Theoclymenus: Forgive me if I'm being obtuse here but I have just re-downloaded Alpha Centauri in order to get the full experience with Alien Crossfire. I am now confused on two fronts :

1. When the install finishes I am asked whether I wish to launch the game and am given two options : Alpha Centauri or Alien Crossfire. I choose Alien Crossfire and the game launches fine. I take a look just to make sure everything is working and find I can select several new factions - but none of the original ones. I have never played the game before but is this what I should be finding or should I be able to play as one of the original factions ? Is Alien Crossfire a completely separate game or an add-on / add-in ?

2. When I launch the game a second time I double-click on the desktop icon and the game launches as Alpha Centauri minus the expansion. It seems that every time I want to play AlienCrossfire I will have to reinstall the game because the option to launch Alien Crossfire is only available from the installer at the end of the install. Double-clicking the desktop icon seemingly takes me to vanilla Alpha Centauri.

I'm probably missing something very simple here so apologies if I am.