[Pax]

Originally posted by solops:
10. SM’s Alpha Centauri - aweful graphics, absurdly unintuitive tech tree. Graphics usually do not matter to me, but I found these offputting to the point of making the game unpleasant.

I just thought of something.

Solops, are you by chance red/green color blind? That'd make sense to me; the graphics in SMAC were just fine IMO ... nothign to celebrate, but not "awful" either.

There IS, however, a specific changed graphics set, for R/G color blind players -- Firaxis included it, IIRc, right on the CD. Dunno what effect that has, or how bad the graphics look, though.

Personally, I rather LIKE forestign an entire continent (with Tree Farm adn Hybrid Forest, that's some decent Nutrients and Energy output ... and arid ground doesn't matter ... Great Desert, here we come!)