Sid Meier Alpha Centauri - 20th anniversary

[Winthur]

I disagree that Morgan is so bad as you make him sound, @Winthur . Sure, he is worst than the obvious ones like Hive or Domai due to the game unfotunately still favoring ICS*. But aside from that "first tier" he is one of the strongest ones due to his economy. And if you manage to grab enough initial land to expand and then turtle up in Wealth+Free Market / Wealth+Green he is pretty good.

Morgan is literally the one character whose best strategy is ICS. I can't deny he can be optimized, but his honest best period is the early/midgame right after getting FM, cashing in his free credits and reaping Energy from multitude of low pop cities with +2 Energy on central square each. He falls off immediately later. Morgans traits don't make him a good economist at all, or a competitive research powerhouse; Free Market does. What Morgan gets ultimately is FM while in Green, which isn't better than what University and UNP gets.

He is simply not overpowered at all.