Building a Community

[Buster's Uncle]

W7?  I don't know nothin' bout compatibility w/ 8.  Hold on and I'll find a little how-to something I posted about 7...

More details might help, too.

[Buster's Uncle]

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=8731.msg49947#msg49947 and/or the OP of this one http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1437.0 which is about hotseat but has so much good on installation that Petek sends people to read it...

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay, I dug up my Planetary Pack Xfire CD (I have multiple versions, and I don't remember where they came from except my original release of vanilla from a bargain bin in late 1997) and found>clicked SETUP.EXE on the disk - installation started w/o any trouble.  I'm running W7.

[Unorthodox]

found it.  OLD leapfrog (kids toy) program was keeping the windows 32bit setup occupied. 

[Unorthodox]

ok planetary pack complete install...now what?

[Buster's Uncle]

PLAY.

It's a great game that you never mastered in the first place - took me about 13 years to burn out on.

[Unorthodox]

I confirmed it loads and appears to work.  I think we were having screenshot issues before, that may still be the case as alt-tabbing makes everything go real wierd. 

It's a great game that you never mastered in the first place - took me about 13 years to burn out on.

I can appreciate the sentiment, but there is enough I find annoying that makes this not really an option. 

For example, I really hate Planet.  Fungus, worms.  HATE. IT.  Fungus adding worker actions, and able to destroy my improvements infuriates me to no end (I've always had a dicey relationship with worker units in civ games to begin with.  Planet requiring MORE of that is no good).  Half the time I target weather paradigm just to mitigate this whole terraformer annoyance, not as part of some overall strategy.  Morale combat, I find most infuriating as well.  I lose battles I should win in morale combat more often than standard combat, and the worms are everywhere.  Lack of full healing in the field amplifies this annoyance to no end. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Of course, I'm the guy in the community for troubleshooting screenshot problems.  Remember to boot the graphics program before AC, and the colors of what you paste into it should straighten out when you finally exit the game.

[Metaliturtle]

What are the 3 main objectives of this community?

[Buster's Uncle]

1.) Get me cool people to talk to.
2.) Show them.  Show them all how wrong they were.  They said I couldn't do it, but look upon my works, ye mighty and despair!
3.) Talk some crap for fun.


Also, some FOR SMACers, By SMACers, stuff, and being excellent to each other and supporting an awesome game - and 1-3 are actually true...

[Metaliturtle]

How do you define success?

[Buster's Uncle]

See previous post.  Fulfillment of objectives 1-3 and also the tiny stuff.

[Metaliturtle]

I would say you've met your objectives then, unless you could be more specific?

[Buster's Uncle]

In the future?  More of same.  Grow bigger than CFC.

I'm serious.

[Metaliturtle]

I do believe you are, gonna need some Original Content that's widely sought-after then.