#Planet centauri download full mod

#Planet centauri download full mod

The backbone of the mod is Alpha Centauri Bear's excellent Will to Power project. You get fewer but much more powerful bases. You can't just sail to Cape Cod and build a few wood cabins! You need life support, electricity, nutrient processing, mineral refining, etc.īrutal Dawn's main gimmick is vastly increasing both the growth rate and the cost of colony pods.

In Planet's inimical environment, each new base would represent a major technical challenge. Rather they would be constrained by the social factors which have lowered the birth rate in the modern centuries. With their efficient agriculture and advanced resource processing techs, their population wouldn't be constrained by food. Europeans reached the Americas long before the Industrial Revolution.Ĭhiron colonists would suffer the opposite problems. Also, earlier peoples tended to exist in a state of permanent population boom, with population curtailed by disease, warfare or starvation (resource failure.) However, it was easier for people to solve the problem of expansion than to solve the problems of disease or starvation. Roman technology, for example, could never support a population anywhere near as high as modern Italy.

While it was easy for these groups to expand into new territory, they had difficulty extracting resources from the land they controlled. Historically, every group from hunter-gatherers to early modern civilization suffered the same set of basic challenges.

Unfortunately, those patterns are the exact opposite of what would be found on Chiron. Vanilla SMAC derives from Civilization and Civilization II, which try to simulate real life population expansion patterns. Brutal Dawn is a mod that simulates a more plausible model for high-tech extra-planetary colonization.