Master of Orion series

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anyone here still play this pearl of turnbased 4x?

 

I recently dusted 1 and 2 off at a friends and and after an hour or 2, I bought him out for a few bucks.

never really liked turnbased games but these 2 got me hooked somehow.

 

still don't get why my uber-strong fleet looses every fight but meh, still a learner I am...

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Oh, I love both of these games!

 

MoO1 managed to have enormous long-term playing value despite its simple interface.

 

MoO2 has lovely graphics, and I also love the shipbuilding / space battle part. What's annoying in the long run is that you'll have to build up all the colonies again, from automated factory and barracks up to whatever it is you want. I would have loved either an optional "governor" who would run that stuff for you, or the possibility to define building queues which you coud select in one click. For example, you'd define "Automated Factory - Barracks - Robo Mining Plant - Pollution Processor - Star Base - Science Lab" as a standard queue, assign a name, and then you could select that queue like an individual building - one click, and they'd build it all one after another.

 

Couldn't MoO2 be played over the internet? Playing against the computer is really great until you get the hang of it, but playing against another human would be great (or "co-op" against a bunch of computer enemies)...

[SpookyZalost 39]

I think there was a multiplayer mode for MOO2, but that these days you need something like Hamachi to use it since it was dos based?


also MOO1 and MOO2 are awesome! I play MOO1 on my linux laptop via dosbox

[T Wrecks 10,209]

I'm currently playing Master of Magic again, trying out some new combinations. However, I feel the itch of starting a new game in MoO, too. I keep coming back to it! In my case, it runs on a Win7 notebook with DOSBox. Ah, how I love DOSBox for allowing me to play all those great old games.

[Leo_the_robot 67]

Necomancy!!!!

I recently played through a game of MOO1 again, I loaded it into mac os9 inside linux to play it since that's more stable than dosbox.
was a lot of fun and if you can get the GOG versions I highly recommend them.