Health, orbital layer and terraforming all look good. Can't stand how the original AC AI has no concept of how to wage war. Note: The (presumably) advanced AI of BE is one of the big justifications to make this mod. (For example, they could have semi-random population booms about every 50 years instead of normal steady growth). Set the Progenitor rules to reflect their alien traits. Give the Consciousness and Free Drones a late start. Add a few new city states to such as the factions from the Smaniac mod. Set the Planet Cult and the Data Angels as city states rather than full out factions. Give each faction distinct positives and negatives so everyone not only has a unique play style but also natural friends and enemies. Every AC player has longed to wipe out all thirteen of his competitors. Include all the original fourteen factions, with the possibility of using them all in a single game. All the units already come in sci-fi flavors - no need to make new models other than mind worms. The hexes are gorgeous too.įrom the look of it, BE has this down ace: one unit per hex and actual battlefield tactics. The map won't have elevations but we can tolerate that. After adding fungus and tinting the palette reddish-brown, everything will look perfect. The graphics already depict an alien planet. Hopefully, they come in peace.) What follows is a sketch on how to mod Beyond Earth into version of Alpha Centauri that extends the original gameplay and retains the character. The Hive is amassing a few troops on our border. (Am currently involved in a six player multiplayer game. I haven't bought a new 4x Firaxis game since Civ III but I still play old AC every now and then. Quite a lot of us looked forward to Beyond Earth as an Alpha Centauri II but, apparently, it's not.

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