Same here. SMAC is my favourite Sid Meier game by far. I prefer it to all of the Civ games. I’m doing a philosophy minor in university right now and I proudly a

Same here. SMAC is my favourite Sid Meier game by far. I prefer it to all of the Civ games. I’m doing a philosophy minor in university right now and I proudly admit that all of my interest in philosophy began with this game. SMAC is a story of the possible, an homage to “what if?” Many armchair philosophers have dreamt their utopias. SMAC lets you build one. And then it puts you up against other utopians with their own visions and gives you a front row seat to all of the consequences: the atrocities, the nuclear weapons, the environmental degradation. People have been thinking about these issues for millennia, at least as far back as Plato’s Republic. SMAC lets you experiment and play dictator for a day, without hurting any real people. It gives you the first taste, and if you’re a certain kind of person, you just might end up hooked for life.