SinglePlayer League, SPL-01 Game

[Mart]

More of the latter; I stick to the 'zoom and erase' option, but it is time-consuming.

What I do, is opening HQ base, then do everything I need to in base screens, going from one to a next one, until I reach HQ again.
It's like the check, that I start manually.
F4 is useful, giving basic summary of current production item, turns remaining, etc. There is also something I lack on base screens: minerals gathered as a number.

Darn, I played some, but got stuck with ICS. I remember now that single player seems to be mostly about former management...

This is what I tried in Unity Mod - make formers more productive, so you need only a fraction of them. That required lowering turns for specific terraform actions.
But this is for another thread in modding.

[Kirov]

This is what I tried in Unity Mod - make formers more productive, so you need only a fraction of them. That required lowering turns for specific terraform actions.
But this is for another thread in modding.

I don't think this is going to help the main problem, which is that 99.9% single player games can be won with virtually nothing else than colony pods, formers and crawlers. The "Infinite" in the ICS is not really that far from the dictionary definition. The map size is the limit.

I opened my previous save from 2190 and nah, at 60 formers and counting I'm not gonna finish that game. Maybe I could start anew and try to go for a conquest, but I think any kind of reload would be a violation of the rules. Either way, I'm not going to transcend or corner the marker in a single player anytime soon.

[Mart]

So excessive micromanagement makes such ranking games too much time consuming?
Yet this is vanila game. Any mod in this case would be not a standard game. There is no easy fix to this.

[Kirov]

I'm not saying anything about ranking games. I'm just saying there's a reason I haven't played raw single player for years. The toughest game settings (abundant native life, lots of rainy/rocky for AI, playing Morgan on a tiny planet against 6 Usurpers, etc.) mean nothing and require no ingenuity. Maybe at some point I would give this game another shot aiming for conquest (I already started to play some turns but gave up), but what I'm really open for is a super hard scenario. Without that, I just can't get off of SMAC by myself anymore.

[binTravkin]

I started this but then accidentally clicked on F1 while choosing tech and I had to force-close it due to being unable to get back to tech picking screen.

So, I already know things that makes it much less ironman.

And I had such a good start..

[Mart]

It's ok. Everyone gets some problems with similar things now and then. "Iron man" as a setting here, is to keep some standard in the best/reasonable way. Giving it more competition feel.

[binTravkin]

I didn't notice Unite Behind Me As Supreme Leader is a valid victory option and was going for transcendence.

[binTravkin]

Do I remember it right that you need 2/3 votes to win as Supreme Leader?

[Mart]

F1 screen info says 3/4 votes in Planetary Council (and MMI tech).

[binTravkin]

You have mail.

[Mart]

I made entry in the first post.
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