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TheoPhobia posted 09-09-99 09:57 AM ET
this is an enhancement id love to see in the game, what if prolonged droneriots led to the emergence of new factions, causing wars of succesion and enabling other factions to support civil wars inorder to gain an advantage, (think Nicoraguan contras) etc, does anyone else see that as a good idea?
Aredhran posted 09-10-99 07:57 AM ET
They already do that. If you have a city's (esp. a captured one and on high difficulty levels) drones riot for too long, the base will revolt and join the enemy
Aredhran
mcostant posted 09-10-99 08:15 AM ET
TheoPhobia, actually a prolonged drone riot in a base can become a revolt, ending with your base joining another (existing) faction.
It happens to me in an early game where I was in 7th place and my unhappy citizen decide to join my neighboor - the Spartan (2th place).
You can't hope in more than standard 7 faction because the engine used in SMAC (as in Civ & CivII) appear to be "hard coded" to be limited to handle 7 faction + 1 (planet or barbarian). If that number 8 sounds to you anything about power of 2 - usual programming "magic power of 2" variables... you are right!
Also Alien Crossfire (as CIV did before) will let you chose only 7 out of 14 factions.
Please, read the other, similar thread "Yet another crazy idea" started by ZuluMenace25, here at The Game. I have post there similar suggestion as your may be we should try to jump on the wagon of Yin26's "The List" for CIV III at Apolyton's CIV Site.
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Author	Topic: Enhancement idea
TheoPhobia	posted 09-09-99 09:57 AM ET this is an enhancement id love to see in the game, what if prolonged droneriots led to the emergence of new factions, causing wars of succesion and enabling other factions to support civil wars inorder to gain an advantage, (think Nicoraguan contras) etc, does anyone else see that as a good idea?
Aredhran	posted 09-10-99 07:57 AM ET They already do that. If you have a city's (esp. a captured one and on high difficulty levels) drones riot for too long, the base will revolt and join the enemy Aredhran
mcostant	posted 09-10-99 08:15 AM ET TheoPhobia, actually a prolonged drone riot in a base can become a revolt, ending with your base joining another (existing) faction. It happens to me in an early game where I was in 7th place and my unhappy citizen decide to join my neighboor - the Spartan (2th place). You can't hope in more than standard 7 faction because the engine used in SMAC (as in Civ & CivII) appear to be "hard coded" to be limited to handle 7 faction + 1 (planet or barbarian). If that number 8 sounds to you anything about power of 2 - usual programming "magic power of 2" variables... you are right! Also Alien Crossfire (as CIV did before) will let you chose only 7 out of 14 factions. Please, read the other, similar thread "Yet another crazy idea" started by ZuluMenace25, here at The Game. I have post there similar suggestion as your may be we should try to jump on the wagon of Yin26's "The List" for CIV III at Apolyton's CIV Site.