moo2 or CTP

[AIL]

I tried 4 of my older games in the laste time.
These were Civ3, Civ1, Moo2 & Moo1.
Civ 3 drove me mad, when I saw the AI even with the newest patch still does not care about industrialization!
Civ became boring when I had too many Cities and these very unhappy people to care about. The AI is so increadibly bad compared to Civ 3, I just could not play any further!
Moo 2 took me so much time just to recognize I am far superior to anyone else and besides 2 little wars in the very beginning there's been nothing but making build qeues over and over again.
Moo 1 was definetely the most enjoyable games of these. On hard I never know If I would win or not.

So I'd propose download Moo1 from some Abandonware-Site and have a nice time with it waiting for Moo3!

Best site to get it is the site of Jon Sullivan. (don't know the adress, try "sullivan" + "master of orion" in a search engine. There you'll find how to get it to work on your PC, the latest patch, the solution for the copy protection, the manual as txt-File and several guides aswell.

[RolandtheMad]

Pah. I`d go get Moo1 that way but I`m too spoiled by modern graphics. Anything worse than say Moo2 makes my eyes bleed. However I have caught wind of a project to revamp Moo1 though.. mmm I can`t seem to find it now but I know it exists because I remember seeing screens for it. Anyone else know of this?

[Urban Ranger]

Check the MoO1/2 section.

[vmxa1]

Yes someone has been posting work on an update Moo1 and it looks nice. I just do not know if the project is too big to be done alone.

[Harry Seldon]

Originally posted by Kloreep
MOO3 DG would be cool. I'd join.

How exactly does one play a democracy game?

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon


How exactly does one play a democracy game?

Essentially, a bunch of people get together and make decisions together. You have one person who actually plays the game, but everyone gets a voice in the decisions.

Look at this thread from the Civ3 Demogame. Lots of good explanations & links (and a lot of shameless party advertisement you can ignore ); while most of it is Civ3 Demogame specific, it should give you the basic idea.

[AIL]

I tried to redo Moo1 aswell and at least for me it was a bit too big! I had a starmap with Planets in it, that you could let build factories, bases and ships (only premade designs). Waste was correctly calculated, Klackon- and Meklar-Boni were in and worked. The Ships appeared on the Map, but that's were I stopped it. Anything else you could ask for is not in.

A very difficult thing alone were these 5 Sliders that all interact with each other.
However the graphics of a one person project are very likely to not be better than in the original. Exept he's a good programmer and artist in one person.

[Kc7mxo]

One of the biggest reasons I liked moo2, was that the planetary system resembles civ's city managment sytem. You deploy citizens to jobs, and each planet has a maximum number of cities. Planets can only build one thing at a time. . . .

I basically saw moo2 as civ in space, with monsters!