Forum Overview :: Master of Orion 1-2-3

Bought this, regretted it by fabio 07/22/2012, 10:13pm PDT On sale for $5 on steam so I scooped it up. Eh. Only dicked around for 15 minutes but was totally unimpressed. It seems like the whole thing is all of the bad changes they made to MoO 2: planet moral, individual buildings on every planet, fussing with transports to shuffle population around. They managed to make them all worse too. Moral now requires expensive buildings instead of just a barracks, you have to keep track of multiple construction queues for each construction building on each planet, and transporting population requires you to build transports, load them up, then set up parameters for automated population transfer runs that you'll probably forget about and fuck up later. Then none of the good MoO 2 changes made it. I was fully prepared for no ship customization since Armada 2525 didn't have it. I was even prepared for no control over combat, Gratuitous Space Battles style. The actual combat is even worse. You HAVE to control your ships, because they'll all just sit there brain dead getting shot up in real time. There is no satisfying zoom level. The interface screens are too cluttered and ugly. The interface from the old 1990 original is actually much better! The battles were easier to tell what was going on. Everything was more clear cut. Maybe there's some gem hidden here. But the interface and requirement that you micromanage it is going to shelve this one for a while.

For turn-based space 4x, I recommend Armada 2526. NT by The Armada 2526 Recommender 03/23/2012, 10:21am PDT     I heard the combat for that was boring. Review plz. NT by Mischief Maker 03/23/2012, 11:47am PDT         Sure. But is combat ever NOT boring in 4X? NT by The Armada 2526 Recommender 03/23/2012, 12:18pm PDT             Sword of the Stars, MOO1, Starships Unlimited. NT by Mischief Maker 03/23/2012, 5:12pm PDT                 Re: Sword of the Stars, MOO1, Starships Unlimited. by Festus McGee 03/24/2012, 10:36am PDT                     Are you kidding me??? by Mischief Maker 03/24/2012, 12:28pm PDT                         Still trying to like it by fabio 03/24/2012, 1:33pm PDT                             From what I read, Armada 2526 is probably what you're looking for. by Mischief Maker 03/24/2012, 2:03pm PDT                                 Re: From what I read, Armada 2526 is probably what you're looking for. by fabio 03/24/2012, 2:15pm PDT                                     MOO ships were mathematical abstracts. by Mischief Maker 03/24/2012, 2:54pm PDT                                         Re: MOO ships were mathematical abstracts. by fabio 03/24/2012, 3:49pm PDT                                             Does King Arthur count? by Mischief Maker 03/24/2012, 6:28pm PDT                                                 Is King Arthur worth $5 + time? NT by fabio 03/28/2012, 2:43pm PDT                                                     $5??? Fuck yeah. by Mischief Maker 03/28/2012, 4:27pm PDT                                             Just a reminder: SOTS2 still sucks and you should not buy it for even 5$ by WITTGENSTEIN 03/25/2012, 9:41am PDT                                                 Essentially, SOTS is RISK, so it was a mistake adding all that shit anyway. by Mischief Maker 03/25/2012, 3:39pm PDT                                                     Re: Essentially, SOTS is RISK, so it was a mistake adding all that shit anyway. by N 03/25/2012, 6:51pm PDT                                                         MOO1 had randomized tech by fabio 03/25/2012, 9:55pm PDT         I'd also like a review by fabio 03/23/2012, 12:29pm PDT             I didn't actually play it enough for a full review. by The Armada 2526 Recommender 03/24/2012, 10:35am PDT                 C'mon! Don't be a pussy! by Mischief Maker 03/25/2012, 8:49am PDT     Bought this, regretted it by fabio 07/22/2012, 10:13pm PDT