Microsoft/Microsoft.txt
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; Sid Meier's ALPHA CENTAURI
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; FACTION FILE: Microsoft
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; File Created by: Vinny
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; To install place this file and the 3 image files into your SMAC folder.
; Then when you're selecting a faction, hit the load button and type in BORG.
; This will temporarily replace one of the factions with this one.
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; Alternate method:
; To permanently install this faction, open the file alpha.txt, go to the section
; marked "#FACTIONS" and select one of the original fractions to replace.
; Then type the following in its place:
; BORG, BORG
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; ALPHA CENTAURI reads the rules of the game from this file at
; startup. Feel free, at your own risk, to experiment with editing
; this file. We recommend you make a backup copy of the original.
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#MICROSOFT
Microsoft, The Monopolist, Microsoft Corporation, M, 1, Bill Gates, M, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0,
TECH, Indust, POPULATION, 3, SOCIAL, -SUPPORT, SOCIAL, ++ECONOMY, SOCIAL, -PROBE, SOCIAL, -MORALE
Economics, Free Market, ECONOMY
Economics, Planned, nil
Microsoft, Bill Gates,
Jeneba, Kai, The Jeneba Complex
CEO, shrewd, monopolistic, wealthy, bloated,
Worthless Programmer
dominate everyone's computer systems
to reap the rightful rewards of skillful business
achieving total monopolistic control of all of Planet
achieving total monopolistic control of all of Planet
grab every drop of wealth for yourself
counting his ill-gotten energy tokens
counting your ill-gotten energy tokens
monopolistic grasping
monopolistic grasping, M1
business plans, M2
corporate empire-building, M1
investment, M1
exploiting Planet's wealth
Corporate Security
Microsoft Corporate Policy
#BASES
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Management
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Programming
Microsoft Sales
Microsoft Magnetics
Microsoft Data Systems
Microsoft Design Center
Microsoft Test Complex
Microsoft Tech Support
Microsoft Development
Microsoft Security
Microsoft Internet
Microsoft Replication
Microsoft Packaging
Microsoft Transport
Microsoft Hardware
Microsoft Warehouses
Microsoft Graphics
Microsoft Systems
Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft Optical
Microsoft Studios
Microsoft Beta Testing
#END
#WATERBASES
Microsoft Shipping
Microsoft Ocean Resources
Microsoft Marine
Microsoft Sea Platform
Microsoft Dock
#END
#BLURB
^ This system doesn't just run windows, it washes them too!
^
^ -- CEO Bill Gates,
^ Windows 2100 Beta Testing
#DATALINKS1
^LEADER: {CEO Bill Gates}
^BACKGROUND: {Computer Programming Billionaire, Unity Franchise Holder}
^AGENDA: {Free Market Economics, Pro-Industry}
^TECH: {Industrial Base}
^
#DATALINKS2
^+2 ECONOMY: {Monopolistic control of the market}
^-1 PROBE: {Security programmers lack skill}
^-1 MORALE: {Employees don't get out much}
^-1 SUPPORT: {Hoards all the cash he can get}
^Need HAB COMPLEX for bases to exceed size 4: {Programmers demand the best}
^{May not use Planned Economics.}
#FACTIONTRUCE
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"Vendetta is bad for business, $NAME1. I suggest
we pledge Blood Truce and get back to work."
"Fair enough. I shall order hostilities to cease."
"Sorry, $NAME3, but I plan to put you out of business."
#FACTIONTREATY
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
"Friend $NAME1, I can offer lucrative trading arrangements
if you will agree to a Treaty of Friendship. Shall we
become business partners?"
"By all means. Let us prosper together in peace."
"No. All of the profit would find its way into your pocket."
# ; This line must remain at end of file
