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part 4

Chapter 15: Multiplayer Strategies
    Setting up a Game
    Custom Scenarios and Maps
    Important Multiplayer Priorities

Part 4: Multiplayer Conquest

The knowledge we've given you up to this point all but guarantees your victory in the single-player campaign, where you foes will be crafty artificial intelligences, but artificial nonetheless. Once you've conquered the digital foes of Alpha Centauri on all difficulty levels, you might wonder what's next. Is there life beyond Alpha Centauri? Indeed there is.

The game offers two tracks to replayability. The first is multiplayer gaming. You can play Alpha Centauri with your friends, and compete to see who can build the greatest empire on Planet. Alternatively, you can use the game's editor to create your own scenarios and maps to continue the single-player challenge. How you do that is covered in the Appendices. That said, in this multiplayer chapter to our game guide, we'll tell you how to:

* Set up a multiplayer game and choose game perimeters for different play styles
* Show you how to deal with computer opponents
* Advise you on how to deal with human opponents
* Give you tips on ganging up on the computer

So what are you waiting for? Let's go!

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