Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: Sigma on August 29, 2013, 09:12:05 PM

Title: Can someone playtest these freaks?
Post by: Sigma on August 29, 2013, 09:12:05 PM

So one of the factions in my faction pack appears to be far and away stronger than all of the others. These would be the Genome Syndicate. The Genarchs, as they are colloquially known, are a hybrid build/conquer faction with the following stats:

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Every human being spends seventy two hours as a single celled organism,
scarecly different from the first paramecia that fought tooth and nail against
nature's cruelty for every evolutionary edge they could find. It is amazing to
think how far we have come since then, and humbling to think how far we have yet
to go.

-- Director Jaqueline Navarro,
 "The Terminal Cure"

LEADER: {Jaqueline Navarro}
BACKGROUND: {Western American Republic, Unity Medical Officer}
AGENDA: {Human biological improvement}
TECH: {Biogenetics}

-2 GROWTH:   {Exacting population control}
+2 MORALE:   {Elite field operatives}
1 additional talent for every 4 citizens {Gene enhanced workers}
Free Recycling Tanks at every base
Free Biology Lab at every base with discovery of Centauri Empathy
{May not choose Fundamentalist Politics}

These stats seem fairly reasonable to me, but it turns out that they add up to way more than the sum of their parts, as the Genarchs appear to be good at everything. I got lucky once, landing right next to the Monsoon Jungle which negated their growth penalty completely, but the other times that I've tested them they do unusually well, regardless of their landing spot.

Would anyone be interested in playtesting them a little bit to help me confirm this? They're actually really fun to play as, I've found, but just too powerful. Playing on Librarian felt like playing on Citizen. I want to see if other people have that same experience.

I've attached their relative documents to this post. Thanks for your help!

Title: Re: Can someone playtest these freaks?
Post by: ete on August 29, 2013, 09:43:22 PM

Sure, will next game, though that may be in a few days.

Title: Re: Can someone playtest these freaks?
Post by: Geo on August 29, 2013, 09:49:02 PM

"scarecly" in the leader's quote? Is that an English word? Did you mean "barely"?

Title: Re: Can someone playtest these freaks?
Post by: Sigma on August 29, 2013, 09:57:34 PM

Oh yeah, I fixed that typo in the faction txt. "Scarcely" is the correct spelling.