Moo3 is a shareware now

Chronon · #1 June 6th, 2003, 04:45 PM

I, too, think MoO3 has some great ideas - mostly the same ones deccan has pointed out - but it just wasn't put together very well. Perhaps it can be improved, but probably not to the point where it would be as much fun as SE4 on PBW. My major reason for abandoning the game is lack of time. In the hour that I have everyday to play, I want to play the best games I can find. These days it's SE4 (on PBW) and Hearts of Iron (solo).

Cpt. Kwok, I am looking forward to SE5 and Star Fury. If SE5 is going to be a good empire building game like SE4, with a fun real-time combat component (using the Star Fury system, or something similar), I'm all for it!

Fyron · #2 June 6th, 2003, 08:57 PM

MOO3 could have been a good game, but all those cool ideas (except how they have real time combat done) boil down to little more than eye candy because you can't really get past the AI and the GUI to actually make good use of them. Well, the ground combat might not be as useless, but with how the rest of MOO3 plays out, it is overwhelmed. Now, how they did real time combat is not very good, and should not be emulated for se5.

Master Belisarius · #3 June 7th, 2003, 02:05 AM

[quote]Originally posted by deccan:

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...and yes, even real-time combat.

Really I can agree in some of your comments, but NEVER will accept that the Moo3 real-time combat is good (or better than the SE4 tactical combat)!

I don't hate the Moo3 real-time combat because is real time... I hate it because think is one of the WORST tactical engines that I knew!
GOD, with those tiny ships, confuse orders, and withouth the "pause" button, is really hard try to play this thing...
Even OLD games like Pax Imperia2, Ascendancy and Rebellion, had better real time combat engines!! And this is not an opinion... it's a simple fact to everyone who has played those games and played Moo3 can see.

DavidG · #4 June 7th, 2003, 05:08 AM

OK so MOO3 sucks. I must be dim but I still think I'd like to try it for myself. Surely someone has some positive coments or can direct me to a forum of MOO3 fans (there must be a few

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Baron Munchausen · #5 June 7th, 2003, 05:33 AM

The 'official BETA patch' has been released on the Moo3 website and fileplanet. Yes, 'beta' is in the actual name/description of it. I guess they are now so paranoid that they won't call it a 'real' patch until it is proven successful with the public.

But this represents a fairly extensive revision of many aspects of the game. Many bugs fixed, many common-sense features add (ability to rename star systems, ability to refit ships)... Looks like it will require a re-assessment of MOO 3.

deccan · #6 June 7th, 2003, 05:49 AM

I do not believe that the MOO3 patch added the ability to refit ships.

deccan · #7 June 7th, 2003, 05:52 AM

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
I don't hate the Moo3 real-time combat because is real time... I hate it because think is one of the WORST tactical engines that I knew!
GOD, with those tiny ships, confuse orders, and withouth the "pause" button, is really hard try to play this thing...

I never meant to say that the MOO3 combat engine is good. I hate it too. I meant that the idea of real-time combat is good. Even MOO3 ground combat as implemented sucks, but the idea behind it is good.