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Hehe thank you :). AI stuffed the bases with defenders again, I am surprised how tough they are. Btw I was looking at tech numbers and we are nowhere close to that tech level in this game, your Deirdre is nuts. I don't know how you win against that. Planet Busters and nuke her maybe - will help with population difference as well. I would use it as last resort, but it should do the job.

Hey, glad to see that you like it! That was my goal, to give us Alpha Centauri enjoyers this kind of content, gg game, a bit of roleplaying and imagination in great sci-fi environment. I like your ideas, I will think about it, both Lal and aliens are interesting - I think I could create something like that. Will try to change format a bit, to make it more interesting, a bit more story-like, fewer episodes but more editing, hopefully better quality overall. Thanks for support! :)

It was revived a bit, both Steam and GoG released Alpha Centauri (its only 3-5 $) and there are Alpha Centauri, Thinker and Will to Power discord communities, some active people there. Mods are great and are developed actively so it is refreshing and fun. If you have any extra time join for sure ; )

Well it is not that great - check capital, it has 2 nutrient resources but on arid land. Also not a single good green tile. US Unity Wreckage is awful to settle but you get these units and some energy at least. And we have those boreholes to north, thats great, but you need time to unlock yields, its just 0-2-2 now. Mount planet is to the west, but good land is under fungus and eastern side is always arid. Good land is on the other side of the mountain, a bit far. And AI will start to take land around. Mod doesn't improve map quality really - but it does make it a bit more pangea like. Thats cool. It actually nerfs jungle to have less tiles to make the map more balanced - jungle is op.

@@EdooGamingH 2 nutrient forests are enough to almost permanently settler spam, arid doesn't matter if you can just forest everything and still get to 7 pop in capitol. Boreholes will save you like 50 turns of terraforming later, but I agree they are not useful early. Unity wreckage is awesome, it's basically a massive early production spike between the scouting units and the free energy. But the most important thing is the information about AI spawns, it lets you plan out your early settling pattern. The last thing you want with Zack is sending 3 pods in the same direction to go for good tiles/landmarks only to realize 10 turns later that you forward settled Miriam. The reason I was asking whether it's a mod is because there seems to be a large number of yield bonuses that didn't come from pods, that looked strange somehow. Yes, jungle is stupid. If Yang settles it, it's going to be an 16 hour slog of a game even if you manage to win.

@@omgopet I mean you are right - its a good start, although I wouldn't say its great from what I can see. You can surely get significantly better starts, monoliths, jungles and what not. I did get two mineral resources closer that is great and I think a bit rare. Nutrient resources seem to be somewhat regular - not sure actually if mod improved on that but I doubt it. Regarding settling you are right, I had nice space - even though.. if you watch couple episodes in there is annoying pirate who likes to settle his bases in odd places so I couldnt grab all that land around.

I dont think so, I will try to find out and repost here. You should be able to reload autosaves and find out when sanctions started, game is autosaving every turn.

Should be 10 turns.. but dont know how can you see when it finishes unfortunately.

@@EdooGamingH Thanks

It is tough when they are on another continent - Cruisers with adv. reactors can ferry lots of troops, but as you said - its a tech race. She should have very green units most likely. I had Deirdre somewhat strong in my Spartan game, worms can be trouble and her Needlejets as well.

​@@EdooGamingH Yeah, I'm considering bribing her neighbors to go to war with Deirdre (they've all fought with her before) but even though it may distract her it may also give her even more bases. It's 2305 and Deirdre's tech income is 3600 per turn which is insane, she's beelining to the Secrets of... techs. She has the Seeker Algorithm so tech stealing is more difficult too. I'm beelining towards Digital Sentience to be the first to get Cybernetic.

@@EdooGamingH Yeah, it's 2305 and Deirdre's tech income is 3600 per turn which is insane. It's going to be a challenge to keep up.

Hey, yes its a shortcut, when you have selected a unit press 'a' and it will open the window. Its in menu Action -> Activate Now... but shortcut is convenient.

@@EdooGamingH Thanks

I think if I stay passive he would run away with the game and win. Really good job by AI, who would have thought..

@@EdooGamingH Absolutely. Thinker makes use of almost any feature in the game and does it well. In my current game I play as the Consciousness and Lady Deirdre has been doing really well. I play with tech stagnation on and it's around 2290 and she has reached 3300 tech income per turn. Despite my efforts I can't reach higher than 2400 yet. I beelined desperately for Universal Translator so I could stay ahead (and finished the project 1 turn ahead of Deirdre) just a little in technology but now I'm unsure which way to go next. I need to figure out what Deirdre is researching/beelining for (my infiltration expired just at the wrong moment) So many decisions and I love it.

