ZB42: Greetings,

Q: Is there anyone else out there that prefers the original Alpha Centauri over the Crossfire expansion?

Negative takeaways from my Crossfire experience:
- New techs are too many, and just clutter things up
- New weapons and armors, are just unnecessary additions and just add too many extra options
- Immunity to Probes is no longer a thing .. what?
- New random aliens, imho, go against the original storyline
- New random aliens are simply ... annoying, especially that one that fire missiles at you for 30 seconds at a time

Positives in Crossfire
- New factions, yay!
- Cybernetic Consciousness my fave, so much so, that I modded my SMAC to include them
- Love the idea of a water based faction (e.g. Pirates), and am sad that there is no provision for them in SMAC

So anyways, I notice that everything i've read online, is about how Crossfire improved the game. I actually disagree completely with that sentiment, and much prefer the original game. Just curious if only the people who enjoy Crossfire more are the vocal ones, and if there is anyone else out there that enjoys the more simple SMAC game....

Cheers to all Alpha Centauri (SMAC or SMAX) lovers out there :-)

ZB42: The new factions were badly needed since most of the old factions dont seem to be capable of progressing any further after about mid game, they just 'stop' .... I really HATE that!

mystikmind2000: The way they did the update - its actually very wise when you think about it?
How many times have we seen games updated and some of the changes really F--ed up the game and or totally changed the nature of the game? The way they updated Crossfire, its very nicely avoiding to change the nature of the game, i will take that any day of the week over the latter! This should be the standard of game updating that everyone else should follow!

ZB42: LOL, yes! I got to the point where even on Transcend level, it is a cakewalk. Finally broke down, and applied Kyrub's Patch. That HAS helped immensely. Has helped the computer factions greatly on the first half of the game, but because they are stronger developed, it carries into the second half of the game. So it is better, for now....ZB42: Totally agree! How simple, too :-) Other companies should (they won't) take note....

drumdrum: SMAX isn't playable on windows 10. When I try to launch, it loads partialy off screen.

SMAC works just fine.

Anyone know of a fix so I can play SMAX?

ZB42: (...)

mystikmind2000: Kyrubs Patch Eh? I am always keenly interested in good patches, although i never quite managed to bring myself to patch the game so far. The original is just that good, i dont want to change anything except AI performance.