🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <cmnod81fhn5ju0hm2vjvf4os2fdedh9r1f@4ax.com>, 
spallshurgenson@gmail.com says...
> 
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:29:43 -0700, PW
> <emailaddyinsig@ifIremember.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:11:32 -0500, "MetalGuru" <fake@mail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>And its priced at $3.
> >>
> >>You heard that right, three US dollars for the original game plus expansion.
> >>
> >>Is it Christmas yet?
> >>
> >>http://www.gog.com/gamecard/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Might have to get it, but it came out in 1999.  Icky graphics I guess.
> 
> It's a turn-based strategy game utilizing tiled maps. It's lacking the
> bells'n'whistles of Civilization 5 but really there's only so much you
> can do with the genre. Various hacks let you bypass the 1024x768
> resolution as well.
> 
> Anyway, who plays 4X games for the graphics? It's the gameplay that
> matters, and that AC has in spades.


Could not agree more: Alien Crossfire is one of the best futuristic 4x 
games ever, except for the airplane bug. They fixed it at some point, 
and then they broke it again with the last official patch I downloaded.
I understand there's a user-written patch out there some place that 
takes care of the problem.

-P.