Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth

[KoolNoodles]

There are mods for Civ5 that allow stacking, either civvie units or military or both. They are also scaleable depending on preference. They kinda work, and worth looking into if you still play Civ5.

 

[Drakron]

AC's solution was dumb (everything EXPLODES!!!!)

No, AC had was area damage that makes sense.

The solution to stacks is area damage, you can stack but be vulnerable to being bombed so megastacks can be wiped, the real issue with megastacks was because damage was mostly on unit it mean it would roll and unless they dropped a nuke nothing could stop it, allow bombers to deal area damage and things start to change.

Its easy to make the system reach a point were megastacks became impractical by simply allow zone damage and make the AI create mix units stacks, if you want to make a one unit per hex then make the concept of "army" and allow each army be composed of different types of units (archer, swordsman, etc ...) so you dont end up with entirely redundant units because they were designed for esorting other units.

 

[Average Manatee]

AC didn't have area damage. The way AC worked was that if your unit died, other units in the same square suffered damage from that. In other words, your units just exploded on death.

 

[Galdred]

AC's solution was dumb (everything EXPLODES!!!!)

No, AC had was area damage that makes sense.

The solution to stacks is area damage, you can stack but be vulnerable to being bombed so megastacks can be wiped, the real issue with megastacks was because damage was mostly on unit it mean it would roll and unless they dropped a nuke nothing could stop it, allow bombers to deal area damage and things start to change.

Its easy to make the system reach a point were megastacks became impractical by simply allow zone damage and make the AI create mix units stacks, if you want to make a one unit per hex then make the concept of "army" and allow each army be composed of different types of units (archer, swordsman, etc ...) so you dont end up with entirely redundant units because they were designed for esorting other units.

Actually, if you want warfare to be interesting, another soultion to stack is supply, and encirclement.
If you only have a few big stacks, it becomes trivial to cut them off, and they should fight at very reduced efficiency until they starve out. That is the solution used by most wargames (even though they usually implement a soft or hard stacking limit too).

 

[Volrath]

Give me at least two better games of this genre released in the last ten years.

having no contestant doesn't make you any better.

Then what are you compare it against? What is your imaginary dream game that Civ V can't hold a candle to?

Civ IV

 

[Space Satan]

Prugressiv Develupurz at the interview.
"We fucked up"

 

[flyingjohn]

New game play video from quill18:

 

[Zeriel]

I can't believe we have 48 pages of discussion about this shitpile.

 

[Azira]

We're very loyal to our excrement fetish it seems.

 

[flyingjohn]

All the codex needs now is a 500 thread on arcania and the decline will be complete.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Hellraiser]

Personality traits are interesting, Space Merkel looks bland.

 

[Jaedar]

The game also has a free weekend up, if someone wants to experience the decline first hand.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Space Satan]

Absolutely disgusting

 

[Monaldinio]

Pretty sure he stopped development period. The same version on the Civ.de is also on the CivFanatics forum. I believe even the aliens were fully fleshed out, so there's not much else to work on.

Never stoped modding Conflict on Chiron as you can see....
I think you speak about v2.0...
Now its v3.2...and v3.3 is only one week away.



Conflict on Chiron - Sid Meiers's Alpha Centauri vs. Call to Power!

NEW

BETA Patch 1 - 11.08.2015

* Fixed the Menu-Bugs

 

[vonAchdorf]

The expansion has been released.

 

[Mr. Pink]

cool, maybe it will be at the level of civilization 5 vanilla in two more expansions.

 

[RhodokMasterRaceOfficial]

If SMAC was playable with all 14 factions at once this entire game would've been already obsolete at the announcement event for it.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

according to what i've heard, it's much, much, MUCH, HUGELY INCREDIBLY MUCH worse than vanilla.

 

[Riso]

There's a demo, how about you try that instead of relying on hearsay of idiots.

 

[Khorne]

Think you can upload it somewhere else than Game/File Front? It has a inane downloads policy that excludes a lot of countries from downloading - Brazil and China, just to remember two. I use Mega and Mediafire for FODD mod.

mirror @ filebin

2dda7e08c6f69707574cfd7a54aa9684  BETA Patch 1.rar

 

[RhodokMasterRaceOfficial]

*the ultimate Alpha Centauri experience is when somebody finally figures out when to surpass the faction limit.

Has there been any progress made on achieving this? So far it's basically the only reason you'd play Beyond Earth, because you can use this mod to replace all of the shit politically correct copy+paste factions in the base game with the more diverse and interesting ones in SMAC/X.

 

[LizardWizard]

according to what i've heard, it's much, much, MUCH, HUGELY INCREDIBLY MUCH worse than vanilla.

It's bad but nothing is worse than Civ5 vanilla

 

[Stompa]

It's bad but nothing is worse than Civ5 vanilla

I figure vanilla Beyond Earth is definitely worse. Both have made a lot of mistakes, both lack features, but while Civ5 at least retained the whole historical kitchen sink flavour, BE is offensively bland, like they didn't even try.