For example, if you play as Morgan Industries, your best strategy is to build your cities and avoid war in the early portion of the game until you can buy your way to the top with amassed fortune. Each of the seven factions has unique advantages and disadvantages which offer excellent replayability. What makes SMAC an outstanding game as opposed to merely a 'good' game is the near-perfect play balance that fans of Civilization know and love. The basic gameplay is nothing new to fans of 4X games: build cities, explore the land, research new technologies, make peace or war with other factions. As leader of a faction of your choice, your goal is to colonize, explore, and expand-all in the fine tradition of '4X' space strategy games. The travelers splinter into 7 ideological factions and when Alpha Centauri is finally reached, each one grabs an escape pod and abandons the crippled ship.
Unity) that wakes everyone from cryo-sleep and damaged the communications equipment and contact with mother Earth is lost. On SMAC's official website, we learn of an unexpected reactor malfunction aboard the colony ship (christened U.N.
