posted 06-15-99 07:41 PM ET     

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; Sid Meier's ALPHA CENTAURI
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; FACTION FILE: Sephiroth
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; Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 by Firaxis Games, ;Inc. (liar! I made this!!!! WTF? =) )
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; ALPHA CENTAURI reads the rules of the game ;from this file at
; startup. Feel free, at your own risk ;(heh), to experiment with editing
; this file. We recommend you make a backup ;copy of the original (to late! bwahahaha).
;

#SEPH
Planet's rightful Rulers, The God, Ancients, M, 1, Sephiroth, M, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0,
TECH, WillPow, SOCIAL, +++SUPPORT, SOCIAL, ---PLANET, SOCIAL,
++MORALE, SOCIAL, ++ECONOMY, FACILITY, 33, SOCIAL, --INDUSTRY,
IMMUNITY, EFFIC,
Future Society, Thought Control, nil
Politics, Democratic, nil
Evil, Evil,
Jeneva, Hojo, Jeneva-RESURECTION ; (sp?)
Great, powerful, evil, great, megalomanic,
Pure Evil
gather the life force of this planet
to gather up the life force of Planet
stealing all our souls for himself
stealing our souls to create a new world which you will be 'god' over
gather up the life energy of Planet for your own megalomanic needs
looking for his 'promised land'
looking for your 'promised land'
trying to become 'god'
attempts to steal our souls, M1
energy gathering, M2
energy gathering, M2
'energy contribution' (heh heh...), M1
stealing souls from your enemys
my dark clones
my will

#BASES
Promised Land
Northern Crater
Temple of the Ancients
Neo-Midgar
Meteor
Jeneva-BIRTH
Jeneva-LIFE
Jeneva-DEATH
Jeneva-SYNTHESIS
Ultimate W
Ruby W
Diamond W
#END

#WATERBASES
Emerald W
Sapphire W
Gelnika
Junon Undersea
#END

#BLURB
^ As you know, when you die, your spirit leaves and becomes
one with the planet, travels into the lifestream, and is used by the
planet to create new life. If the planet is wonded, it uses this
energy, Mako, to heal the wound. But what if the planet's life,
the very planet itself is in danger, such as a meteor collision?
Think how much energy would be gathered then! And at the center
of that energy... will be me!! I will take the energy of the planet,
made from your dying souls, and draw it into myself,
and reshape the planet in my image! I will be like a God!
^
^ -- Sephiroth,
^ "The Bitrh of a God"

#DATALINKS1
^LEADER: {Sephiroth}
^BACKGROUND: {Ex-SOLDIER member, thought to have been killed at Nibelhiem}
^AGENDA: {Take all the life energy of Planet}
^TECH: {The Will to Power}
^

#DATALINKS2
^+3 Support: {Folowers mindless drones}
^-3 Planet: {No respect for life}
^+2 Morale {Folowers mindless drones}
^+1 Economy {Steals energy from death}
^-2 Industry and immune to Inefficiency
^{May not use Democratic Politics.}
^{Psi Gate in every city}

#FACTIONTRUCE
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"This delaying your fate is worthless, $NAME1.
Killing my soldiers only adds to my power."

"Anyone who feeds on death cannot be stoped by war. A truce it is!"
"You are pure evil, $NAME3! You will pay for your atrocities!"

#FACTIONTREATY
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"Your soul will be mine anyway, $TITLE0
$NAME1. Won't you sign a Treaty of Friendship so I
may remember you and make you a higher being in the next world?"

"$NAME3, let me live my life out, and I am with you."
"No. You will never have me, $NAME3."

posted 06-15-99 08:44 PM ET         

WAY too powerful.

+3 Support, way better than the believers, they virtually have free units in the later stages of the game.

+2 Morale, not just free, but powerful.

+1 Economy, at first I would assume they're a war-monger faction, but they also get good Econ. So they can go Wealth with no penalties (+2 Morale) and clean up shop with +2 Econ.

Free Psi gate, Just too powerful. Once they sprawl out far enough they can use incredibly outlandish military tactics and win. For instance, they could keep all their military units inside the deepest parts of their territory, and still just use Psi Gates to throw them all over. Not to mention these units will be strong and free.

Will To Power, So they start the game with a level 9 (or 8, not sure) tech? They get Thought Control right off the bat, and with +3 Support they can easily switch on and off from using tactics of brute force to using tactics of attrition. Plus they get the Dream Twister guaranteed since it will be atleast 150 years before the other factions reach the Will To Power.

-3 Planet, So? Free Dream Twister, super teleporting free armies, what difference does it make? They can more than easily fend off hordes of mindworms without flinching.

-2 Industry/Immunity to Efficency, Once again, so? With +2 Morale and Immunity to Efficency they can go Planned/Wealth and neutralize this weakness. Once they go to war Industry is unimportant anyway and at that point they have all the cards in their hand.

posted 06-15-99 10:02 PM ET         

I changed it so you cannot get wealth, and no psi gates, but Will to Power stays (dream twister fits him so well anyway ). He has -3 planet so if he goes free market, planet will kill him, and i changed +3 support to Immunity, Support, and Immunity, inefficiancy is now +2 effic.

posted 06-16-99 10:57 AM ET            

It's spelled Jenova(Not Jeneva).
The weapons were actually created by planet to stop Jenova.
Sephiroth was Shinra's enemy as well, so having Neo-Midgar, Junon underwater reactor, Gelnika plane etc as bases just doesn't make sense.

posted 06-18-99 10:28 AM ET            

i learned a useful tip in designing factions the other day. when you design a faction never exceed 6 social modifiers (economy, efficency, support, morale, police, growth, planet, probe, industry, research). that is the amount of modifiers that will will show up on your faction profile screen in the SE window, it also makes it easier for balancing.

the -3 planet is a pretty bad penalty because that means your troops get a minus 30% bonus when fighting mindworms but if he gets the dream twister(which he should always get) that penalty is goes away...if he goes green then suddenly he is a psi force and the immunity to support along with +2 efficency means that you get free use of thought control which mans +2 probe +2 moral +2 police and you'll get free democracy

so using dem/thought control you'd have

+4 efficency
+4 morale
+1 economy
+2 police
+2 growth
+2 probe
-3 planet
-2 industry

which is too strong in my opinion and stasis Archon is right you do have ++ Economy where it actually determines what modifers you get