Lets Play SMAX!

[Buster's Uncle]

...I'm a pedant who enjoys lecturing, as well as a habitual forum activity builder.  (I play build-the-forum as a major hobby the same way I play SMAC almost like it's Sim City)..

Of course that's my policy. 

[Green1]

...I'm a pedant who enjoys lecturing, as well as a habitual forum activity builder.  (I play build-the-forum as a major hobby the same way I play SMAC almost like it's Sim City)..

Of course that's my policy. 

Never did a forum. Had experience with wikis. Ya'll are  doing okay though.

Speaking of AARs, though. New Age, how is this going with the massive cockroach crawler army of doom?

[NewAgeOfPower]

@Green: The game hasn't changed at all since you saw it- I specifically stated it won't get updated till Saturday.

Most of my bases have 4 crawlers, University base has 5 or 6, Baikonur has 10. There is a stack of 8 or so Rover Supply sitting outside University Base  waiting for my probe teams to steal Pre-Sentient Algorithms. Although mineral production is 40-60 in my core 4 bases, they all have support upkeeps of 10 minerals or more  I know, unoptimized.

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I am a poor student that has classes every day of the week but Saturday. I can't risk my (hopefully last) semester to One-More-Turn-Itis.

Kindly wait 4 days.

[Green1]

cut to a scene.

A tall, crazed dude wearing a mindworm avatar and a thick deep south US accent shows up at your university riding of all things a bicycle!

Waltzing past the professors and campus police as if cloaked, he grabs you... drags you back to the dorm and forces you to play.

He then yells, 'NOOB... SMAX is more important than RL!" then mutters something incoherent while guzzling an adult cocktail.



--- But seriously, no worries man. Take your time. I understand, lol.

((Worse, is I have heard stories of Guild Leaders and Clan leaders who are like that. Gawd. Particularly back in the day))

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Buster's Uncle]

@Green: The game hasn't changed at all since you saw it- I specifically stated it won't get updated till Saturday.

Most of my bases have 4 crawlers, University base has 5 or 6, Baikonur has 10. There is a stack of 8 or so Rover Supply sitting outside University Base  waiting for my probe teams to steal Pre-Sentient Algorithms. Although mineral production is 40-60 in my core 4 bases, they all have support upkeeps of 10 minerals or more  I know, unoptimized.

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I am a poor student that has classes every day of the week but Saturday. I can't risk my (hopefully last) semester to One-More-Turn-Itis.

Kindly wait 4 days.

We've waited four days.  Feed us, please; we're hungry.

-A Fan

[NewAgeOfPower]

So, I finished writing 3 different papers, then promptly crashed.

I woke up in the afternoon, then realized, there is no rest for the wicked. Alas, Yang and Santiago don't care about my sleep schedule.

Escorted by the University Navy, University Spec Ops teams steal tech required for HSA. I lost both probes, but at University Base I 1-turn HSA with 4 Supply Rovers, with some red mineral leakage going on. Oh well.

The war goes very slowly. With my new pet Pactmate Deidre I march on Yang from the south simultaneously as my forces cross the landbridge my formers created to the north.



I discover Tachyon Weaponry and Probability Sheaths... My tech advantage is getting bigger and bigger every day; Santiago has Missiles and Plasma Steel, while Yang has Chaos and Silksteel. I discover Fusion and Space Travel to boot too! After massing fusion labs everywhere, I set multiple bases to Sky Hydroponics.

After I salvage the Unity Fusion Core, I then send a Probe Team to steal Lal's share 

At my core 10 bases, I finish all available infrastructure (except for punishment spheres, skunkworks... etc.) and begin mass producing Clean Rover Super formers. Unfortunately I disappeared my monolith (at University Base), while raising a Green Unit (that Deidre turned over to me) to disciplined!




Farewell... : [

Again, despite heavy loses from the Spartan Air Forces, University Navy (along with University Air Force elements, based in Miriam's sea bases) seize War Outpost. Given the presence of The Citizen's Defense Force and The Cloudbase Academy, it is proving very difficult for Santiago's forces to retake it. However, University Air forces in the Spartan theater are almost completely wiped out due to Santaigo's swarm of Missile Tacticals jumping my out-of-base attackers.



Oh well, they were obsolete anyways.

I also seize Communal Nexus and Bunker 118, but Santaigo wipes out my battleship at Bunker 118 with a Cruise Missile : [ And Communal Nexus is wiped out by Yang after heavy fighting.

Now, I suppose I can mass produce Nukes and just win, or do you guys want to see some nice Gravship action?

[NewAgeOfPower]

Great news! Sunday Class is CANCELED, allowing me to finish my AAR this weekend!

[Buster's Uncle]

 

You're wasting money on those clean rovers; rovers are no support.  Test it, and see.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Lol. I get lazy.

Anyways, over the last decade, I've been busy with my probe teams. Yeah, that -4 Probe Rating really makes stealing things unoptimal... oh well.



University is the first in Space, the Final Frontier!

I decide to celebrate by exterminating Lal. But I think he would surrender or something, and I need that delicious electric symphony of captured enemy leaders : ]





ZZZZTTTTTT UAHHHHHH!!!! *SHONG* Doors close with a UN symbol. Smells a little like curry ;p



World Map 2326

To celebrate the delicious curry... my citizens construct monuments dedicated to the greatness of the University.





Down to less than a dozen rovers in stack for University base. Yikes!

Oh, I farmed about 2000 EC by building Robotics Assembly Plants, and my uber-bases (University, Baikonour) have over 100 mins/turn, causing massive worm bubbles. I cranked out a few Clean Elite Empath Scout Tanks, and they generated windfalls of cash.

[NewAgeOfPower]

While waiting for BU's final word (nukes or Skyfleets) I one-more-turned a little...

There is this bug where someone tries to communicate with you repeatedly, but simply pops this message back up for awhile:



This happens about 10-20 times, then switches to:



That WOULD be intimidating except my Faction Power Bar will soon be greater than all the other faction bars combined...

I accomplished quite a bit of research; here are a few snippets;



Which leads to rushing.



Before you know it, I get to build another super important SP



And now I am filthy rich, ready to remove UN Sanctions; I can knock down nukes and they can't... Bwahahaha



Eh, Immortal as well, Santiago keeps calling elections she can't win:

[Buster's Uncle]

You're wasting money on those clean rovers; rovers are no support.  Test it, and see.

D'oh!

I meant crawlers.  Crawlers require no support.  Waste of time and resources to make them clean.

[Buster's Uncle]

While waiting for BU's final word (nukes or Skyfleets) I one-more-turned a little...

Say what?

I hate that comm bug...

[NewAgeOfPower]

I don't put clean reactors on my supply rovers.

How shall I win the game? Also, how do I see who voted?

[Buster's Uncle]

I guess I had a brain poot re:crawlers/rovers.

I would play for Transcendence personally, but voted for conquest, because I think that'll make a better show.  Three others beg to differ, and even I have no way to look up who, alas.