Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Human Genome Project

[hagamablabla]

Did I just hear "Address to the Faggot"?

Oh nvm. :P

[voyagerlegends]

@hagamablabla There are no Russian faggots, they are all real men! Like Tchalkovsky.

[predalien1995]

I thought Sid Meier made videogames...

[Kronos64]

@predalien1995 He does. This is a Special Project video from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

[zhrmod]

Even though i am not Russian I can hear that this is not a genuine Russian accent

[shallowlake]

I always thought zakharov was a woman..

[TeshnosFire]

Provost Zakharov! 8)

[rbellev]

Don't forget guys, it seems anachronistic, but this project is practically first on the list. Also think about laser tech, and fossil fuel tech. The trees were spot-on, in that, humanity on Planet had to learn how to learn all over again... No element in that game was overlooked. I too want a sequel, but the way game developers are now, not a single one could do it justice.

[Magni56]

@rbellev

Fossil fuel tech in-game was to invent efficiently produceable artificial fossil fuels, because Planet didn't have any coal or oil deposits worth mentioning. Inventing that today would be the freakin holy grail of energy production, short of someone developing a small-size, efficient fusion reactor.

[Selinja]

So the USA said "Project Initiated" in 1990 and allied with other Factions, expecting it to take 15 rounds. However, Craig Venter was like "Enemy project iniated!" in 1998, so the Alliance hurried their Project. But his Celera Corporation had a much better Industry rating of amazing +9 (!), so even though he started in 1998, he needed only 10% of the minerals and a fraction of the time until he could shout "Project Complete". And he lived happily ever after, with an extra talent in every base...

[chankljp]

A must have if you are playing as the Peacekeepers. It makes all your bases go into a golden age which is really helpful in early game.

[Stantzs]

thats not exactly future tech, I think we did it like ten years ago. Haven't we mapped the genomes of a couple of dozen species?

[Kizor]

Yee-up. The game's about eleven years old. Sure shocked its authors.

[DonutNazii]

@Stantzs ten years ago was future tech for this game.

[rangepure999]

i know its meant to be addressed to the faxulty but it sounds more like faggot...

[McSqueaky]

Anyone know if the song in the background is available elsewhere? I kinda like it, but doubt I can find it without the speech over it.

[92451721921892113]

GATACA

[Phr0zenFire]

Gattica...

[aekhoo]

Project Complete.

[sgtjawa]

Try pronouncing the letters at the bottom of the screen.

[zan1500]

there not letters but the genetic code thats looped in all organisms in the universe and multiverse

[dizzzaster1]

Funny how you always ended nuking the place out of bordness

[TengriAsura]

I love his "soft/hard consonant" accent from Russian.

A gentle Russian accent makes the English language filled with happiness.

[danvolodar]

@TengriAsura

Except his accent is nothing like Russian at all.

You can trust me, I myself am Russian.

[TeshnosFire]

@danvolodar Voiced by Yuri Nesteroff. :O

Provost Zakharov for president! 8)

[imnotgivingmynametou]

@danvolodar Yeah, his voice sounds just like mine and I'm English.

[hjgfweuryfgwuyegfuyw]

@TengriAsura DUH!!!!!!!!!!!

[AvatarOfGames]

i loved this game. its still wickid

[tlucentefl]

Pffft. Morgan ftw every time. You can smash the other factions through sheer manufacturing power alone.

[kwicksandz]

Morganites got smashed by the military factions unless they had a large continent to themselves for most of the game. And cornering the global energy market wasnt cheap!

[P0mpan]

Every faction got its own weaknesses and strengths I prefer Santiago or Zakahov :)

[CM235JQ]

There's one thing to map all the human genes, and another thing alltogether to understand what individual genes do. I think that's what they mean here.

[Alignn]

@CM235JQ

It's either that or something like when Santiago speaks of launching the first satellite from Planet, in that they had to start from scratch with a lot of things; it's not like they carried over everything from Earth.

[InsidiousDreamer]

If you're playing a single-player game on Transcend, this is priceless (esp. if you're handling the University). However, since the real test of Alpha Centauri skill is against seasoned human opponents, difficulty level isn't as important and diminishes this project's usefulness. Thus, I can't go more than four stars no matter how good a buy it is. ****

[zolmifier]

provost is a good character, very intelligent good research time, but the only way you can win as him is ally with the spartans and the gaians...

spartans are good allies all around...

while the gaians will give you the tech to make mind worms which own...

you should see my map...

i actually counted bases: believers 1 morgan 8 spartans 9 me 18 gaians 0 peacekeepers 0 the hive 46

[nwcfalcon]

But the Spartans will try to pick a fight with you if you choose the knowledge value...

[woodwyrm]

Spartans always try to fight, only time they dont try to fight is when you've got Power as Value.

[nwcfalcon]

Too bad if you decide to take the research boost further with the knowledge value (especially if probe teams aren't used or if you have the hunter-seeker algorithm), the spartans will get on your case and eventually turn on you.

[musicmancbj]

we are all one :-)

[neomegadyn]

I just to play with Provost profile... i like it

[SimaZao]

Eh but he is dead terrible in a 30%-50% map, I mean unless he is gifted with his own island he gets beat on by everyone.

[webkilla]

can be survived if you ally - but allies usualy end up demanding that you fight their battles and spoonfeed them all your tech

[EvilDMMk3]

With a bit of careful defence early on (like not picking stupid fights and saying f*** you to the powerful faction's extortion) The Univeristy can rock so hard it hurts on almost any map. Once you are a generation or to ahead of the other guy in weapons and so forth you should have little trouble slaughtering him.

Zak is one of the strongest factions if you are capable of playing a half decent early game.

[iPwn007]

God I miss that game. You're my hero for posting these vids.

[Azovie]

Hahaha, back when this game was made this was the future. Since then it's already happened.

[Berry2K]

That's odd, yes... the human genome project was already well underway when SMAC was made.. Even nearly finished I thought (fully completed in 2003).

The makers should have known that it would be done long before the setting of the game.. maybe the knowledge was lost somehow in the Unity crash :P

[civver3]

You have to keep in mind that Earth was going into flames around that time.

[kingsman565]

"You have to keep in mind that Earth was going into flames around that time."

The Earth is going into flames right now!

[zalmoxe]

thanks for posting all the alpha centauri vids, i was looking for them :)