Civ III is not one of my favorites, but my best memory of Civ III is probably the game where I played a game on emperor difficulty and one AI side was neck and neck with me and we spent well over two centuries having an air war of mostly bombers. It was honestly ridiculous how closely matched we were and the war lasted until the end of the game.
SMAC was honestly more complicated than Civ III, but it was so good that it didn’t matter!
I hope you enjoy it!
SMAC (Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri) had some really interesting ideas and mechanics. SMAC is based on “well what happens after you win Civ via space race” and has actual lore, but I didn’t feel it in any way limited the replayability. There is an expansion, Alien Crossfire, that is also included in the pack on Steam. The expansion included new factions, a bunch of different game mechanic tweaks and “secret projects” (aka wonders like in Civ), but you can play them separately and I think I’d encourage you to play the original first as not all of the changes were necessarily better, just different.
It probably won’t matter since you enjoyed Civ 1 just fine, but there are some of the mods out there that can update the graphics and things like that.
I’d agree, and I prefer 4 to 5 greatly for that very reason.
Alpha Centaui is a masterpiece and I feel it is better than any actual Civ game.
I think I would have really enjoyed Civ Revolution had I not already played a ton of Civ 4 on which it was based. I just couldn’t get over what was missing.
I played more Civ 1 than any of the later games. Civ 2 is also great as is 4 (3 is decent, but I wasn’t nearly as enthralled with it). Every game in the series since has had aspects to it that I disliked enough to keep me from continuing to play and I heard enough bad comments about 7 to not both buying it.
Until this alleged Motorola collaboration bears fruit, Pixels are all there is for GOS.
I’ve never seen anyone say “Akka Dakka” before and clearly I was missing out. Also, agreed on all points.
If Kojima did it, we’d either need a Metal Gear Ray or just plain ol nanmomachines.
Food sure, but low cost housing? Maybe a long time ago, but certainly not now.
The article clearly mentions California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming. Perhaps others that I missed as well. Your comment I replied to was not specific to a location, you said “it makes sense to me that consumers can’t be pumping energy into the grid with no way to cut it off” and I was letting you know that it shouldn’t be a concern because that isn’t how solar power systems work. Do you think that Utah will work different for some reason?
Reminds me of the bridge level of Super Mario Bros.
Did you respond to the wrong message? Nothing I said anything to do with Utah.
I’m just being facetious, I of course know there is no bottom to how shitty things can be.
In many areas, they flat out don’t allow the second one at all.
These systems are designed to not push power back up if the grid goes down. In most areas, the municipality won’t even allow a solar installation to be connected or even finished without it being inspected to verify you have that sort of setup.
When I got solar panels on my previous home there was a $5 a month line charge. That when went up to $8 the next year, then $10, then closer to $20. The power company (Duke Energy in case anyway wants to the shitty company’s name) was determined to make it as painful as possible for people to use Solar. They were also apparently responsible for pushing to get it illegal in that area to go “off grid” and to have a cap on the amount of solar power a home could generate. At now point did these line changes stop them from raising the normal power usage rates mind you, this was just an extra “fuck you” from them.
The Civ 1 music was menacing and awesome. It reminded me of the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back.
I bought one of those when years ago because of the wacky novelty. The wifi capability was even less reliable than cheap sdcards are for long term storage.