I am trully surprised that Morgan is doing well, that faction has quite a few challenges. Good AI!

Mod: github.com/tnevolin/thinker-doer/ just go to Releases, right side. Short install guide here if you need it: ua-cam.com/video/RmxtDEAvAS8/v-deo.html

You should definitely try it, I would say AI is surprisingly good. It can have some troubles early on occasionaly (mostly due to support and minerals), but once it grows up a bit it is doing great job. Does really good job terraforming and from there on its strong. Recommending the mod ;) You can skim through some episodes and see how AI progresses.

@@EdooGamingH Yeah, maybe I will put on your LP before going to sleep...

I think this could be misinterpreted: I didn't mean it in a disparaging way, that is the only way I consume let's plays...

@@frogmoth Hehe I know, believe it or not I do the same. Before sleep I watch some and is part of the reason I started these let's plays. I couldn't find the ones I liked for Alpha Centauri.. and decided to create something that people like me who like the game can actually watch. Because lots of other games like Civ 4,5,6 have really good let's plays.

True, I mixed up things here, Plex is right. You want this combo for Hive in general play to get lots of energy, but you cannot pop boom with it - have to pick Planned. Unfortunately, Hive is having it even harder to pop boom than I thought. Thx for pointing it out ; )

Agree & correct, should maybe have a slide for that. Ideally you pop boom once or twice per game to pop 7 and/or 14, all the bases at the same time. But it is easier said than done - takes some planning and setup to do it.

I would expect it, no reason why it would not, but will confirm if I get response from dev.

Got the response from dev: "It wont retroactively change the lifecycle for worms but it will apply immediately for any new units built on a base."

Well good for invasion like that certainly. Some of these things are better on larger maps, but I cant force myself to play on large maps, i think i would never finish the game. Had same problem with civilization games.

Don't worry you can ignore it, I already installed and tried it and developer is working on a mod for years now. Operating system doesn't like that there is application when you download it so it warns you it could be a virus. Its a thinker.exe file that is a mod. Safe 100%.

@@EdooGamingH I assumed was a false positive. Nightmare to get working had to use old computer to download then extract file before putting on thumb drive and transferring to modern computer. Any other way and file wouldn't download or zip would be deleted. Working now at least.

Aaah thank you, mixing things up a bit, well hopefully we will replace these slow tractors with real formers.

Or you could argue that it is the N-squared effect of every satellite being able to supply every base that is too strong in the first place. It also scales badly with map size, since if you have more bases you can more quickly build more satellites, each of them supplying all of the bases.

I agree, both are pretty much broken, especially when comboed, picking up Cloudbase Academy and then spamming lots of satellites, its just too much. Unfortunately Thinker mod tries not to change balance much, keeping it close to vanilla so there are more broken things. Will To Power rebalances some of these, although Cloudbase Academy and satellites are same there. This is one of the reasons why I play blind research + keeping to default faction choice (Discover for Zakh) and roleplay a bit. Otherwise I could always gun for those best Secret Projects and then game does become too easy. I went here for Supercollider which is not that great compared to Cloudbase Academy.. but it will be fun : ).

I am surprised that people play that long, I dont think I ever played much past late 2300 or 2400. Developers probably didnt consider this so its not designed probably. But I think modders could fix these problems, maybe even its not too hard. I will post something on discord to see what they say.

@ all right !

@@EdooGamingH also, what ? is there an alpha centauri discord ?

@@adalgisounoqualunque9033 Oh yes there is, mods are nicely active and even main ac discord is ok, there are these 3: discord.gg/sbAHS6GX discord.gg/UuF3F7vjf9 discord.gg/XdFuwWzzku

Oh I didn't even know about that, wow that is interesting and makes them worth even more. Cool, thanks for the tip! Glad that I can help with the guide ; )

Anime miriam is cool :D

I think I did pick it up just a bit later and rushed production with $$, I forgot here while talking : ( easy to get distracted.

Immune to probes, bonus to attack. Gotta love it, Miriam is fun!

Thank you. Yes I was planning to actually, since we had great discussion about drone mechanics few days ago on discord. I think I understand now pretty well how the mechanic is working. Just need some time to put it together, few days, and I am going to try to create some pictures and stuff to improve the quality of tutorials ; ). Picking up on some editing skills.

