POST your favorite CUSTOM Race ;)

[KFizzle]

my favorite custom races:

unification, tolerant, +1production
unification, aquatic, creative, large homeworld
subterranean, lithovore, +50%growth, large homeworld
&
unification, subterranean, aquatic, rich & large homeworld.

[vmxa1]

Looks like you mean post your 4 fav races.

[Old n Slow]

I'm still new to the game, but uni, sub, creative looks real good so far (and since I have v 1.2, I get either LHW or RHW as well)

Minuses seem to be low grav, ground & .5 food.

[Kaptain Ken]

Old n Slow

I highly recomend DL the patch and playing v1.31 as it is much improved. There are lots of fun combinations, as you play more you will probably get away from creative. Use whatever you enjoy and have fun. Happy mooing.

PS See thread "Custom Race Best Stats" for lots of good info.

[vmxa1]

Okd N Slow, watch out for much of the advice or positions posted here as they come from a 1.31 perspective. Version 1.2 is just a different game altogether. You can get spoiled in 1.2 with the AI surrending so easily, Gyros being so powerful as are plasma cannons and of course creative being only 6 picks. IIRC in 1.2 they had a different perspective on attacking, inititive was not used.
Some crash issues were address in 1.31, it is pretty rare now, but not unheard of.

[Old n Slow]

Yeah, I might get 1.31 when they lump it in with MOO3 as a discount package -- maybe 2, 3 years from now. I finally picked up Civ III that way (and now have four copies of Civ II). -- Should open up my SMAC sometime this summer. My Round “Tu-its” are rusty but they do move.

I’m happily settling into MOO2 as a regular game in with my comfortable mix of Civ II, LOM, & the Generals; heard some good things about the Heroes of Might & Magic -- will get it when I see it (cheap, of course -- I’m patient about these things).

[Iasius]

The 1.31 patch is available free of course. For example here: ftp://ftp.infogrames.net/patches/moo2/moo2v131.zip

[vmxa1]

You should have been able to find Heroes II and III very cheap by now, IV is still some what new.
They have several packages that includes II & III.
Homm is one of my all time favs.

[Kaptain Ken]

So where have all the Moo2 players gone?

Btw Unification with just about anything is a good custom race

[vmxa1]

Probably playing Galciv trying to data patch for Moo3. Me, I am in the late mid game of a special run in MM7 posted on 3DO boards. Been at it a fews days and starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The starting parting had zero for starting attributes and no equipment, not even a knife, so it was a very hard and slow start. No skills either very ugly.

[Kaptain Ken]

vmxa1,

What is your current opinion of CalCiv and Moo3(as patched so far). I am still waiting to purchase either one pending more reviews and patches. Meantime I still play Moo2 and visit these threads.

[vmxa1]

Well I found some fun in GalCiv for a few games, but without much combat and no tactical combat, I was not not anxious to keep playing. I expect to fit in a game from time to time.
I has not gotten back to Moo3 since the data update. I am waiting for the patch and then will play again.
I think in the long run, I wil prefer Moo3 as i has tactical combat and the battles were fun.
I expect to play more Moo1 and Moo2 in the next year than either of those games thought.
They will fall in with Space Empires IV as games I play every now and then. That does not make them bad games.

[vmxa1]

I am down to the last two quest and two long tunnels to fight througt in MM7 and then I will paly either Moo1 or Moo2 or both.
I think I will be making a Warlord/Feudal run next.

[Kaptain Ken]

Thanks for your views, think I will wait on buying, but just got Moo3 from a friend (Loan) so I can try it out.

[vmxa1]

Let us know how it went.