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Let me start by saying that while this is my first post here I have been lurking off and on (here and in some of the other forums) for the past year or so.
Prior to the release I was filled with anticipation and excitement at everything I had read. I managed to get myself to the local game shop an hour after they received the game to pick up my copy.
My first impressions of the game were similar to many others here. I felt a bit superfluous. I didn't have a damn clue as to whether or not what I was doing was good or bad or if it even had much of an effect at all. I was somewhat disappointed but hadn't given up hope yet.
I decided to start playing differently, and approached the game how I thought they "the developers" designed it to be played. This brought much better results. I was still not happy with the enforced micromanagment of military build queues due to the AI's insatiable appetite for groung troops (I had long since made troop ships obsolete so the AI's fetish for those was taken care of), but overall I was hooked.
So just as I approached MOO3 nirvana disaster strikes. The rumor of the AI's inability to mount any sort of offensive whatsoever began to circulate. I thought to myself and realized that I hadn't ever been attacked by more than 1-3 ships at a time and certainly hadn't had a planet assaulted with ground troops. I began to worry and called all my friends who also play to ask if they had. They all thought about it for a bit and answered that no they hadn't.
Rock bottom folks. That is where I am now. With the AI as it stands now, MOO3 isn't even a game. It is a pointless simulation of you taking over the galaxy. As it stands now it is the equivalent of a chess program in which the computer will never make a move to capture a piece. "What do you mean I am not a good chess player? I can beat that computer on Grand Master level every time!"
Rantz has communicated that they probably won't even start working on a patch for another couple of weeks which is very disheartening. How can this not be an emergency, highest priority fix? So for now MOO3 goes onto the shelf joining other sad and lonely "coulda been great games".
Ever the optimist, as soon as a patch addresses the issue I will fire this puppy back up again but for those of you who are wondering whether or not you should buy the game I recommend to wait until the patch(s) come out. There isn't a single reason in the galaxy to play it until then.
Cheers
Prior to the release I was filled with anticipation and excitement at everything I had read. I managed to get myself to the local game shop an hour after they received the game to pick up my copy.
My first impressions of the game were similar to many others here. I felt a bit superfluous. I didn't have a damn clue as to whether or not what I was doing was good or bad or if it even had much of an effect at all. I was somewhat disappointed but hadn't given up hope yet.
I decided to start playing differently, and approached the game how I thought they "the developers" designed it to be played. This brought much better results. I was still not happy with the enforced micromanagment of military build queues due to the AI's insatiable appetite for groung troops (I had long since made troop ships obsolete so the AI's fetish for those was taken care of), but overall I was hooked.
So just as I approached MOO3 nirvana disaster strikes. The rumor of the AI's inability to mount any sort of offensive whatsoever began to circulate. I thought to myself and realized that I hadn't ever been attacked by more than 1-3 ships at a time and certainly hadn't had a planet assaulted with ground troops. I began to worry and called all my friends who also play to ask if they had. They all thought about it for a bit and answered that no they hadn't.
Rock bottom folks. That is where I am now. With the AI as it stands now, MOO3 isn't even a game. It is a pointless simulation of you taking over the galaxy. As it stands now it is the equivalent of a chess program in which the computer will never make a move to capture a piece. "What do you mean I am not a good chess player? I can beat that computer on Grand Master level every time!"
Rantz has communicated that they probably won't even start working on a patch for another couple of weeks which is very disheartening. How can this not be an emergency, highest priority fix? So for now MOO3 goes onto the shelf joining other sad and lonely "coulda been great games".
Ever the optimist, as soon as a patch addresses the issue I will fire this puppy back up again but for those of you who are wondering whether or not you should buy the game I recommend to wait until the patch(s) come out. There isn't a single reason in the galaxy to play it until then.
Cheers
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