Improved Castles/Forts

Circon · Post by **Circon** » May 28th, 2004, 6:24 am

MOO beats them all.

Post by **Sangel** » May 28th, 2004, 6:38 am

I presume you're talking about MOO 1 & 2. MOO 3 was a travesty which, if anyone asks, we can point out as the very antithesis of everything Wesnoth stands for.

Circon · Post by **Circon** » May 28th, 2004, 8:09 am

By not putting a number after it, I meant the original Master of Orion. Sirian has a very nice page on it

. I especially love this quote:

When's the last time you played Civ3, had sixteen cities, and nearly got your butt kicked by a three city civ? Never? Yeah, I never had that happen either.

Anyone have an idea where I can get it?

Privan · Post by **Privan** » May 28th, 2004, 10:23 am

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=688

Insinuator · Post by **Insinuator** » May 29th, 2004, 6:33 am

Sangel wrote:I presume you're talking about MOO 1 & 2. MOO 3 was a travesty which, if anyone asks, we can point out as the very antithesis of everything Wesnoth stands for.

Not having had the pleasure of playing MOO (a sad acronym if I ever saw one) 1 or 2, I was definetly disappointed with the third one. What started out as interesting, became extraordinarily tedious. The game is so freaking long!

I played for hours before even reaching other species, and the AI for planet management was horrible! Is it really true that the first two were better?

Post by **Sangel** » May 29th, 2004, 7:45 am

Insanely better. Smoother, more streamlined and far more elegant while retaining sufficient complexity to be involving, along with many of the hallmarks of which make the series so good - technological development areas, custom ship design, etc.

Post by **Dave** » May 29th, 2004, 3:16 pm

Space-based strategy games really don't do it for me :-/

I need green grass, and hills, and oceans, and forests!

I do have dreams to one day build an empire building game

David

Circon · Post by **Circon** » May 29th, 2004, 6:15 pm

Sangel wrote:Insanely better. <snip>

You forgot the insanely good AI. 12 years old, and it can plan strategically while modern games only react tactically. It can't be bluffed with a good RNG roll, and it has gratitude. Not kidding.