The architects of the atrocity against gaming called master of orion3
and show them this
Basically if Moo3 had this engine for its combat system, the Moo2 collective would have borne them children, paid $199/copy for the game and probably hand ground altars to their loving gratitude, and offering free rimjobs to their unborn greatgrandchildren for creating a work of gaming art.
Bah! MOO 3 was terrible before you even got to fighting anyone. Planets divided into DEAs? Prohibitively expensive terraforming upkeep? Heavy foot of government negating any benefits of expansion? Tech advances that hardly give any benefit? Fuck that.
I still play MOO 2, and it is still sublime. Pity they lost all of that magic in MOO 3. MOO 3 was a essentially a Pax Imperia ripoff, and Pax Imperia was terrible.
Yeah, I’d say Homeworld is the best for simulating giant space battles. I wish I could get the Battlestar Galactica mod to work but I could never figure out what was wrong. I believe there’s also a Gundam mod out there.
There was also a B5 mod, you don’t even bother attacking earth alliance destroyers with small craft, they are like a fracking bug light for fighters/bombers.
And you still have a game with WAY too much micromanagement. I’m sorry, MOO2 was good in its day in no small part because it had no competition. There’s no way I’d want to go back to building a hydroponic farm on every planet at this point.
I gotta disagree with you on that one. The autobuild ain’t great, but it works. Rush build a defensive or production building on a new colony’s first turn, and forget about it until it starts building trade goods. A few dozen “fire and forget” colonies will develop into a new galactic heartland sooner than you’d think, with minimal player effort.
MOO2 had Autobuild? I don’t even remember that feature. What I do remember is that the AI you’re competing with is such ass that it probably couldn’t do any better than that for itself anyway.
I find the game, in hindsight, having played other products, to be micromanagey, unbalanced, and, well… lets just say it hasn’t aged well.
Also, MOO2 was massively epic scale if you had a dedicated group to play multiplayer with. Turn down the research rate, huge galaxy, and damn that was a semester worth of fun at two hours a night or so.
