Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: MysticWind on March 16, 2021, 07:00:36 am

Title: Old website: Alpha Centauri Custom Factions
Post by: MysticWind on March 16, 2021, 07:00:36 am

Alpha Centauri Active Players is an Angelfire website that's miraculously still online, recording the link here so someone can find it on Internet Archive in the far future:

https://www.angelfire.com/games3/AlphaCentauri/

It has a long list of links of SMAC sites that might be fun to try to trawl through on IA: https://www.angelfire.com/games3/AlphaCentauri/Links/links.html

This one caught my eye... Alpha Centauri Custom Factions, once hosted on Crosswinds.net. Looks like the last update was on May 20th, 2001:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010520023326/http://www.crosswinds.net/~smaccf/

(https://i.imgur.com/SgN7oBb.png)

I've seen this Faction Rating Formula somewhere, is this commonly used? Is it even accurate.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010815190430fw_/http://www.crosswinds.net/~smaccf/fac-tool/faq2.htm

And here's a sample factions page (looks like you have to right-click to open the links in new tabs or windows):

https://web.archive.org/web/20010802133204fw_/http://www.crosswinds.net/~smaccf/class3.htm

(https://i.imgur.com/JDJCq9R.png)

I recognize some of those factions from the AC2 archives. Was this... was this site the precursor to NetworkNode.org?!?

(https://i.imgur.com/4s3PDPt.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/bQ8Q0WX.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/rUQTp8R.png)

I've seen some of these other resources before too, a long time ago. Are these all saved somewhere?

https://web.archive.org/web/20010410191749fw_/http://www.crosswinds.net/~smaccf/fac-tool/faq.htm

(https://i.imgur.com/QxK43ob.png)

Title: Re: Old website: Alpha Centauri Custom Factions
Post by: MysticWind on May 13, 2021, 09:01:35 pm

If any of these sites are missing from the AC2 archive, should we try retrieving them to be added to the wiki?

Title: Re: Old website: Alpha Centauri Custom Factions
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 14, 2021, 01:20:47 am

I would cooperate in such a venture...

Title: Re: Old website: Alpha Centauri Custom Factions
Post by: MysticWind on May 18, 2021, 09:02:58 am

Just to check, was the old AC Strategy Gaming site's factions archived?

https://web.archive.org/web/20071226081308/http://ac.strategy-gaming.com/factionfiles.shtml

Some of these seem to be older versions of what already exist on the wiki, but there might be a few new ones, like the Ziak Dragons.