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mcostant posted 06-08-99 05:43 AM ET
Has anyone already posted this silly idea? I would like that next version of SMAC (SMACX) let me play as The Planet!
Special faction's (brief) rules:
- you have less objective, probably only to eradicate human factions or to trascende with them.
- if you cooperate with "green" factions, you receive a kind of "growing bonus" (new worms or upgraded)
- you don't have real city but mindworm's nest (no usual upgrade available, only a place where mindworm grows)
- you know all the world (well, you are it ), but must discover where humans are. Some kind of terraforming sound as alarm (e.g. you know when and where a new Borehole is drilled)
You still depend a lot from not controlled events (as perielion and the like) for growing new worms, but then you can put your human brain against that so-limited faction's IA.
Let see if mankind can survive a "real" angry Planet!
Play different, play The Planet! (Well, that's a bit on marketing side, just kidding ).
Anyone wants to grow this idea?
Krushala posted 06-08-99 04:16 PM ET
I guess it would be kind of cool for a while. Killing the humans would be fun. I always wanted to play the barbarians in civ2. I loved their red cities.
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Author	Topic: Play as The Planet!
mcostant	posted 06-08-99 05:43 AM ET Has anyone already posted this silly idea? I would like that next version of SMAC (SMACX) let me play as The Planet! Special faction's (brief) rules: - you have less objective, probably only to eradicate human factions or to trascende with them. - if you cooperate with "green" factions, you receive a kind of "growing bonus" (new worms or upgraded) - you don't have real city but mindworm's nest (no usual upgrade available, only a place where mindworm grows) - you know all the world (well, you are it ), but must discover where humans are. Some kind of terraforming sound as alarm (e.g. you know when and where a new Borehole is drilled) You still depend a lot from not controlled events (as perielion and the like) for growing new worms, but then you can put your human brain against that so-limited faction's IA. Let see if mankind can survive a "real" angry Planet! Play different, play The Planet! (Well, that's a bit on marketing side, just kidding ). Anyone wants to grow this idea?
Krushala	posted 06-08-99 04:16 PM ET I guess it would be kind of cool for a while. Killing the humans would be fun. I always wanted to play the barbarians in civ2. I loved their red cities.