Firaxis.com

[Petek]

Firaxis.com was recently redesigned. The Alpha Centauri section is gone, including the official patches. It's fortunate that these patches have been posted here and elsewhere. Does anyone recall whether any other material from Firaxis is worth trying to resurrect?

[Geo]

Sad to see they're taking distance.
I wonder if this means the company is dismissing its rights to the SMAC(X) title.

[Guv’ner]

Alternate art, which is everywhere and badly formatted copies of Journey to Alpha Centauri and Arrival. I was looking at it the other day, nothing’s been lost.

[Buster's Uncle]

Guv, we have that stuff in our mirror of the AC pages, as you can see under OfficialAC at the top of the page.

[Guv’ner]

I hadn’t realized how comprehensive the mirror was, but I was just confirming that nothing had been lost.

I have some HTML formatted versions of Arrival and Journey if that would be a useful addition?

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah; I haven't looked at that stuff for a while, and I could at least add .htm versions as an option.

The mirror is almost finished, all the Firaxis AC pages be being up and running save the tech sub-pages and the links page desparately needing an update.  I'm still waiting on Kilkakon for the former. (That's a hint, Kil.)  I'd be glad of a list for the latter... (That's a hint for everyone else.)

[Guv’ner]

They could at least have linked here under their “community” button.

I’ll upload my HTML versions tomorrow and you can decide whether their useful.

The techs could be linked into the wiki?

[Buster's Uncle]

[shrugs]  The goal was always to preserve the Firaxis pages in as close as feasible to their original state.  We could add a link to the wiki techs section on the tech master page, for sure.

Come to think of it, I have a big pile of illos for weapons and chassis and the like - might be good to incorporate into the appropriate places in the wiki...

[testdummy653]

Sad to see they're taking distance.
I wonder if this means the company is dismissing its rights to the SMAC(X) title.

Since they don't own the rights....

[Geo]

Sad to see they're taking distance.
I wonder if this means the company is dismissing its rights to the SMAC(X) title.

Since they don't own the rights....

Nobody seems to know for sure what rights or titles they hold over the game. Ask Dale.

[Guv’ner]

Incidental to this thread, I just found a backup of the old Firaxis site for the game:

http://www.datapacrat.com/Art/FIRAXIS/

I don’t know if anyone else has been through it but there is artwork from a very different vision of the game and various other interesting stuff.

[sisko]

I don’t know if anyone else has been through it but there is artwork from a very different vision of the game and various other interesting stuff.

tha artwork was saved here: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=2199.0

[testdummy653]

Nobody seems to know for sure what rights or titles they hold over the game. Ask Dale.

 Firaxis and Sid own the Sid Meier's title.  Ea owns the game rights and has the copyright.
 http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/08/10/alpha-centauri-trademarks-registered-by-ea/

Unless EA told Dale differently, I would assume EA couldn't copyright a title of a game If they have no rights.

[Kilkakon]

@BU
At some level I think the wiki might be a better way to go for holding all that information. Have the quotes, have it all linking together and all that. We could even skin it so it looked similar...

[Buster's Uncle]

I am eager to see you make it work...