User Guide

CONTROLLING SOCIETY
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RESIGNING
You may retire as faction leader at any time by selecting “Resign” from the
Game menu. This ends the game and computes your Sid Meier’s Alpha
Centauri score.
You must also resign if you reach the mandatory retirement year for your game
or scenario. In standard games, the mandatory retirement year is M.Y. 2500 for
Citizen, Specialist and Talent difficulty levels, and M.Y. 2400 for Librarian,
Thinker and Transcend levels.
You will be warned 20 years before you reach mandatory retirement.
WINNING THE GAME
There are four ways to win Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri—conquest, diplomat-
ic, economic or transcendence—depending on how you set your options in the
setup screens.
If you are playing a scenario, it may have specific and unique victory condi-
tions different from those listed.
CONQUEST
You may win the game by conquest if you eliminate all remaining factions.
Factions that surrender and “swear a pact to serve you” count as eliminated
for this purpose. If Cooperative Victory is enabled, you need not eliminate any
faction with whom you have signed a Pact of Brotherhood, though no more
than three non-surrendered factions may ‘win together’ in this manner.
DIPLOMATIC
You may win the game diplomatically by convincing enough faction leaders to
unite behind you as Supreme Leader of Planet. A 3/4 vote of the Planetary
Council is required to secure such election. Only the leader of one of the two
factions with the highest vote totals may stand for election as Supreme Leader.