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Spore is the only game with terraforming in it in the last few years

MyrmidonMyrmidon
edited 2013-02-25 20:46:35 in General

This is bad, because when ever I want to terraform, I must play Spore.

Comments

  • FuschlatzFuschlatz
    edited 2013-02-26 00:56:26
    A Mind You Do NOT Want To Read

    What about Minecraft? It's rather painstaking, especially in Survival mode, but it's still terraforming, right? Haha, sorry, I probably should have checked my dictionary first.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Not really. You can't go to a planet that can't support life, then make it support life.


    I feel like I've played other games with terraforming, but I can't think what.

  • Hookah_HashishHookah_Hashish
    edited 2013-02-26 01:06:42

    I know it isn't actually terraforming but rather landscaping, but I think the Zoo Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon (but mainly Zoo Tycoon) games are pretty fun to just mess around with virtual environments in.

  • OctoOcto
    I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

    Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri of course! Plant farms or forests, build mines and roads, raise mountains, fuck the planet up, receive mindworm attacks in retaliation!

  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    I always played as the Gaia people (I forget the faction's proper name) in Alpha Centauri cuz I remember you could somehow befriend the mindworms.

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    I always played the mad scientist. Incidentally Deirdre is the best one for terraforming IIRC, Gaians have a head start on Weather Paradigm and a bonus to Planet helps when the mindworms get angry.

  • KrakenKraken

    From Dust?

  • OctoOcto
    I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

    University is the best faction because of the science bonus. Who needs military prowess when your weapons are plain better? The Gaians are good not so much because of the ecological bonus (that's a nice side-effect, but you really only need the Planet value at non-negative), but for the efficiency bonus, that really helps. And of course the Peacekeepers have a nicely stable society. Appropriately, in my quest for efficiency I've always chosen Democracy - Green - Knowledge in social engineering. And I've never played Morganites, because -3 Police/-5 Planet in Free Market is brutal (I always modded this to -2/-3 - to help the NPCs choosing that, even then I would never touch Free Market).

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Yeah, I bet Alex&Milos are proud of whoever set the stats for Free Market. I mean, seriously. The only thing it lacks is EATS_PUPPIES label. Incidentally I took about the same social engineering choices most of the time, sometimes I went for Planned+Democracy for growth, or Power for, eh, you know.

  • OctoOcto
    I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

    Nah, I'm of the firm opinion that soldiers units win battles, but the economy wins wars. Power's morale bonus isn't so important (especially if you have a tech advantage), but the industry disadvantage is annoying. And I just could never get enough of efficiency, and Planned loses you two points. Really, the only thing where I ever varied where the future ideologies or whatever they were called. If any game ever progressed that far (not often, seeing how idiotically stupid the AI was).

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Mmm-hmm, with future ideologies you could get that Efficiency pumped to as high as six or seven.

  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    ITT: Official Alpha Centauri Thread

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Yeah, I bet Alex&Milos are proud of whoever set the stats for Free Market. I mean, seriously. The only thing it lacks is EATS_PUPPIES label.



    Nothing that can't be modded in. :v

  • OctoOcto
    I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

    Well, the -5 Planet kinda is eating puppies. Xeno-puppies, that is. Who eat your brain. 

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