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Today We Play: Civilization 2 Gold

Suddenly I got this excessive desire to play Civ 2 gold. This game has the best I love in games, runs without problems,  runs without delay and do not have screen resolution problems. I found an old map and modified it for grinding in the highest difficulty. The orange player is my choice, it starts at the bottom and have a way to the center where there are a lot of rivers. All other players start on separated unified land and have plenty of room for expanding. There are also 3 minor islands connected between the land away from the center. The close roads to the center are mountains for efficient defense. Here is the original Civ 2 Gold map. 

But to have a chance on highest difficulty, I made a scenario map with some key features:

• Science is 80/10, which is very slow, something like 160 turns to discover Pottery. For that goody huts are very important as they are the only science source at the beginning. Be sure to find Masonry to build the Pyramids, and more importantly Pottery for Hanging Gardens.
• Money are set to 2k, this is to have a chance to build the Hanging Gardens before the rivals, if you manage to discover Pottery. And optional Pyramids. The other early wonders are expendable.
• Maximum turns are set to 4200, to have a lot of time for grinding.
• Hills terrain is set to 4 food and 8 Trade with irrigation. There is no hill terrain in the game, so you have to make one if you like with Engineers when discover them. This is to test how much money may be made at late game for one turn, i.e. can we make 30k per turn? :)
• And that is pretty much it. Expand fast, mend disorders, get a city in the center covered with mountains, make forts on the mountains, by that time rivals should have cities in the center too, make diplomats and get armies from none to prepare for late game. 

Then try to reach the limits in the late game :)

Recorded Adventure Archive 30.04.2019 - 06.05.2019.

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The Ultimate Fungus | SMAC/SMAX

Have you ever wondered what is the best terrain in AC game? Well, this is the fungus square. Yep, at the late game, from cleaning fungus, I have to grow them back. Hopefully formers can do that. Constructing the Manifold Harmonics secret project, fungus gives 4 food, 4 minerals and 5 energy! This is a really potent town, en? :) No cheats, its reality! With this screenshot, my adventure journal on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Allien Crossfire is completed.

Recorded Adventure Archive 05.03.2019 - 15.03.2019.

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The Thermal Borehole | SMAC/SMAX

Constructing the Weather Paradigm secret project allows the former units to dig for boreholes early in the game. But these insane tile improvements that gives 6 energy and 6 minerals are damaging the planet big time. So it is not good to dig them in the city radius. Instead, use the free squares, that cities can not reach, to dig them and send a supply unit from the cities to collect the precious minerals or energy. Just build a supply in a city, send it over the borehole and press "o". This is additional resources for the city and the Eco damage is not so big.

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Diplomacy | SMAC

Here is the deal. In AC a number of human factions land on the planet in different locations. But there are also two alien factions that may land later. Meeting them gives almost all of the standard diplomatic options. In Alpha Centauri game, the computer players are a bit more aggressive than the modern "civilization" games.

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Research Goals | SMAC

Before new games, we can set if research projects are selectable or not. There are 4 main fields of research marked in different colors, green, yellow, red and white(nor visible on the screenshot). They are all important, but the most important is to focus on forest resources, thus discovering more yellow and green techs.

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