Collecting custom factions

[ete]

It'd be nice to collect up as many sources of custom factions as we can find. I'll try to keep this post updated with all that're found. Long term goal is to provide an easy all-in-one download of all factions as well as individual downloads, plus the wiki database which will be used for searching/checking things. Italic=I have them on my computer. Strikeout=On wiki.

Vanilla
Factions which should work fine in standard SMAC/X

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=3751.0 - JarlWolf's
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1257.0 - ariete's
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=3819.0 - Sigma's
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=4006.0 - Reefa's
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=2480.0 some from here
http://apolyton.net/local_links/links/c-faction-175
http://web.archive.org/web/20060222192258/http://www.networknode.org/indexflash.html (no actual downloads, but some faction set names)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060430055236/http://googlie2.tripod.com/rynnsgallery/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090122222725/http://ac.strategy-gaming.com/factionfiles.shtml
http://web.archive.org/web/20000310013624/http://members.xoom.com/pythagras/ModBin.html
http://www.civgaming.net/smac/googliecustom.shtml
http://kilkakon.com/projects.php?category=1&base=Alpha+Centauri
http://www.civ.org.pl/downloads.php?lang=Eng&type=SMAC&section=Factions
http://www.mediafire.com/?1e1eo73www1n6wo (ariete's custom factions)
http://www.civgaming.net/smac/custom1.shtml
http://alphacentauri2.info/My%20Custom%20Factions/Custom%20Factions.htm (got BU's full collection which should include this)
Official factions (note: need updated SMAX texts)
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=102

Total conversion/major change mod factions
http://kilkakon.com/projects/losteden.php

[Kilkakon]

Add mine to the list of course! http://kilkakon.com/projects/losteden.php

And of course  http://kilkakon.com/projects.php?category=1&base=Alpha+Centauri  for my individual things.

[ete]

Certainly! Sorry about not getting them to start with, was just adding links from google.

[ete]

I went trawling the archives and dug up a few more faction sources.

[Kilkakon]

And what were they?

[ete]

http://www.civ.org.pl/downloads.php?lang=Eng&type=SMAC&section=Factions
http://web.archive.org/web/20060430055236/http://googlie2.tripod.com/rynnsgallery/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090122222725/http://ac.strategy-gaming.com/factionfiles.shtml
http://web.archive.org/web/20000310013624/http://members.xoom.com/pythagras/ModBin.html

I added them to the OP. Plenty of scenarios and maps too, maybe for another project.

[ete]

Downloading everything now that the NN factions are up.

gonna be a lot of duplicates/forks to sort out, weeee

Edit: Especially Borg. So many Borg factions, all called borg.

[ete]

Organized and uploading. More sources of factions welcome from anyone who wants to trawl the internet archive or google.

[JarlWolf]

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=3751.0

My own factions page of course.

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1257.0
And ariete's.

[ete]

Not listed in the OP, but I have both (plus Sigma's and Reefa's). Adding to the OP.

[Buster's Uncle]

So many Borg factions, all called borg.

You ain't kiddin'.  IIRC, my second Borg faction, the one with the busty bald alien lady, was a Frankenstein, patched together out of several of the artless Borg varieties out there.  -And really, only done because I'd made the leaderhead for the art challenge, and had a very different version of Borg bases left over from fixing up the previous one...

Funny because I'm no fan of TNG and after.  The Borg suck.

[Kilkakon]

Have you processed everything you'd found so far?

[Green1]

Downloading everything now that the NN factions are up.

gonna be a lot of duplicates/forks to sort out, weeee

Edit: Especially Borg. So many Borg factions, all called borg.

And you know what, Ete? NO ONE has gotten the Borg right yet.

They were thinking wrong. They were thinking balance, thinking maybe it would be used MP. Very wrong. The reason the Borg was such a popular villain back in the day was because they were over powered. The Borg, if it is to ever be cool needs to be treated like your Annihilators or the Exterminatus. BUT - much different philosophy than those guys.   

[Buster's Uncle]

[mildly] Somebody got the ART right...

[Green1]

[mildly] Somebody got the ART right...

Yeah, that is the ONLY thing right about that faction. And, supposedly, your version is or was considered the best Borg faction in the day. My only complaint in the art department is the bases. A planet-locked borg would not have "cube" bases. It would look Borg, but not "parody"-like as it is currently.

As far as the design, not what I would go with at ALL. When I am feeling more industrious, I will re-work this good idea but wrong implementation.