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Good to see you mention Flintlock's great mod.

Hell yeah! Back to civ 3 But how to make it work with the no city raze mod?

People call The Sims' interface the best. This mod is a UX gem of the highest league, too.

The stack bombard for Bombers did not work for me. It works for artillery.

Ya the nesting of the units is a little weird, but being able to issue commands in bulk saves so much time like that's a big QOL change. Same with the riot warning

The mass bombard with artillery looks great. Does the worker confirmation go away for the rest of the game or is it per tile? The new trade screen looks awesome. The way of showing stacks wasn't optimal, and also not that big of a problem in the base game. It's only a problem when the scroll bar appears, which means around 35 units on my display. Besides it only takes 1/10 of a second to judge the strength of a stack in the base game: long list of units = strong (unless you're the AI and chose to attack with 20 pikemen late in the game). Anyway thanks for making a video about it, I'll be checking it out.

Your desktop background is lame chief

This sounds like an excellent mod. Well worth installing.

Is there anyway to get this to work with the civ3 RAR ( rise and rule) mod? That mod has become like vanilla civ3 mod.

Wow brb im downloading this. it seems amazing.

Is this allowed in multiplayer?

I said I'd do a video on C7. I interviewed a dev and they say a big milestone is coming up soon! They would prefer I time the video with their new milestone (and new footage too!)

1:39 factually not true. Civ 1 had settlers as workers.

As someone who recently started playing Civ 6, I agree with everything you say. Especially on the distinction you make on complexity vs depth. It feels like there are so many mechanics that, even if you understand how to use them individually, are so abstracted that you can't tell whether your decisions are good for the whole. But because of their complexity, they can't make the AI know how to use them, so as long as you learn those mechanics at a basic level, you have a free ride. Haven't played at deity level, but considering how boring and unsatisfying combat was (especially when I got to the modern age), I don't see myself having that motivation. Overall, I still like the game fine enough, but the only reason I really play it is that it has Hungary

"Someone posted a 4000-word piece of Alpha Centauri fanfic. No-one is posting fanfic on the Civ III discord. Same thing with the Call to Power discord." I have come across a fanfic of Civ II: Test of Time though. It was a My Little Pony Conversion Bureau crossover called "EarthGate Saga".

I was 14 in 1999 when this game launched. It was almost singlehandedly responsible for a lifelong interest in political philosophy and then by extension history for me. As a teenager I found some of the Aristotle and Plato quotes so compelling, I picked up copies of The Republic and Nicomachean Ethics at a used book store so that I could get the greater context of the quotes from the game. Later in my early 20's I was in a trades college, but I found the time to follow a free online Stanford course on political philosophy so that I could see how my personal understanding of the texts lined up against the academic understanding. I literally sought out university level education in an effort to understand quotes from this game. This interest and the time I've dedicated to it has served me well for decades at this point. I have to thank whoever on the writing staff was the poli sci nerd. Some of the texts the game references: Plato - The Republic, Symposium Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince I also could have sworn it referenced Leviathan by Hobbes, but I can't find the quote if it did.

Thank you for this, it was better than any of the Civs.

it not civilization in space because your not in space, your on PLANET and your stuck there. Endless space or birth of the federation would fit that better but both with the advantages that the factions play completely differently.

1:01, 4:48, 9:26 - forever farm and solar collector gamer? xD Forests -> Fungus for ease of use Farm/Condenser/Borehole and crawler spam for tryharding - no collector required

"ludo-narrative consonance" bravo

Kinda seems like it's just Civilization with common science fiction aesethics. Almost any scifi media i have ever seen has this same dystopian world view; look at this abomination here, look at this casual war crime there and look how everyone is suffering all the time. How else would they have made a civilization like game set in the future while being made close to the 2000s, instead of doing it the way alpha centuari did? Imo there really is no disservice here to call it civilization in space, especially since it's made by the same people who made civilization. When i say hoi4 is eu4 set in world war 2 i'm not saying it's the same game but that it's the same genre in a different theme. Obviously ww2 would demand different mechanics and aesthetics and so thats why hoi4 is distinct from eu4 while still being similar.

There's a better universe out there, in which Civilization evolved along the line of Alpha Centauri, instead of becoming the abomination Civilization is from Civ5 onward.

What about the most fun units to play with tierlist 🤔 I would love to hear your thoughts on it. Great video, fun to watch too

*Reads the title* Exactly! It's more than that, it's what we've been trying to tell you! It's a story that you get to play your own retelling of.

Another charm to SMAC is that it was coded in English with the intent that players could easily customize it.

Why does Gandhi look like a Siamese cat in civ 3

What are your thoughts on the alien crossfire expansion? Personally i like a lot of the new factions and mechanics but it feels less cohesive overall. I am very glad that SMAC is available on gog. It was no longer in stores by the time i learned of its existence (around the time i bought civ 3 because 2 wouldnt run on the new windows, xp i think)

We are never getting anything like SMAC again. Corporate overlords wouldn't allow that these days, too much wrongthink in the game, someone might get offended.

The cinematics were so good. Really sold the world

What I love most about SMAC is the sheer amount of freedom it gives you as a player. The faction conversations give you a ton of options, the Workshop gives you tons of options to play around with customizations, the tech tree has a lot of variety, and so forth.

Brian Reynolds is one of the best designers. Colonization and Rise of Nations are of my favorite games!

SMAC was the first civ game i outright owned and i remember playing for literally hours. It was also my first experience to being able to mod games The cutsomisable units in the game is what i use as the gold standard and it one of the reason why myself and others were kind if disappointed with Civ4BE.

Not civ in space. Civ on hallucinogenic nightmares induced by space worms. Bad trip, man. Captain is dead, and you crash.

In contention for my favourite game of all time, certainly top 3. Once your eyes get used to it, it is still a deep and very playable game, I love the unit editor and terraforming.

Also: the game end screen when I retire causes the game to crash, unless I run the game in admin mode. 1. Why? 2. If it does this, why doesn't the game run in admin mode by default?

Zamn, the despotism penalty, almost forgot that was a thing. Haven't really played Civ3 yet, but the despotism penalty existed in FreeCiv, which was my gateway. It was similarly unintuitive, but you got used to it

The thing I most hate about Civ III (and IV) is how unit stacking works. I wish they had kept in the system from Civ II, where if a stack of units is attacked outside of a fort or city, _all_ units in the stack die if you lose the battle. It forces players to tactically spread out their units while fighting, without getting in the way of manoeuvring your units around at home. It makes decisions about how to balance the production of defensive and attacking units much more important, increasing strategic depth, without increasing the game's complexity. Plus, having units spread out across a wide front with varying concentrations is different places looks cooler and is more realistic than having them all in a couple of doomstacks.

can you give a link to the fanfic please ?

You earned a sub with this one.

Having a limited number of turns is the main grievance I had with the game. Otherwise it's really good.