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The guy I spoke to said EA has their own capacity to develop IP internally, but won't do SMAC. However for smaller licenses like SMAC they will outsource them. They just need proof that the outsource company can bring a project to retail, at a good quality, and it be successful.BTW on license rights:- EA owns the brand, retail and distribution rights.- Firaxis owns the source code and asset rights.- Various other parties own rights to technologies used in the game (eg Microsoft).- Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier (not Firaxis please note him personally) hold copyright on the design.
Take Two/Firaxis buy the rights back from EA - 10 %Not unlikely, Sid Meier does like his sequels.
There is one option not mentioned: a spiritual successor.Not unlikely, either.Take Master of Magic. That one has had 2 (aguably) spiritual succesors: Age of Wonders and fallen Enchantress.Now, I like fantasy as well... but how come no sci fi 4x that does not involve faster than light travel that is more SMAX inspired?Then again, the fantasy 4x guys had to cope till 2002 then 2012... with one abysmal failure of an attempt (Elemental: WoM)
Oh yeah... the "wild card" option.There is always a chance that a open source atempt to recreate SMAX could happen.Now, there was a few attempts to recreate it in FreeCiv. However, none of these have come of anything. Plus, FreeCiv looks like utter crud from the days of the Commodore 128.Maybe a Battle of Wesnoth type deal?However, I give this a 10to 5 percent. It would be a massive project to take on that would require tons of time and talent and would need massive community support.There is also a chance for another Planetfall type mod in a more modern engine like Civ 5 or Kumquat/Fallen Enchantress. But then, like Maniac and crew found out for Civ 4, you are burdened with the limitations of that engine and invariably are forced to leave out mandatory features that a SMAX successor would need.
Quote from: Green1 on January 23, 2013, 07:29:12 pmOh yeah... the "wild card" option.There is always a chance that a open source atempt to recreate SMAX could happen.Now, there was a few attempts to recreate it in FreeCiv. However, none of these have come of anything. Plus, FreeCiv looks like utter crud from the days of the Commodore 128.Maybe a Battle of Wesnoth type deal?However, I give this a 10to 5 percent. It would be a massive project to take on that would require tons of time and talent and would need massive community support.There is also a chance for another Planetfall type mod in a more modern engine like Civ 5 or Kumquat/Fallen Enchantress. But then, like Maniac and crew found out for Civ 4, you are burdened with the limitations of that engine and invariably are forced to leave out mandatory features that a SMAX successor would need.Another downside of Planetfall is that its only accessible to Civ 4 players. (Its not a stand alone game) I love Battle of Wesnoth and the open source community behind it. IMO most open source games are in poor shape (graphically, gameplay, community support). List of Open Source Games
Planetfall has it's own issues too. Enormous amount of work put into it which we should respect
Come to think of it... and how far AC was for it's time... has ANY modern engine handled terrain/ weather/ sea levels and terrain levels rising and falling since? Not sure any mod of anything out there could do it.
Quote from: Green1 on January 23, 2013, 08:28:32 pmCome to think of it... and how far AC was for it's time... has ANY modern engine handled terrain/ weather/ sea levels and terrain levels rising and falling since? Not sure any mod of anything out there could do it.No strategy games have these features that I know of.
Quote from: testdummy653 on January 23, 2013, 08:40:08 pmQuote from: Green1 on January 23, 2013, 08:28:32 pmCome to think of it... and how far AC was for it's time... has ANY modern engine handled terrain/ weather/ sea levels and terrain levels rising and falling since? Not sure any mod of anything out there could do it.No strategy games have these features that I know of.That's because Alpha Centauri( •_•)( •_•) >⌐□-□(⌐□_□)Was ahead of its time.
The team considered several ideas, including a return to a post-apocalyptic earth and the conquest of another planet in the Alpha Centauri system, before deciding to keep the new title on Planet. The premise allowed them to mix and match old and new characters and delve into the mysteries of the monoliths and alien artifacts
I think that the smart money would be to do what might be really SMAX 1.5 (but call it SMAC 2 to avoid confusion).