Alternate Original Seven Faction Package

[Dio]

Alternate Original Seven Faction Package

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I had three major goals while developing my alternate original seven faction package. The first goal was to use the original seven factions as a basis and to rename them using their names from the development of SMAC. My second goal was to make a full set of logos for each of the factions based upon the logo's from SMAC's development. The third, and final, goal was to use each of the special rules from SMAC at least once among the factions while still keeping them fairly balanced against one another. Lastly, I hope that you enjoy the changes I have made and will play with my faction package.

[Geo]

Why two threads? 

[Buster's Uncle]

He posted the files in the wrong place first, and I fixed it.  Now I will fix there being two threads.

Always with the PDMA, Geo. 

[ete]

http://www.pdma.org/ ?

And cool, I'll likely wikify them later.

[Buster's Uncle]

Public Discussion of Moderator Actions, which is forbidden somewhere we're familiar with.  I'm just talking crap.

[Geo]

I'm just talking crap.

 

[Buster's Uncle]

What?  I've never pretended I don't talk crap to you. 

[ete]

The readme says to rename them all to non-alt in order to play, which would overwrite originals or require messing about with renaming which a lot of people are not going to do. Why not make them function fully with the alt name by changing the

#HIVE

lines to

#HIVEALT

and removing the spaces from all the files? That way a player can simply extract the files straight into their AC folder, add the factions to the custom faction list by copy/pasting

#CUSTOMFACTIONS
GAIANSALT
HIVEALT
UNIVALT
MORGANALT
SPARTANSALT
BELIEVEALT
PEACEALT

in alphax,txt? That seems like an easier way of getting the factions, and less likely to get someone to accidentally overwrite their original factions.

[Buster's Uncle]

He's thinking of vanilla SMAC users, I expect - some words about making a little backup folder are in order for them, and a clear distinction should be drawn in the instructions, telling how to do it the ete way for SMAX.

[ete]

ah, yes, SMAC has a less good way of handling custom factions. I'd encourage the default setup to be the one for SMAX users, since with gog around and all the fan patches most people are running that.

[Buster's Uncle]

Sure, but it's good to throw the SMAC-only crowd a bone.  That crowd is still indeed a thing, and we want them anyway.

[ete]

Oh, sure, especially for something like this which is explicitly focused on the original seven.

[Buster's Uncle]

Exactly.  I like the way you think.