Now we need some1 to start implementing SMAC wonders...

OH GOD YES!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! Now if only we could get the story from AC into this game!

Is ther any way we can add the Music from SMAC to Beyond

Thank you very much for making this! I look forward to the time when all of the great Alpha Centauri quotes are available in CivBE : )

I opened my Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri\voices folder and clicked through the sound files, man such good stuff is in there.

Albie_123 has a great idea about affinity levels, that and perhaps some other trigger locations where it will kick in some of other quotes - may help in getting more quotes into the game.

Another thought, as the expansions come out that will hopefully provide more hooks for the quotes to go into.

The audio swap is easily done automatically by the linked program.
Check the README file for more details.

The terrible voice work and the awful, awful writing were my primary complaints. Thanks for the mod.

This is pretty sweet, especially since this game has made me enjoy SMACX more and more. However the audio swap you mentioned would be days and days of work. Is there any way you can let us know what tech number you are changing?? The folder for SMACX sounds only has a number associated with the tech audio and not the name of the tech as the BC folder does.

Thanks all the same.

Hey man can you pls upload this on Civ fanatics or make a Dropbox Download.

Thank you! The writing in BE is atrocious.

Thank you kind sir, I was a bit sad that the current in game voice overs were not on par with Alpha :(

Haha, love that one zArkham4269. I was really hoping the quotes in this game would be close to as good as SMAC. Alas...

nice

Too bad it's not a full original SMAC mod

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Just as long as you figure out a way to trigger the "Please don't go; the drones need you. They look up to you!" when you exit the game. =)

I think with some rearrangement it's possible. There are 75-ish quotes left. I might give it a go at some point.

I considered it, but I'd need 54 quotes for that - way more than you can possible assign from the remaining files.

And for Supremacy: "And here we tinker with metal, to try to give it a kind of life, and suffer those who would scoff at our efforts. But who's to say that, if intelligence had evolved in some other form in past millennia, the ancestors of these beings would not now scoff at the idea of intelligence residing within meat?"

Have you considered doing the same thing for Affinity levels? There are still plenty of voice files left over in SMAC!

Planet's final message of 'Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?' would be perfect for the final Harmony level!

I don't know but I've been told, Deidre's got a Network Node. Likes to press the on-off switch, dig that crazy Gaian witch!

I NEEDED THIS MOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!

In SMAC you could plant forests, and the aliens didn't like that. Removing fungus (or in this case Miasma) is what annoyed them. A lot.

SMAC had some other cool stuff like weather patterns: moisture gathered on the west side of a mountain range, and the east side was a desert. You could use terraforming to put a couple of mountains to the west of your rival's base, turning their terrain into desert by blocking moisture.

Stuff like that was just so cool...

I honestly can't wait for some kind of comprehensive Alpha Centauri mod.

I'm surprised that chopping down forests doesn't increase xeno's desire to attack you. I agree with Delekhan that the more you change the environment, the more aggressive the aliens should become like in AC.

Of course I'm sure Firaxis is being cheap and producing Civ:BE then letting all the modders do their thing so they can make the next update cheaper for them while still stiffing us the $50 for the new update.

Suggestions for making BE into SMAC 2.0 (and there can be no higher goal):

Replace the useless leaders and sponsors with SMAC factions, even if we give up the animated and voiced leaders in the process.

Replace the crappy BE wonders with SMAC secret projects

Make the aliens more of a strategic, escalating menace like in SMAC, not the random barbarian-like pests they are now.

Make the miasma more dynamic (it can spread, etc)

And of course, sea bases and resources. And a better selection of naval units.

Beyond Earth is now officially awesome thanks to you. I've been screaming about this in the forums and you made it happen. +1 x infinity

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

"Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you."

Best. Mod. Ever.

THE MOD WE ALLWERE WAITING FOR!
genius.

Holy hell, that's awesome.

This made the game 10 times more enjoyable. You are doing gods work

Thank you.

It'd be cool if there was an alternate version of this where the quotes were changed slightly to fit the games lore a bit more. How'd you do it, I might go about making that myself.

The thing with secret projects is that their voiceover is part of the videos, so I can't use the narration.

Recommendation on wonders. It might be possible to actually rename the wonders to something more relevant to quotes. Making them related to some of the secret projects would be a bonus as well.

Perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Thanks for making this mod.

Hello everyone! Glad you enjoy the mod!
While it was (surprisingly) easy to replace tech quotes, I think wonders quotes are a bit too specific. It would certainly result in repeating quotes that overlap with other techs.

I was also thinking about changing the music, but SMAC doesn't have much to offer in that regard - I guess I'll experiment a bit to reduce the number of vivid tracks to give the game a more eerie atmosphere.

And I agree that using some of the other sound files would be great. I really loved that heavy breath from SMAC scout units.The many beeps and boops of BE on the other hand seem to break immersion instead of creating it (at least for me). We'll see if I can do something about that.

Haha this is great! I always expected the quote reader in vanilla to say the source afterwards, but she never does D: Thanks!

Thanks!

Very nice. Thanks for the tool and instructions on CivFanatics on how to easily convert the old SMAC files to Civ: BE.

Does this also replace wonder quotes or just tech quotes?

sorry, meant MP3 for the quotes, not OGG

Agreed Zarkham. If you have SMAC like me, it should contain the sound files in it's folder. The main thing that's stopping this from happening is that the only audio files in CIV:BE in OGG form ready for replacement are music and quotes. Someone would need to find a way to make the other in game sound effects available for alteration.

Now if there is only a way to use all the sound effects. To this day I still you things like "Please don't go; the drones need you" when my computer shuts off.

I was just struggling to try and do this myself with modbuddy!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This is a God-send!!! X3

yeah! awesome. wish they would have just taken them

Awesome, I was finding the stock quotes to be a little underwhelming...