Moo3 is a shareware now

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
how do you get around the expense of subways?

Well, naturally, you build up more slowly since they cost more. Let the game run at max speed while you do your thing.

Also, you can start with a regular road city to get a fast start, and once the tax money starts rolling in, just switch over to the subways for new construction and slowly retrofit the "old town" when you feel like it.

[Raging Deadstar]

Hmm the BIG Question is has eddieballgame played multiplayer SEIV? Thats where Space empires comes into a league of it's own! Nothing beats the thrill of plotting your downright dirty and scheming revenge on your best friends empire....Now excuse me but i have a cloacked sun destroyer to dispatch

[Will]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
how do you get around the expense of subways?

Well, naturally, you build up more slowly since they cost more. Let the game run at max speed while you do your thing.

Also, you can start with a regular road city to get a fast start, and once the tax money starts rolling in, just switch over to the subways for new construction and slowly retrofit the "old town" when you feel like it.

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When I used to play SimCity 2000, I would start by building a "spiral" city. Start at the edge, building roads in a spiral so that the usable land is in six-tile wide strips, in a spiral all the way to the center. At first everything is mixed, but as the game progresses, it is mainly commerce in the middle, residential surrounding it, and industrial along the outside. A bit of everything is mixed to prevent local economic colapses. Then I would slowly retrofit around the spiral to the all-subway system (starting from the center), and would begin constructing acrologies along the outside. I forget what my population eventually reached, but it was over the highest one I found on the 'Net by about 200k. I thought that was cool for about a day, then promptly got bored with it, and never played again.

ObMoO3: Haven't bought it... don't really plan to anytime in the near future. Frankly, too many bad reviews on the interface, design, and general buginess. Besides, I don't have as much time for games anymore, I still have SE3, SE4, started into Dungeon Odyssey, StarFury is coming out soon, SE5 is in the works, I have CounterStrike lying around for a frag-fest once in a while, and the somehow always-addictive Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Pinball. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime when I've graduated.

[eddieballgame]

[quote]Originally posted by Roanon:
[QB]It rather looks like the majority has the same opinion like Fyron and Atomannj. So YOU better get over it, Eddie... and personal attacks on someone just because he has a different opinion than yours are just not appropriate here.[quote]

I too like strategy games, I am a rated NM in Chess, a LM in Bridge, & am in the process of learning & studying what I consider the greatest strategy game of all-GO, as us westerners call it. (Igo, Weichi, & Baduk as it is known in the Asian community). I, of course, also enjoy many pc "strategy" games as well.
I just get a little annoyed when a certain program has been so misrepresented. MOO3 v1.2 makes your comments sound very uninformed. Just the facts as I see them. It was never my intent to "sell" MOO3, just shine the light on what I had considered some "angry" analysis. It was certainly not my intent to upset anyone.
As far as "the majority has the same opinion", I think that depends on what forums you frequent. Anyways, Go Redsox!!!

[eddieballgame]

Originally posted by Senator Raging Deadstar:
Hmm the BIG Question is has eddieballgame played multiplayer SEIV? Thats where Space empires comes into a league of it's own! Nothing beats the thrill of plotting your downright dirty and scheming revenge on your best friends empire....Now excuse me but i have a cloacked sun destroyer to dispatch

No I haven't,BUT, am very interested in trying it. The program looks awesome, very detailed. Question---How is Hotseat, have you played it that way? How is multiplay Online, is it similar to what STARS! was. Thanks

[ June 14, 2003, 07:43: Message edited by: eddieballgame ]

[Raging Deadstar]

After all this complaining and arguing over one game. I decided to check out the website and just see what it was like. Then if i was remotely impressed might download a demo of it, make up my own mind about it (if it doesn't have one i havn't found it, but that will be revealed later)

Of coursec i do a quick search, clcik on the homepages link (http://moo3.quicksilver.com/) and.....
IT DOESN'T WORK LOL

Might be my connection but i have tried connecting and disconnecting to give moo3 a fair chance to at least see what people are complaining and arguing about. But, sorry to say it, the MOO3 site is less reliable than Fyron's forums , which also haven't been working for me recently! *hint*

If anyone would care to point me to a site with some info about MOO3 and some screenshots etc i'd be most obliged, although after all the complaints i'm worried that i might have to play SEIV for another night straight to get this Moo3 idea out my head, i feel myself converting to the darkside

Anyway, i need caffeine, it's been a while i pulled an all nighter on SEIV, although i can remember doing it on the demo of SEII, that was a long time ago. But after listening to most people i'm thinking that this MOO3 game isn't going to match up to Space Empires

*The dillusioned ramblings of a sleep deprived 16 year old*

[Raging Deadstar]

I'm currently in a Hot Seat Game right now with one of my friends. It's a great way to play as theres no waiting for the upload of turns, but you must be prepared to have your friends entertained while you do your turns. Of course i have played a game where we both just watched each other so we knew exactly what each other was doing and it was one large counter move after another, it was a fun game! But i prefer the feeling of suprise when you send your fleet through an enemy wormhole