There's more. We just came into a big ol' .tar file from Apolyton and the dawn of the nets. Some of it's factions I haven't had time to go through yet. Maybe next week...
There are 3 areas I see potentially interesting about people's long lost faction mods:
Big Tobacco Industry
The unthinkable has happenned and Big Tobacco has hitchhiked their way to Alpha Centauri.
Here, presenting the Tobacco Consortium, or the Really Evil Morganites.
LAMBDA SET
by Chiron Force, with help from Pentalarc.
Art by networknode, base icons by Sceabsatsatniiazna.
Six years after the Unity Mission was launched, Mankind entered its darkest days. Not knowing if Unity would be a success, a backup mission was planned. Unfourtnately, not a single nation had the rescources to fund another mission, so the nations of the world turned to private enterprises. Five international corporations and two private groups provided the funding for a second mission in return for a ticket to Chiron…
The Rensallir Corporation - A French aeronautics company that specializes in commercial spaceflight.
Jorgenstad - a Dutch electronics and technology company.
Delgusia Inc. - the leading Brazilian manufacturing company with military connections.
CerraGen - a shadowy American genetics company.
Obriosh i - a Japanese energy company.
The Briach Estate - a fabulously wealthy English estate.
Serabollio - an Italian enterprise that has long been associated with art and fashion.
19.09.01
Return to Earth themed set
Sysiyo has an excellent idea for a future themed set. It consists of 4 factions that leave Chiron for the fabled voyage back to Earth. When they arrive they discover a ruined earth that has become the battleground of two "Super Power" nations, technologically inferior but with powerful military and resources. As these six factions struggle for dominance the seventh power reveals itself. An AI of uprecedented power and machine like killer instinct, known only as "The One".
Also found the copy of Xenofungus (https://web.archive.org/web/20030923220232/http://xenofungus.cjb.net/), complete with info (but sadly no files) for the DS9 TC project in German. For some reason the pre-2003 archives (https://web.archive.org/web/20020124044349/http://xenofungus.cjb.net/) contain scenarios that the later archives lack.
I know the Kappa Set was released a while a go, so I apologize for not writing this sooner. Overall, I thought the Kappa Set was good.
A few factions I was impressed by, and others…well…
Androgynous - I can’t imagine there being a whole faction of multisexuals(aren’t there only two?). Hmm let’s see, mindworms are overrunning our bases, drones are rioting…I think I need to be a different sex…Other than that this was a pretty good faction. I liked the graphics and the gameplay was above par
Bards - Damn this is one powerful faction! How come these singers and musicians keep kicking my ass!?! Hey that’s not a guitar!! Put down that fusion laser!! The Bards were the best faction in the set, as well as the most powerful. The base names and graphics were also very good. Definitely download this faction if you want some serious compitition.
Guardians of Morality - Brother Robert Rydell was deprived as a child, and now he’s gonna tell you what to do. In reality, the Guardians weren’t very moral, as they repeatedly attacked me FOR NO APPARENT REASON. I’m sitting their minding my own reason when his little comlink pops up and says he’s gonna eliminate my faction! So much for understanding. Of course, I kicked his ass good! If you like factions that easily pick off, then the Guardians are for you. If you want a challenge, look elsewhere. The Guardians got off way to slowly and don’t develop their economy, research, or basically anything else. However they will produce countless laser batteries to throw at you.
Gemini Empire – They say that imitation is the sincerest for of flattery. In that case I’m flattered. This faction is a complete rip-off of my Imperialist faction. The text is exactly the same! Come on man, at least make up your own base names! It should be said that the graphics are quite good, though.
Ishbu - Here’s another one of my stellar factions. I hope this one doesn’t get ripped-off. What can I say except that the graphics are impressive and the gameplay is solid (though still second to the Bards)
Mech Prospect - Here’s another OK faction. The graphics are a negative of the Spartan graphics. The text was average, but the gameplay was good.
Showbiz - Umm…lets see…mindworms are overrunning the base…the drones are rioting…HOW COME THERES NEVER ANYTHING GOOD ON TV!?!? Come on people, a showbiz faction? I think there are more important issues on planet than making movies. The base names were good though, and the text made me laugh. Too bad the parody faction contest is over.
