Wow, that escalated rather unexpectedly. Thanks everyone for their comments and input. Please don't take my post about espionage as a rant or complain, rather a source of discussion about game mechanics. I was a bit surprised when I encountered espionage in the new expansion, since I presumed the me...

In general, defense against enemy agents is fairly easy, get vision, spot agents, use fast units to eliminate them before they reach your city. But what can you do when your city center is 4 or less hexes away from enemy city center, who is spaming agents every turn (see picture below)? You can't at...

ELF errors are usually caused due to architecture differences, eg. running 32-bit app on 64 bit systems without proper support. If you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit you should run the 32-bit executable and vice versa, 64 bit executable on 64-bit Ubuntu. You can run 32-bit app on a 64-bit Ubunt...

You downloaded a zipped file Pandora-Release-Linux.zip , which contains two additional zipped files Pandora-Release-Linux-x86_32.zip and Pandora-Release-Linux-x86_64.zip . You have to extract the Pandora-Release-Linux-x86_64.zip first and then open this newly unzipped file again with Archiver. There...

If I read the documentation correctly, the population growth is heavily influenced by morale of the city (and by a polution). Because AI has a bonus advantage on medium+ difficulty settings, it should have a bigger population growth by default. Later in the game, when you research buildings that inc...

Lets try again shall we. Ubuntu 12.04. Downloaded the file. i assume that since I have a 64 bit laptop, i am supposed to choose the 64 bit file. i choose the file Pandora in the binaries folder. nothing happens. The default app that is trying to open th file is pyar2, which only asks me to save the...

I learned about this game only yesterday and I insta bought it because SMAC&Linux. After first night of gameplay, I can say that this game works very well on my slightly outdated machine (C2D, Radeon 5670 with open source drivers). Framerate is good (high quality textures, medium shadows, vsync,...