hard to understand ur faction since it is written that way. Something like Moral +2 Growth +1 Tech -3 is easier to read. I know thats what ur faction file looks like but it is hard to read.