Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: Maximus Thalos on November 14, 2018, 02:01:52 am

Title: Another night In AC
Post by: Maximus Thalos on November 14, 2018, 02:01:52 am

Always a good night. As long as you don't get nuked.

(https://i.imgur.com/6Hj7pJF.jpg)

Title: Re: Another night In AC
Post by: bvanevery on November 14, 2018, 03:30:06 am

That's a lot of screen space.  Makes me think you should be running the Virtual World with that setup!  Sorta looking around, wondering why the hell you're seeing so many clouds with all the electrodes plugged into your brain...

Title: Re: Another night In AC
Post by: Maximus Thalos on November 14, 2018, 03:31:53 am

lol the wine helps

And Chairmen Yang has tried to nuke me twice since i posted this.  :(

Title: Re: Another night In AC
Post by: bvanevery on November 14, 2018, 03:37:47 am

One thing I've been wondering about recently, is the level of visual appeal of various games.  I've been studying what kinds of YouTube videos the /r/4Xgaming crowd watches.  I have to say, I've found most of the stuff that people say they watch, to be a dead bore!  Maybe I'm biased but a still of your setup, is already better than a lot of what those video makers put on screen.  I guess their videos are all about the yabbering, but I'm more of a visual guy, I'd like to see something worthwhile.

I think a lot of games aren't worth looking at, in a YouTube video.  Even something like The Witcher III or Skyrim footage it's like... ok, you're running around and chopping up monsters, I get it.  Well, part of the problem there is this footage serves no actual didactic purpose.  It's usually just filler as someone yabbers on about the game.  Maybe it is possible to make footage from various RPGs interesting, if someone is taking more of a machinima approach to what they're putting in the video.

Anyways I just find myself wondering what "a game like SMAC, that is actually interesting to watch a video of" would mean.

Title: Re: Another night In AC
Post by: bvanevery on November 14, 2018, 03:38:59 am

Quote from: Maximus Thalos on November 14, 2018, 03:31:53 am

And Chairmen Yang has tried to nuke me twice since i posted this.  :(

Chairmen Yang?  Did he build the Cloning Vats?

Tried to nuke you?  You used Orbital Defense Pods successfully?

Last time I got nuked, I got nuked (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=21015.msg115541#msg115541).  If it makes you feel any better, I was Chairman Yang.

Title: Re: Another night In AC
Post by: PvtHudson on November 14, 2018, 04:38:15 am

The managers always talked about having the view from 30,000 feet.
The only problem with having the view from 30,000 feet, is that at
that height, everyone looks like ants.
^
^       —Foreman Domai,
^       “Genejack and the Beanstalk”