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APPENDIX 2. MISCELLANEOUS

ENHANCEMENTS

The following enhancements to Alpha Centauri are all contained in Alien

Crossfire.

SPECIAL FEATURES

◆ HOTSEAT multiplayer mode now available.

◆ Play-by-email multiplayer mode now available.

◆ Added your total Council votes to the bottom of the Comm menu.

◆ One of the cycling info displays now shows # of council votes.

◆ You can now see AI player’s social engineering settings.

◆ Adjusted armor costs for air units.

◆ New council proposals shown on datalinks for technologies which enable them.

◆ Alt+Shift+W toggles fog-of-war preference.

◆ Added a right-click menu to base production screen so you can remove

obsolete units from view, as well as perform other production functions.

◆ You can now see the destination of a unit without selecting it. This option

can be toggled under “Map” preferences.

◆ You can now release mind worms into wild using the “Turn Over Unit

Control” option on the Action Menu.

◆ New atrocity rules: (a) 12+ atrocities (depends on difficulty level) will cause

all factions to declare vendetta (b) Nerve stapling becomes increasingly inef-

fective at particular bases the more you use it.

◆ You can now customize the map size when generating a random planet.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Ability Cost Prereq. Abbrev. Desc.

Soporific Gas Pods 1 Bioadaptive Resonance Gas -2 enemy morale when

you attack

Dissociative Wave 2 Centauri PSI Diss. Enemy combat specials

fail when they attack

Marine Detachment 1 Adaptive Doctrine Marine Ships capture enemy

ships

Fuel Nanocells 1 Matter Compression Fuel+ +4 range for air units

Algorithmic Enhancement 1 Nanominiaturization Algorithm Increase Probe Team

success

TECHNOLOGY TREE

Technology Abbrev. Prerequisites Notes

Progenitor Psych ProgPsych None Aquafarm

Field Modulation FieldMod ProgPsych, CentEco 3-Res Armor

Adaptive Economic Systems AdEcoSys ProgPsych, IndEco Planetary Energy Grid,

Thermocline Transducer

Adaptive Doctrine AdDoct PolySoft, DocFlex Marine Detachment,

3-Pulse Armor

Biodaptive Resonance BioRes FeildMod, CentEmp Res. Laser, Gas Pods

N-Space Compression Nspace Biomech, Orb Geosynch Pod, Payloads,

Flechette Defense

Sentient Resonance SentRes CentPSI, BioRes Res. Bolt, 8-Res Armor

Secrets of the Manifold SecMan SentRes, SecAlpha Manifold Harmonics

String Resonance StringRes SecMan, TempMech String Disruptor

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