Sim Alpha Centauri

[bvanevery]

Have you ever contemplated SMAC as a city builder game, rather than a 4X?  The idea would be to have a single base that you administrate in great detail.  I think it would offer far more narrative opportunities than the SMAC world format actually does.  You could, for instance, actually see the feeding troughs at the Hive.  People could screw in Gaia's High Garden.  Morgan's desk would have its opulence.  Some of these things are visually illustrated in cutscenes or stills, but nowadays, all of these things could be 3D modeled and animated.  A city improvement becomes a straightforward idea: you actually build a Recreation Commons.

[Geo]

Good luck modding Civ6?

[bvanevery]

Why would I?  It's not structured like a SimCity.

Come to think of it there was SimCity Societies.  I never tried it, as the reviews were mostly bad.  Maybe it'll run on my crappy old laptops, which are actually of the same era as this game.