Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

[J!!]

The Academician’s private residences shall remain off-limits to
the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability,
we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not
allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this
ridiculous witch hunt!”

—Fedor Petrov,
Vice Provost for University Affairs

soundbite for retroviral engineering

[StrangeDevice]

The Academician’s private residences shall remain off-limits to
the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability,
we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not
allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this
ridiculous witch hunt!”

—Fedor Petrov,
Vice Provost for University Affairs

soundbite for retroviral engineering

The historians were feeling particularly sarcastic that day.

[Redem]

I swear I'm never gonna see a let's play of someone playing Lal

[FaxModem1]

I swear I'm never gonna see a let's play of someone playing Lal

I know what you mean. Personally, he's my favorite faction leader, but no one who runs a show likes to play as him.

[CareerKnight]

My memories of AC mainly consist of my first game where I was Zakharov and allied to Morgan, him betraying me by stealing my tech, and my response of turning most of his cities into lakes. That and usually having to kill Miriam immediately cause I almost always spawned near her as Zakharov.

My brothers and I found it amusing that the diplomatic faction (Lal) was almost always the first that the computers killed.

[Robovski]

I swear I'm never gonna see a let's play of someone playing Lal

I know what you mean. Personally, he's my favorite faction leader, but no one who runs a show likes to play as him.

I did like to play as him (and Morgan, and Zhakarov) but recording Alpha Centauri is a right PITA. Though I was looking at restarting my channel anyway... I was going to play tomorrow on my day off anyway; we'll see.

[Redem]

I swear I'm never gonna see a let's play of someone playing Lal

I know what you mean. Personally, he's my favorite faction leader, but no one who runs a show likes to play as him.

I think I'll chalk it up to to how difficult it is to apparently do let's play of alpha centauri

[animalia]

Technically speaking Gandhi used non-violent resistance because he believed it was the best way to free India NOT because he was a pacifist.

[Crowley]

According to what I've read, the infamous Gandhi the Warmonger is a common occurrence because the AI is programmed to consider war a good option when it has superiority in numbers, and Indians have a bonus to population growth. Put those two together, and...

[FaxModem1]

According to what I've read, the infamous Gandhi the Warmonger is a common occurrence because the AI is programmed to consider war a good option when it has superiority in numbers, and Indians have a bonus to population growth. Put those two together, and...

Historically, it's because the first Civilization game had a set level of aggression for all NPC leaders, with it maxing out at 256. Gandhi's was at 1. When nuclear weapons are developed in-game, everyone's aggression lowers by one. Gandhi then went from 1 to 256, going around the scale. So, that meant that Gandhi goes from total peacenik to nuclear warhead loving warlord. This bug was so beloved by everyone, that they made sure to include it in every game since then.