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  • #1

    Game or Speedsheet ?

    After seeing Screenshots and reading on MOO3, it
    seems more like a astral Windows Spreedsheet (tabs, layer of date etc.) than a Game with character and atmosphere.
    I hope I'm wrong as I loved MOO2..
    I do hold more hope for Galactic Civilizations at the point..
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    While I hope for as much spreadsheet as I can possibly get. I almost never play beyond ten colonies with Moo2, because the MM spreadsheet is so comfortable with ten. I hope they make Moo3 an excel simulation, myself.
    "The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
    "I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.

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    • #3
      Spread sheet is not so bad, look at Stars!. GalCiv is way out in the future. We will be lucky to see it by then end of 2003.

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      • #4
        Ditto for the 2 above...

        Maybe I'm biased as in the early days I earned my first money by professionally teaching the use of Lotus 1-2-3 (DOS version...), QuattroPro and later Excel?????


        More seriously, character and atmosphere are not necessarily opposed to a solid spreadsheetlike game data foundation.
        Numbers and tables merely *represent* something, which can then properly have or lack the attention-catching attributes you seek.

        Then, if you can *also* master the relations between the underlying data, possibly with a spreadsheet, you will... "Excel" at the game, without for this reason losing or spoiling the game appeal...
        I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it (Holden Caulfield)

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        • #5
          Oh great, the next time I run across a PC game for accountants I'll let you guys know...

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          • #6
            i guess the animations will bring a lot of life in the game...
            Besides, space battles will be a lot fun
            "Give us peace in our time",

            Stuart Adamson, singer from Big Country, 1958-2001.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by ACEofHeart
              Oh great, the next time I run across a PC game for accountants I'll let you guys know...
              I'm "counting" on it!
              I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it (Holden Caulfield)

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              • #8
                Down with spreadsheet
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                (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                • #9
                  As a former spreadsheet basher (as in, What do writers need Excel for?), I can say now the stuff you can do with Excel is too cool. Especially graph representation.

                  Click on my sig to see to get a MilCalc. Estimates Pre-Espionage a rival Civs military strength.

                  And all under the power of Excel.

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