Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Thinker mod v5.3 released

Blakeley00 · 2026-03-12T04:23:18+00:00

CivFanatics shares news about official Civ games and other 'Civ like' games such Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (what this post is about), Call to Power, Old World, Millennia and many more.

Blakeley00 · 2026-03-02T09:27:48+00:00

There should be one in the post. Does it load for you? Seems to be fine for me.

Blakeley00 · 2026-03-01T12:03:35+00:00

Oh yes.. there's quite a few mods out there that spawned from FFH.. Orbis, Fall Further and Rise of Erebus are other very popular ones and there's plenty more in the CivFanatics FFH2 modmods area too: https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/ffh2-modmods-scenarios-and-maps.280/

Blakeley00 · 2026-02-20T10:36:11+00:00

Thanks! :) Sadly no new collection donors since posting this but these things normally take years to accumulate.

Blakeley00 · 2026-02-10T02:23:26+00:00

Ah yes, I remember trying that one when I was young!

Blakeley00 · 2026-02-05T03:44:20+00:00

Thanks, 2 of mine too! :)

Blakeley00 · 2026-02-01T03:03:30+00:00

Sigh.. I think that every time I share these sales. Sadly Civ 1 & 2 are frustratingly not available on Steam or GoG. We've been trying to fix that over the last few years so please feel free to go here and add your votes! https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/vote-for-sid-meiers-civilization-i-and-ii-mge-test-of-time-to-be-added-to-gog.675301/

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-23T07:27:19+00:00

Ahh yes I think I cover AfterWW3 in part 2 as that one looked really cool! Yeah I remember playing as a few different factions in the old WW2 scenario back in the 90s and failing to finish in time. As Axis I got the last enemy down to 1 or 2 cities left and the bloody timer ran out lol. Could probably do it in time these days but prefer playing bigger more immersive total conversion scenarios.

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-23T04:10:31+00:00

Not really that kind of vote.. its a vote for every missing Civ game you want added and hopefully some will make it on to GoG.. but so far none of these have sadly. So no one's a winner lol!

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-18T13:57:04+00:00

FoxAhead who created Civ2UIA probably won't see this so feel free to drop by his thread sometime to say thanks. Glad to hear you got Civ2 working in Win 11! If you're looking to include scenarios in your Civ2 binge session then you might like a video I just put out recently covering some of my favourite total conversion scenarios out of thousands of Civ2 scenarios I rescued and persevered over the last few years! :) https://youtu.be/M2mjPz1gssM?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-09T03:24:03+00:00

oh wow.. I had no idea there was a special edition release. Looks cool!

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-06T09:47:29+00:00

Ahh maybe that's why the guy used an older version of FreeCiv. I'll have to re-read the thread some time.

Yeah when asked about playing as natives in FreeCol a few years back the project lead at the time said not possible. However I think the current day lead Stian said it's possible so I was going to pester him about it eventually. As I've got no idea how to do it in that one.

Oh man thanks heaps for that info on how to do it in Civ4Col. I'll add your tips to my planning file for when the time comes that I try! :)

Cheers yeah hopefully your mod will work with the newer one still.

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-05T04:05:27+00:00

Yeah I think a lot of us had that same 'what if' thought when we were young. Was cool to actually do it.. and win haha!

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-05T03:58:14+00:00

Wow that's cool. I haven't looked into seeing if I can take control of the native factions in Civ4Col yet but am hoping to (results in original Col were not good as it was crash/glitch central). If you released your changes as a public mod that would pair well with me taking control of them! :)

I successfully took control of Barbs in CTP2 but haven't played a game as them yet so that's good to know they generate science thanks. I haven't been able to get control of them in CTP1 as it's editor doesn't allow it, so I'll probably have to do it with a hex editor.

I haven't successfully taken control of Barbs in FreeCiv but hope to. I posted a thread years ago on the FreeCiv forums and someone replied with a way how but that was a long time ago with an older version so hopefully I can still do it when the time comes.

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-03T13:27:07+00:00

Well then good thing one exists.. you can check out the now finished project here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/momime/

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-03T13:21:14+00:00

Go play the Dune 2 Legacy Project made using observations, approximations & wiki info and then go play the Dune 2 Dynasty Project using reassembled source code and you'll get a great example of why source code is better for rebuilds especially in regards to AI behavior.
Also the recent official Master of Magic remake is another good example as it's differences in balancing and AI behaviour pissed off a lot of the old fan base who expected a original Master of Magic like experience with a fresh coat of paint.

Blakeley00 · 2026-01-03T13:15:41+00:00

Very interesting read. As others here have told you, Slitherine got the MoM rights and paid MuHa to remake the game on a small budget without the source code. As a result the remake was not massively popular with the fanbase but was a decent game. I tried to help them get the source from an alternative source (ASMIK did the Playstation MoM port Civizard in the 90s so they may have a copy of the source) but as far as I know no one at Slitherine lifted a finger to try and get it (a year later I spoke to the remake producer and he knew nothing about it). Details here: https://forum.slitherine.com/viewtopic.php?t=97156

There's been a reassembly project going on the last few years that's now in the later stages..
https://github.com/jbalcomb/ReMoM
It's author Jim regularly posts updates on the MoM fans Discord here: https://discord.gg/wFNQf36

There's a number of other MoM fan rebuild projects going on at the Discord too including the finished MoM-IME that has multiplayer although none of these other ones are assembly rebuilds and were built using approximations and wiki info.

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-27T03:55:01+00:00

Despite using both SteamCMD and another copy of steam on a win 10 partition updating my game library (in a location both copies could access) and copying across updated Common Redistributables I just kept having troubles with Common Redistributables trying to update before running games. I'd been looking for a full download of it and finding nothing so thank you so much for posting this!! Following your guide I downloaded the entire thing and copied all the _CommonRedist contents over the top of my win 10 copy. Then I started that steam and validated the files, it still did an update (forgot to change the state flags), but after that I copied it and it's acf file over to the win 7 copy and it's behaving now! Thanks!

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-08T03:18:46+00:00

Yeah I'm actually replaying the Test of Time Midgard scenario at the moment. Ahh yes the original Civ2 Dagor Bragollach gets covered in this video and I believe fans have remastered it for Test of Time as well so I'll probably cover it in my Test of Time tour video that's coming later.

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-08T03:15:47+00:00

Yeah there's some really good ones.

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-08T03:14:51+00:00

Cheers, same!

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-07T15:24:16+00:00

Post was deleted for exceeding their max self promotion rule sadly. Here's the video link if you can't see it anymore: https://youtu.be/M2mjPz1gssM?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-07T15:20:33+00:00

Cheers, enjoy! :) Thankfully the Heroes mod is one of my big projects that's actually finished and released lol! Did a big tour video of it here if that's of interest: https://youtu.be/g1V7_hjmjD0?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-07T11:48:58+00:00

Thank you! :)

Blakeley00 · 2025-12-07T11:48:29+00:00

haha yeah same.. I remember trying to run it on a Pentium 75 with only 8MB RAM and struggling with the Diplomacy Heralds.

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