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Pandora: First Contact - Gold Edition, the science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game from Proxy Studios can now be found for Linux gamers on GOG.

Disclosure: GOG provided me with a key.

It's been a long time since I played Pandora: First Contact, but I do remember it fondly for being a rather good 4X game in the spirit of Alpha Centauri, while also still very much being its own game.

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The Gold Edition that GOG has is essentially the main game, along with the Eclipse of Nashira DLC. The DLC makes the game a fair bit more interesting, with all the newer covert warfare mechanics.

It's not the newest of games, but if you're a fan of strategy games and you've not looked at it before it's a worthy choice to put a lot of time into. As you can imagine, a game of this kind has a pretty big feature list and it will take you time to learn it all, it's interesting though and looks pretty good graphically too.

I still love the intro to this game, with spaceships arriving at the planet Nashira, with ships flying down and it fades out as you see a ship enter the atmosphere, then it directly drops you into the game with you landing in the background—slick!

The initial font size is a little on the small side, if you also find that's the case go into the Settings, then into Video and select "Plain - Large" from the Font Style drop-down box, it makes it much clearer and makes for an easier time on the eyes.

The copy from GOG worked perfectly without issues for me. Find Pandora: First Contact on GOG and Steam. It's actually on sale on GOG with 69% off which is a fantastic deal.

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Purple Library Guy Dec 12, 2017
Quoting: dmantioneOnly when that happens, it makes sense to construct a second city. Migration of population to the new city is automatic in the new city and is affected by the amount of habitat, polution, and morale in the city.
There can also be tactical reasons. It can be worth it to build a city just to grab the territory the new city is on, so that even if it might not technically be worth it yet to snag that strategic resource, it's better than letting your enemy get it and deny it to you.
Philadelphus Dec 13, 2017
Thanks for the long explanation. Some of those points (randomized tech tree, advanced hostile race gating in) remind me of Stellaris. :) I've never played Alpha Centauri myself, so my only real points of comparison are Civilization 3–5 and Beyond Earth.
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