The affinities of Civilization: Beyond Earth: Supremacy

[BlaneckW]

I personally am above such things as fun.

[DrazharLn]

All the tech in Supremacy has been optimized and slimmed down. There’s no bulk or extraneous features.

Before a bunch of pictures of garish units. They're not pared down, they've got extra fins and glowing cockpit replacements and stuff. The original "cavalry" (WTF) unit is much more utilitarian than the final one.

Not impressed.

[Trenacker]

It seems like the affinities are extremely shallow.

Has anybody seen more than the four basic unit sprites for each faction? Are they going to use those as the base and rely on unseen promotions to differentiate my guys from other factions' guys?

[Buster's Uncle]

For that matter, will the AI always go for the same affinities according to faction personality, or always try to be different from you and others?  What would be the more interesting way to design that?

[Lorizael]

They've said the AI's choice of affinity is dependent on a couple factors, most of which are based on environmental circumstances. Choosing different affinities for the sake of spicing things up was mentioned as one of the deciding factors.

[Geo]

Are they going to use those as the base and rely on unseen promotions to differentiate my guys from other factions' guys?

It's likely, but sofar I've seen pointed out an extra cavalry-alike Supremacy unit (perhaps artillery), and a sort of 2-man team with heavy gun for both Supremacy and Purity.

[Buster's Uncle]

I wonder if any of this is going to be feasible to retro-mod onto the SMACX engine?  We'll totally need to look at doing that when it comes out...

[Geo]

I wonder if any of this is going to be feasible to retro-mod onto the SMACX engine?  We'll totally need to look at doing that when it comes out...

Well, you could start with renaming Eudaimonia, Cybernetic, and Thought Control to Harmony, Supremacy, and Purity.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yyep - and much of the graphics could be adapted...  It's a good engine.

[Geo]

Wait a sec. Are you talking about introducing or emulating Civ:BE graphics in SMAC(X), or the other way around?

[Buster's Uncle]

I'd involve myself in SMACX on the ciV engine, Planetfall-style, if that was the goal.

We oughtta be thinking about that, too - why wait for the only vaguely SMACXish version in the works to come out?  But not my point.

[Geo]

AFAIK, your computer can't run CiV and you don't even own it?

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah, but someone with a background in these things was talking about doing that on the Five engine the other day - not having it would hold me back, but obviously I wouldn't mind contributing...

[DrazharLn]

I think BUncle was suggesting CiV:BE -> SMACX.

Civ V isn't great for mods (no multiplayer support at all), but they claim BE is better.

[Nikolai]

The original "cavalry" (WTF) unit is much more utilitarian than the final one.

What is so WTF about a cavalery unit? You do know modern cavalery doesn't use horses, right?