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SMAC Factions The University of Planet

Play as Academician Prokhor Zakharov, leader of The University of Planet, from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Cities generate +20% research.
Starts with a free tech.
Enemy spies espionage rate +50% in your cities.

The Faction focuses on an intense devotion to scientific advancement, at a cost to information security.



This mod makes changes to CovertOperationsSystem.lua. It incorporates scripts from ViceVirtuoso's ModularCovertOps mod, so any mod's depending on it will not conflict with this mod. It does still make it's own custom changes as well. All changes are non-critical, but a conflict may cause The University to lose it's primary weakness and thus make the faction much more powerful.

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initial upload (v1):
- The university generates +20% science in all of its cities.
- It starts the game with its choice of a free tech.
- All other spies perform operations in University cities at a +50% rate. This translates to about 33% fewer turns necessary to complete an operation.
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update Nov-2-2014 (v2):
- Added some AI changes to take better advantage of Zakharov's penalty.
- Fixed a missing logo that caused some UI errors.
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update Nov-7-2014 (v3):
- Update to art assets to make more in line with game
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update Nov-10-2014 (v4):
- Added ViceVirtuoso's ModularCovertOps script to improve compatibility with increasing number of covert ops mods.
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update Nov-27-2014 (v5):
- Fixed an important file declaration that may or may not have been causing any bugs (can't say for sure, fixed it anyways)
- Updated to ViceVirtuoso's latests ModularCovertOps script.
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update Dec-8-2014 (v6):
- Updated CovertOperationsSystem.lua to BE fall 2014 patch.
- Fixed some compatibility issues with popular covert ops mods.
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update (v7):
- New civilopedia entries for faction and leader
- Leaderscene more specific to the faction
- New loading intros including one from the excellent "Journey to Centauri" by Mike Ely and "GURPS Alpha Centauri" supplement by Jon F. Zeigler
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update (v8):
- Update for compatibility with the new Data Angels, a faction from Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.
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update (v9):
- Civilopedia no longer displays dummy entries such as trait buildings
- Re-added missing art assets
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update (v10):
- Updated to winter patch
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update (v11):
- Recoded some of the trait to make it better optimized and future-proofed
- Added support for Social Engineering
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Planned future changes:
- Implement trait as an invisible building rather than the current, very visible building.
- Balance changes as more factions are developed and feedback is received.


There's a serious issue that affects many sponsor mods with custom leaderscenes. The mods can cause the game to crash to desktop when used in conjunction with the default civs. A current fix is to play the game with the leaderscenes set to minimum. In the meantime, modders are investigating a proper fix. You can do your part by notifying Firaxis of this widespread issue.


Art, Design - adapted from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Lore - adapted from "GURPS Alpha Centauri" supplement by Jon F. Zeigler
Code - utility functions by JFD