::Iota Set Released; My Comments::
The Iota set is out! You may recognize some of the factions, they were part of an early Alpha Contest. Overall I thought the set was excellent. The webpage for the set was really good, I think all future sets should be done like that. As a whole the graphics were awesome, and the text was good. There isn’t one bad faction in the set. So what does everyone think of my map? Please let me know. In fact, if you have any comments send them to me. Download the set now if you haven’t already. Here are my comments on the factions.
Legion of Aquarius - Peace and enlightenment? Wait I thought this faction was by Pentalarc… Well its not his normal evil type faction, but it is still very good. The graphics are good. Love the base pic. Gameplay is well balanced.
Bringers of the Deluge - Nothing worse than a belligerent redneck that wants to turn the planet into water. This is more of a Pentalarc faction. The Bringers are tough competitors, and tough to get rid of when playing against. Good graphics again, the leader pic definitely suits the leader. The base pic was good, but…..haven’t I seen something like that before? (check out the Hydra Institute base pics)
Full Fathom Five - I like the Shakespeare quote. Another good faction. I like the base pic, once again. Is this a faction of humans, or some offshoot race?
Hydra Institute - Winners of the first Alpha Contest, the Hydras are one of the best aquatic factions out there. Good graphics, well done text, and a solid all around faction.
Multimakers - What does that mean anyway? The Multimakers are sort of the Gaians of the sea. They’re also tough compeditors. The revamped graphics were my favorite in the set.
O.E.C. - Despite the long faction name, the O.E.C. is another good faction (damn I say that a lot). I guess they can be considered the Peacekeepers of the sea. Some of the base names were to long though…
Triton Sect - Ahh here’s my faction. This was actually the second faction I ever created. I have been waiting more than a year to see this one in a set. I think I did a good job with it. The –2 research kind of slows the faction down. Other than that a good faction. Nice graphics, they’ve gotten consistently better.
FIRST ARRIVAL
In the Year 2038, The United Nations Proyect Unity, that was created to explore and colonize the system of Alpha Centaury, was canceled because a new world war started. The territore in conflic was the Antartic Continent, which was demanded by several nations.
The war produced new technologies such the cheapper fussion core, these technologies made every nation and corporation able to build a spaceship, which could travel to the stars. And so a new competitive race started in the Earth, The race to Alpha Centaury.
The mightier spaceships arrived earlier, in the first arrival
United States Space Colony: The USA Faction.
Unity Europe Space Colony: European Faction. (Mainly Germany and France)
The Seul-Tokio Colony: Oriental Faction. (Binational Union of Japan and Korea)
PAN-Arab Colony: Islamic Faction. (Economic Union of Arabia, Egipt, Iran, Irak, And other Islamic nations)
Bharat-Chiron: The India Federation Faction.
The Tigers Colony: Asian Faction. (Aerospacial agency of Bengala, economic association of Malaysia, Indonesia, and T'hai)
The New Jewish State: Neosionist Faction.
SECOND ARRIVAL
Some years later after the first seven spaceships arrived in chiron, seven new spaceships entered in the Centaury System.
The Chosen People: A secret sect of mad people, who seized the second Spaceship of the UESC and sacrificed the original crew.
Nigeria Chiron Colony: Nigeria Faction. With the support of all Africa.
The Antartic Legion: The Union of Argentina and the free Antartic Legion. Militaristic Faction
Great China Colony: Chinese Faction.
The New British Empire: British Faction
C.O.R.P. Group: Hidden group of scientific people who were associated with independent economical groups
Brazilian Colony: Brazilian Colony
Found a couple of threads about cut content on Apolyton. Is Apolyton the oldest extant SMAC/Civ community?Solver thinks it's -maybe- the oldest gaming forum in the world.
The Apolyton Civilization Site (often called Apolyton for short) is a website that provides information about and forums for discussing the Civilization and Call to Power games. Having been online since at least September 1998, it is possibly the oldest Civilization site on the Internet.
Amazingly, some random spam blog archived the Second Arrival info. Sadly the actual mod files are gone.
http://alphacentauryforever.blogspot.com/2007/10/u.html
Based on the starting techs and and stats, they are way overpowered. And the descriptions are a hoot. "AGENDA: Policial Neoliberalism" for the China faction. lol
I can recommend Return_to_Earth mod. It has a styled factions with half of the same Bases graphics (as in Second Arrival).
And a good map.
Oh interesting, does the Second Arrival files exist somewhere?Never heard that it was fully done.
I'm also looking for the Waterworld one.