Searching the Fungus for a game

[uss1701jb]

I'm looking for a simple 1v1 mean game- any takers?

[t_ras]

Welcome JB!
I say you wait a couple of days for an answer, some players (including me) dont log in every day.
Enjoy!

[Kirov]

Welcome aboard! I was going to look for a 1v1 game myself, so yes, I'm interested. However if t_ras is busy (is he, t_ras?), we may be forced to play a random map and see what happens. What are your preferences? I usually go with standard settings but often suggest banning/nerfing game-breaking stuff.  The definition of it varies from player to player, but often involves EG, CBA, crawlers, choppers, etc. Are yuo up to any such modifications?

[t_ras]

Bussy or not depends on the point of time you finish deciding your settings...

[uss1701jb]

I'm willing to play with a standard rules, random map, and no game breaking stuff.

[Kirov]

I'm sorry, I completely forgot to reply. Are you still there?

As far as game breaking stuff is concerned, opinions differ greatly. Personally, I don't like EG, CBA and copters the most. I'd ban the first two and either ban or nerf copters (common approaches are restricting copters to low attack values or forbidding them from attacking base tiles). And as much as I know that for many SMACers supply crawlers are an essential part of the game, I'd still love to play without them just once, really just once. In fact, a game without both copters and crawlers would be perfect for me.

Do you have any suggestions of your own? Please take a look at the attached file and tell me what you think.

Another idea I'd like to try out once would be to vastly increase the additional cost of prototypes. This would force players not to neglect their arms race even during longer periods of peace... just a fancy of mine.

[uss1701jb]

I'm fine with everything on here except world size. Could it possibly be Large?

[uss1701jb]

I would've put this as an edit, but Google Chrome wasn't cooperating.

a) No additional terrain enhancements near starting locations.

I prefer this rule to not be a rule, as I usually put my Formers on some form of automate (like I said, getting back into the game) and I'm worried I might violate this rule by accident.
Unless there is some way to edit the AI, I would prefer this to not be a rule.

[Kirov]

a) No additional terrain enhancements near starting locations.

No problem, we'll play a large map.

The above rule doesn't prevent any terraforming whatsoever, it just provides that our CMN will not put any additional enhancements like boreholes close to our locations. Once we start, you can do what you want. Although you may want to control your formers directly. When in doubt, just "forest & forget".

So are you fine with that we don't use crawlers and choppers at all? Damn, I hope I won't breach this rule myself, it will be something unusual not to build crawlers everywhere.

Are you willing to make an additional SMAX copy on your computer so that we can use one of the latest patches, either by scient (bug removal) or kyrub (AI improvement)? You don't really need to read or know much about them, these are not mods but simply deal with issues and bugs related to game design.

Also, you're saying you're just getting back into the game? I play some MP these days, so maybe I could suggest you one of the stronger factions like Uni or Hive? I'll take some average like Angels.

Great, now we can look for the CMN! t_ras, do you copy?

[uss1701jb]

I'm fine with that, but:

1. I will most likely be playing on my laptop, which only has the XP patch

2. If one of us happens upon a Unity Chopper, do we have to disband/destroy it?

[uss1701jb]

Also I would prefer to use my go-to strongman, The Pirates, if you don't mind.

[Kirov]

You may want to upgrade to at least the scient's patch, it does nothing to gameplay except for removing some bugs and exploits, and I've never heard it caused any issues.

As to the chopper, good point. I think we can keep and use it, just don't upgrade it (I think it's not possible with the Unity units anyway).

Very well, play the Pirates, I'm always looking forward to see in action any of the less often appearing factions.

[uss1701jb]

Very well, I shall install Scient patch.

I just hope I can do it...

[Kirov]

It's as simple as downloading a zipped terran.exe and replacing your current one with it. You can find it here:

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=27

But t_ras mentioned something about a new release of this patch, so maybe we could wait until I ask him about it.

[Kirov]

BTW, I cannot help but have this feeling that you're not particularly fond of the Peacekeepers...