I tried playing SMAC the other day but I had trouble adjusting myself to the dated interface, even though I spent so many hours playing it years back. I'd be happy with a remake of SMAC with the same gameplay but updated graphics and interface (especially the ability to give move orders that take several turns).
No Civ game comes close to Alpha Centauri for atmosphere.
Both games share a similar problem of repetitiveness, but being able to use the keyboard and muscle memory makes SMAC a lot less tedious for me.
"She's gone. She said she wants nothing more to do with me. But I saved a lock of her hair. She will be mine again..."
Still gives me shivers.
"I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment." -Anonymous, Datalinks (played when the player first constructs the hab dome building).
I always see this quote with this fresco: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rQuNLP71fA/UdonE8DAuAI/AAAAAAAAC...
I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me? So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again.
Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Time of Bereavement"
We sit together the mountain and I. Until only the mountain remains... But once, we were here."My son was asked to use the word prototype in a sentence. He said: 'people are a prototype'. I was too scared to ask what he meant."
The gameplay itself won't receive a true sequel for the same reason we won't see another civ like Civ2 or Civ4.
A media- and story-rich space game would require enormous resources to make the same impression on gamers today that SMAC made on gamers in 1999. I don't believe Firaxis has the bandwidth to do that and also do X-Com and the Civ series.