Thread 2200496

MoO1 vs 2 vs apparently we don't talk about 3 vs Conquer the Stars where apparently mods make it OK. Which Master of Orion do you prefer? I've only ever played 2 but love it dearly, minus some of the micromanagement with planets that tends to happen

>>2200496 (OP)
RoTP, which is just a better MoO1. MoO2 has too many nested screens.

>>2201672
good game and very distilled 4x but god damn I do not like how it looks

>>2200496 (OP)
As a child and teenager I thought MOO2 was the apex
As I got older I realised how much god-damn clicking is required. The dread of seeing a list of 100 buildings appear when a new planet is colonized.

MOO1 is much more elegant with its sliders and achieves much the same outcome.

>>2200496 (OP)
I pretty grew up on 2 so that's a personal preference. Never really liked how you could stack a gorillion+1 small shitty boats and end realities in 1 either.

>>2200496 (OP)
Honestly I don't even remember MOO1 anymore,
MOO2 was my goto for ever and I always stalled out from the micromanaging.

The best tribute I found to date is this little indie game
>Interstellar Space: Genesis

>>2201672
>which is just a better MoO1
questionable plus its damn ugly

>>2200496 (OP)
Played both MOO1 and 2 for the first time as an adult so no rose-tinted glasses for me. 1 is better than 2. More polished, more elegant. 2 becomes micromanagement hell

Master of Magic is better than both
And Age of Wonders 1 is better than Master of Magic

>>2200496 (OP)
I only played 2 and I loved it, I really liked the tech research system and how creativity affects it, and also miniaturisation is amazing and I’m surprised Stellaris doesn’t have something similar, I liked to just focus on phasors and jam them in ships and blast my way

>>2200496 (OP)
im quite tired of playing MOO2 since i realised the easiest way to win on impossible was population growth + charisma and then wait for the interspace council to vote, and then i just win because i have the most votes with the highest population!

i didn't even have to beat orion or the demonic antarians. i hardly even have any spaceships when i win thru this method.

>>2201819
>Never really liked how you could stack a gorillion+1 small shitty boats and end realities in 1 either.

that is the more elegant solution compared to herding 10 + battleships to take down the orion guardian.

>>2209325
ok so just...don't use that method

>>2209417
i like winning on bullshit difficulty settings. to give the cheating computers the finger.

>>2202844
>its damn ugly
ascuse me?
who you carr ugry?
we gonna invade a yor shitty homeworrd

>>2209325
Try domination victory. But then all you have to do is rush every player and use mind control to quickly take over planets

space empires > moo (poo)

>>2210677
I was amazed with SE4. Except the AI can't play for shit. Game feels more like a sandbox because they're not a challenge at all to you.

>>2209583
A reminder that someone got commissioned to draw that smallpox survivor troon, the client okay'd it and paid for it.

>>2215953
>A reminder that someone got commissioned to draw that smallpox survivor troon, the client okay'd it and paid for it.

>>2215953
>smallpox survivor
>survivor
Pfft. I'm a common cold survivor.

>>2200496 (OP)
take the master of magic pill?

i highly recommend not trying the recent remake. wouldnt mind if they put some of the new races in a version of the old game tho

>>2217200
Never played MoM either way but I've read ridiculous things about the remake devs' incompetence. See pic related.

>>2217200
there that dunno how to name it? paid mod? rebalance? fan expansion?
Caster of magic and its pretty good
>>2217222
yeah, its awful
>>2217200
>>2217222
there is MoM lite, Master of Luna, it had demo but it disappeared on me