Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Command Nexus => Topic started by: funbot on September 13, 2014, 09:32:37 AM

Title: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 13, 2014, 09:32:37 AM

Hey guys, long long long time no see. I started to play alpha a bit, and then i started to crave some non-Ai challenge after I swallowed whole continent under my rule wayyy too easily for my taste  ;lol. So if  there is any spots to fill or anyone eager to start new one, give me shout/pm/poke :)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: MetallEater on September 15, 2014, 09:13:32 PM

Hi!  We can play!

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: Yitzi on September 16, 2014, 05:12:02 AM

Quote from: funbot on September 13, 2014, 09:32:37 AM

Hey guys, long long long time no see. I started to play alpha a bit, and then i started to crave some non-Ai challenge after I swallowed whole continent under my rule wayyy too easily for my taste  ;lol. So if  there is any spots to fill or anyone eager to start new one, give me shout/pm/poke :)

Not to discourage you from MP, but one of the goals of many of the alternate-rule mods enabled by my patch is to make things harder for human players, especially on the highest difficulty levels, so if you found it too easy on Transcend not using my patch, you might want to try my patch and change the drone rules and ecodamage formula to make it harder, and then try it on Transcend.

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: sisko on September 16, 2014, 07:15:54 AM

so, this is going to be PBEM or IP game?

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 07:20:51 AM

Quote from: MetallEater on September 15, 2014, 09:13:32 PM

Hi!  We can play!

yay! \o/ \o/ \o/

Soooo: PBEM, unoffcial patch 1.0, and SMACX, right? And for sake of speeding things up, how about we do random map, instead of having someone use map editor? :)

So heres my usual ruleset i like to play, all negotiable ofc:

Transcend difficulty

Small/standard map with 7 players, rest spots filled with AI

full bat crazy random with map conditions :3

All victory conditions enable

Tech stagnation enable

Spoils of war Not enable

Aggressive AI Not enable

Randomise Ai personality or agenda Not enable

Aaand a hidden map

Beside those, i can go each way with rest of the rules like supply pods or not, or Do or Die or flexible start etc. :)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: t_ras on September 16, 2014, 07:26:31 AM

What about some 1on1 PBEM?

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 07:32:31 AM

Quote from: t_ras on September 16, 2014, 07:26:31 AM

What about some 1on1 PBEM?

Well I wouldn't mind that, though thats all up to metaleater. I personally love the random factor that Ai brings, if no other reason than to hide my lack of skills lol

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: t_ras on September 16, 2014, 08:18:26 AM

We can have a H2H AND a game with ME :)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 08:39:31 AM

Quote from: t_ras on September 16, 2014, 08:18:26 AM

We can have a H2H AND a game with ME :)

oooooo, derp, you mean you and me? lol, i though you meant that me and metal would play 1vs1 without Ai XP. derp derp

Sur we could have a go, but i would like to first wait for the other game that metalhead started there (metalhead you kirov bodi mallax) if i end up there eventually :P. Just to make sure i wont have too many games on my head and overtax myself. On which can happen quite easily for me on smac/smax mp lol.

And yeh, whats H2H? :P

-edit note: and all the sudden metaleater is metalhead to me, i dont even..-

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: t_ras on September 16, 2014, 08:52:52 AM

Had to head :)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 09:03:26 AM

Quote from: t_ras on September 16, 2014, 08:52:52 AM

Head* to head :)

Right! right

(you had typo there i assume? :3)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: t_ras on September 16, 2014, 09:18:19 AM

No, no typo. Ill have your head  >:)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 09:37:51 AM

noooooo, I like muh head ;_; lmao

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 05:16:50 PM

Quote from: funbot on September 16, 2014, 07:20:51 AM

yay! \o/ \o/ \o/

Soooo: PBEM, unoffcial patch 1.0, and SMACX, right? And for sake of speeding things up, how about we do random map, instead of having someone use map editor? :)

So heres my usual ruleset i like to play, all negotiable ofc:

Transcend difficulty

Small/standard map with 7 players, rest spots filled with AI

full bat crazy random with map conditions :3

All victory conditions enable

Tech stagnation enable

Spoils of war Not enable

Aggressive AI Not enable

Randomise Ai personality or agenda Not enable

Aaand a hidden map

Beside those, i can go each way with rest of the rules like supply pods or not, or Do or Die or flexible start etc. :)

We can try. And I have Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5j, or which patch do u mean?

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 05:22:19 PM

Quote from: sisko on September 16, 2014, 07:15:54 AM

so, this is going to be PBEM or IP game?

Do u wanna play IP game? I would  play someone

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 05:29:31 PM

nah, not the Yitzi's.  The "official" unofficial patch 1.0 of aliencrossfire. I'm sure you find it in google :3

But k, if i'll make the game then, which faction you like to be?

Quote from: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 05:22:19 PM

Quote from: sisko on September 16, 2014, 07:15:54 AM

so, this is going to be PBEM or IP game?

Do u wanna play IP game? I would  play someone

Doubt sisko is here to play, but to be a guideline to get things operate smoothly :)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: sisko on September 16, 2014, 05:35:37 PM

Quote from: funbot on September 16, 2014, 05:29:31 PM

Doubt sisko is here to play, but to be a guideline to get things operate smoothly :)

you're right, funbot. :)

@MetallEater: it would be very hard for me to find time for an IP game. 

