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SMAC Factions The Human Hive

Play as Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, leader of The Human Hive, from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

-33% unhealthiness from cities and populations.
Overall empire health caps at 5.

The Human Hive suppresses individualism for the greater good, meaning better support for large, denser populations and wide-spread empires. A lack of exceptionalism means the faction does not receive bonuses for prosperous or utopian empires.


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initial upload (v1):
- The Human Hive suffers -33% less unhealth per population as well as per city. Does not affect unhealth from city resistance or improvements.
- Empire wide health caps at 9. As such, the empire cannot receive the prosperous or utopian bonuses. Any health above 9 will still counteract future unhealth.
- -15% culture generated by cities.
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update (v2):
- Health Cap changed to 5 (was 9)(no noticable gameplay changes from before BE Fall patch).
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update (v3):
- 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 (v4):
- Fixed a potential case to cause an infinite loop and freeze the game.
- Civilopedia no longer displays entries for items such as trait-buildings.
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update (v5):
- Re-added missing art assets
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update (v6):
- Removed -15% culture penalty
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update (v7):
- Updated to winter patch
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update (v8):
- 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