HUMAN BEHAVIOR

all the faction leaders were uniquely insane

10out if 10 game

I think one user put it very well when they talked about how having factions based around geographical divisions rather than purely ideology made the whole thing far less compelling.
I mean, I'm a filthy HUEfag, and Brasilia on paper is exactly the kind of ego-stroking I would enjoy, but it falls completely flat and has no goddamn character compared to the Alpha Centauri factions.
You start Alpha Centauri, Morgan is a /fa/ as fuck african industrialist that talks and behaves like you'd expect the head of an hyper-predatory hyper-consumerist society to do. Meanwhile you start Beyond Earth, and the most memorable quote I can think of coming from the african leader in there is "no village was ever harmed by trade", a shallow regional stereotype that makes it look like the African Union or whatever it was called somehow built a colony ship out of spreads and straw shields.

based Morgan Freeman

>we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine
pretty sure this is a reference to Tolkien. The white tree of Gondor was saved from Numenor's destruction.

Thanks for the info, dork.

What are some examples of entry level infobop, Yea Forums?

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Have sex.

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All factions are the same and the alien planet is not at all threatening. They not only made the game have less features than Civ5 but completely drained any personality that other Sid Meier games had. When they tried to hype it up as a SMAC it ended up being insulting that this is the best that they could end up with.

No

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Inb4 miriamfags come in. The point of the game is that every leader is fucked up.

human hive discards humanity for the greater whole
morgan is ready to destroy planet just like earth was destroyed, just to sate momentary desires
commissioner lel took the corrupt earth system to space. He pulled rank to get his shitty wife on board
santiago is a warmonger
miriam supresses thought going outside of her doctrine.
zakharov doesnt care about the little guy being experimented on
deirdre is willing to give up her humanity for some kind of alien god

hearty kek, didn't know Yea Forums can be funny

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>green party slut wants to be mindbroken and fucked by tentacle monsters
There's SMAC porn, right?

It’s not that they’re all fucked up. In fact every leader could call the weaknesses you highlight their defining strength. It’s more that they’re deeply attached to fundamentally incompatible philosophies (with the exception of Lal) and that each leader gets to implement their vision of society in a virgin land untethered by history. The exciting question the game poses is how all these ideas will fare when thrown against one another.

Lal is as fundamentally broken as everyone else, the failure of the misison goes to show that

His weakness is literal weakness

yes, but the user's point was that he isn't hardline anything and could conceivably find SOME common ground with each one of the other leaders

We must dissent.

I don't see Lal ever finding common ground with Yang.

lal favours a planned economy iirc. it's tenuous, I agree, his human rights shtick puts them at odds, but he's still the closest to being someone the other leaders could agree on

Nigga you gonna be nerve stapled