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 07:26:20 PM

Quote from: funbot on September 16, 2014, 05:29:31 PM

nah, not the Yitzi's.  The "official" unofficial patch 1.0 of aliencrossfire. I'm sure you find it in google :3

But k, if i'll make the game then, which faction you like to be?

Yes i found it. And why not Kyrub's latest patch, where children creche, brood pit combat bonuses now work like they should.

I can play any faction:) But SMACX factions are not balanced well. And i dont know how do you determine factions which  we play. Or we just choose facion, except aliens? So i would to play cyborgs

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 08:21:17 PM

Quote from: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 07:26:20 PM

And why not Kyrub's latest patch, where children creche, brood pit combat bonuses now work like they should.

Good point, kyrub's patch it is then :)

Quote from: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 07:26:20 PM

I can play any faction:) But SMACX factions are not balanced well. And i dont know how do you determine factions which  we play. Or we just choose facion, except aliens? So i would to play cyborgs

For AI factions, I'm was thinking to use good ol' random button. And I'm thinking picking the Datajacks for myself ^_^

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 08:43:21 PM

Ok, and what's ocean coverage, erosive forces and lifeforms?

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: Yitzi on September 16, 2014, 09:18:04 PM

Quote from: funbot on September 16, 2014, 08:21:17 PM

Quote from: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 07:26:20 PM

And why not Kyrub's latest patch, where children creche, brood pit combat bonuses now work like they should.

Good point, kyrub's patch it is then :)

Although there's a bug in Kyrub's patch where changing production causes you to lose that turn's mineral production; my patch, starting with 2.4, fixes this (though I think the first stable version after that is 2.4c; 2.5j also appears to be stable and fixes more bugs (including the one where defeating a human player will crash the game), and 3.1d fixes even more bugs (most notably the one that would cause artillery to attack each other) and, while I cannot confirm that it is stable, will likely be fixed quite quickly if you find a bug that wasn't in Kyrub's patch.

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 09:26:31 PM

Quote from: Yitzi on September 16, 2014, 09:18:04 PM

Although there's a bug in Kyrub's patch where changing production causes you to lose that turn's mineral production; my patch, starting with 2.4, fixes this (though I think the first stable version after that is 2.4c; 2.5j also appears to be stable and fixes more bugs (including the one where defeating a human player will crash the game), and 3.1d fixes even more bugs (most notably the one that would cause artillery to attack each other) and, while I cannot confirm that it is stable, will likely be fixed quite quickly if you find a bug that wasn't in Kyrub's patch.

And here I was just seconds away posting the save file : P. But yeh, if you put it that way, gues its better to use your patch then after all. How about we try give 3.1d a test run metal?

-edit: and yeh, all ocean coverage and all will be also random metal-

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 09:52:28 PM

except now with your latest patch Yitzi my game started to [complaint or disagreeable woman]about line in txt file. Attachment has screenshot.

I tried overwriting with original txt file, but it didnt help.

-edit never mind, realised what i did wrong now. Didn't realise i had to install 3.0 too. It's late so eyes are getting tired and cranky.-

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 10:08:36 PM

Ohkay, so heres the savefile. Addition to rules mentioned before:

Planet size: Standard

Ocean coverage, erosive and alien life: Random random random

Do or Die: Enable

Blind research: Not enable

Supply pods: Only at landing site

Random events can occur

and no timewarp :P

AI opponets are: Miriam, pirates, hive, cult of the planet and Gaia

And game has been now patched with Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 3.1d. Take it away metal, you have the first turn. Hopefully all works well.

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: MetallEater on September 16, 2014, 10:40:34 PM

OK. Now installing last Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch. And how many turns per day usually?

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 16, 2014, 11:58:39 PM

Well I can vouch for making 1 turn per / day as minium, though its likely it will be much more often thanks to my next none existing social life :p. Results may vary though. And I'll notify if theres chance for not making even 1 turn per / day.

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: funbot on September 17, 2014, 12:05:37 AM

I gues i should make new thread for savefile trading, just to make things proper and clean

-edit Done, theres a thread in the forum "Metaleaters and funbots game of random" where we will trade our savefiles from now on-

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: t_ras on September 17, 2014, 07:42:25 AM

So, IP or PBEM?

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: sisko on September 17, 2014, 08:03:57 AM

PBEM and already started here: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=11156 (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=11156)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: t_ras on September 17, 2014, 08:28:00 AM

Enjoy :)

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: Kirov on September 17, 2014, 07:09:15 PM

MetalEater, can you post you preferences as to an IP game (i.e. your time zone and time you can play) and I'll try to have that in mind and squeeze a game into my schedule. I doubt it will happen over the next week or two, though.

Title: Re: I'm back and wanna play \o/
Post by: MetallEater on September 17, 2014, 09:18:20 PM

My timezone +02:00. My hamachi network still exist Name: Domai. Pass: 123. I'm ready to play starting at 17:00 till morning) And I can play with any preferences. I played many times  in Civilization 3 with Hamachi. So i think  its wil not be a problem.