Glad to hear that :) Its good time to jump in, community moved a bit on discord, there is some activity now, and I guess we are all waiting for Civ7 to come out.

Surprised me as well.. he probably had colony pod on side towards his base and when i built mine base, borders spread so he continued moving to west until he found the spot xD just wait to see what happens in next episode :D hint at thumbnail

I was considering this, but I think ultimately it is worth it to keep researching because every tech you get, you can likely trade for another tech to one of the AIs. So even you lose 40% of labs energy .. with single tech trade you are already in net positive. I decided to keep the tech up and still invest in science also because if I completely kill research I would be totally reliant on stealing and thats not a good place to be.. yet. Maybe a bit later in the game when we can easily still techs. Btw WTP made it even harder to trade AND steal techs.. larger chance of failure to stop this kind of allin tech tactics. I may reconsider later, we will see how it goes.

That is correct from what I remember as well. I know that I read that mods like this one enable extra landmarks to spawn (if the can fit on the map). There is landmark call Nessus Canyon for example that can be added to maps, but its never on the maps in base game or expansions. Then for example Uranium fields are often not on the map.. it may be that map generation could not fit them on the map or it rolls what to add on the map each time, so it leaves some landmarks out. Not sure actually..

Scary.. I think I will be reading all the books, just need some extra time to get to it.

Fundamentalist socialist like make some sense with her if you stretch your imagination.. strong belief, care for her people, focusing growth and manufacturing good while controlling things with government not to let people venture into "sinful" - by her defintion, category. In similar way I think you can image Miriam with using Free Market economy, it just may not be as free as we have it today. Rich game ; ). Hm about Democratic -1 Planet, I could actually ask dev about it to see his exact thought. It makes sense to me since Democratic promotes growth and freedom and that leads to overpopulation to some degree at least - like we have today, and people fight for their own rights - at expense of the planet. We do it today basically that way. So we have now green movements to counter it. Dev was also looking for a way to slightly nerf Democratic policy.. maybe there is more to it I am not sure. Thx for support!

I was looking at Civ2, never played it, but oh boy.. that seems now old and hard to play. Civ3 on the other hand has aged pretty well. Might maybe try that a bit, maybe worth some videos.

I think it is definitely more fun than vanilla, probably even more fun than Thinker mod. So I got further in the game Lal is having silk armor (5 def) and i have 5 str weapon.. and he seems to have airplanes already - i am in slight trouble actually. AI protects bases better - Thinker just made upgrade defenders improvement in v4.6 - hope that will help in pure Thinker mod.

The mod author wants to make morale bonuses more valuable - this makes it harder to fight worms, to use SEs that give morale, harder to get elite units. It boosts military facilities importance as well - and he even changed that it is not guaranteed to level up from very green to green after one battle (as in vanilla game).

@@EdooGamingH OK does he remove factions/SE with negative morale as well?

@@Harquebuze No, the idea is that factions with lower morale have that morale for a reason as they have another advantages. So i think Gaians have -1 morale and start with Very Green.. so they have actually more trouble to get decent morale. But they do focus on worms which helps them there. Fundamentalist and Power are +2 Morale, Wealth is -3!

@@Harquebuze Gonna see how it works out.. for example Lal may have better tech than me but Miriam is better in combat, Spartans as well.

Makes sense.. I got scared by that explosion lol :D

Hey, check github.com/induktio/thinker?tab=readme-ov-file and there you have Release version link. Also lots of info about mod is there. And I would suggest joining discord as well there is nice community there: discord.com/channels/1081332929436856460/1081339859819565106/1293841668528930899

v.4.6 is latest release

@@EdooGamingH How do I see it That thinker Is installed correctly

@@EdooGamingH Simple thinker Copy and done?

@@LPYenlo87 Yeah copy and paste, you run the game with thinker.exe and in game you can press alt + t to see the version of thinker mod

Ok will do, it actually takes practice :) to talk clearly and to keep distance from mic. I am guilty of playing tired though, I will try to record videos when I am fresh and energetic in the future. Not happy that I recorded some while a bit tired and got also sick a bit from a virus.

@@EdooGamingH yep, you can tell ... otherwise great insights and really enjoying the series. IMO, for more complex games you need commentary in order to explain better what is going on, what decisions are taken and why. Again, just my humble opinion. :) Cheers

Actually thats a quite good idea for a short video - I should probably present the mods separately so people know what they are about. Thanks ;)

:) Go jump to part 1 xD you just had a glimpse in the future. Should have asked people to like the video, i think youtube recommends these a lot based on likes and views.