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SMAC Factions The Spartan Federation

Play as Colonel Corazón Santaigo, leader of the Spartan Federation, from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

+10 city defense. +20XP for units. Receive a free prototype upon researching a unit.
-5% production when producing units. Else -15%.

The Faction focuses on superior strength and training to make up for a lack of industrial edge.


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initial upload (v1):
- The Spartan Federation has an innate +10 to city defense
- Their units are trained with +20XP
- Upon researching a basic unit (no affinity requirement), they receive a free prototype. Naval units are spawned in coastal cities if the capital is non-coastal. Otherwise, the prototype is lost.
- They suffer from -15% overall production, but earn +10% when producing units (for an overall of -5%)
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update Nov-7, 2014 (v2):
- Art assets updated to better match game
- A little bit of recoding to improve how experience is rewarded to edge-case units.
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update Nov-26, 2014 (v3):
- Buffed the faction so that they will earn a prototype of all military units so long as they can produce the unit at the time of research. Otherwise the prototype is lost. This does mean players can get free affinity units so long as their affinities and resources are in line at the time of research. Only earn military unit prototypes (so no civilians, explorers, or orbital units)
- Naval units only spawn in cities connected to large enough bodies of water.
- Future proofed the ♥♥♥♥ out of prototype award code. Should allow awarding of custom units from other mods and future expansions, so long as they are designated as military units
- Ironed out the unit experience code to better cover units from quest rewards or expeditions.
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update (v4):
- 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 (v5):
- Civilopedia no longer displays dummy entries such as trait buildings
- Re-added missing art assets
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update (v6):
- Updated to winter patch
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update (v7):
- Added support for Social Engineering
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update (v8):
- Fixed a bug where the Spartans failed to earn their prototype
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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