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Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

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Originally posted by Mephisto:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Actually, the game was SE: Quadrant Wars, and it has been put on hold.

I think it is called SE: Starfury and it has not been put on hold - definitly.<hr /></blockquote>No, Starfury is a different game than Quadrant Wars. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

Starfury is an SE-based game that is eaither FPS or RPG(depending on what rumours you want to listen to) whereas SE: System Wars(which was formerly named Quadrant Wars) is a system-level SE-based RTS game in which the RTS engine is supposed to form the base for SE:V. All this can be found out simply by emailing Malfador and asking them, I've never had any trouble with them they have been quite open with me and I would assume them to be so with all their fans.

Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

Well I think that MOO3 is going to be good. Even if the reviewers trash it. I am going to buy it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

Here is my two cents...I have played a lot of wargame genres...and I prefer the Space Themed one...My first few were...and man i am dating myself..
Imperium Galactica by SSI
Reach For the Stars by SSG
and finally..
Master of Orion

What I hope wont happen to MOO3 is what happened to Reach for the Stars II came out...it had so many possibilities...and but...was somehow gave me that empty feeling..graphics can only go so far...but damn replaybility...and most importantly
TIME! if my time is wasted...i would be very disappointed...but then again it would not be the first time.
Anyway...I read it..don't know till it comes out on the 16 Jan 2003..and I have a reserved copy...sheesh...wish all of us wargamers luck! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
No, Starfury is a different game than Quadrant Wars. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Oh. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

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I am not yet convinced that MOO3 will actually be released before the suits kill it completely.

I had not heard about this, could you elaberate?

Well, you have to consider that this is a cynical, pessimistic, burnt-out ex-computer programmer speaking. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

I have not followed MOO3's development very closely, in part because I've only played MOO and not MOO2. I tried reading some of the material posted on the Web site, and got put off by a number of things.

Virtually everything I have heard about MOO3 since I gave up on the site has been negative. Multiple release delays, the most innovative new features cut, the lead designer leaving the company, bad blood and attitude problems between the remaining developers and some of the fans. Things that are being touted as strengths make the game even less attractive to me. (You need Excel to mod the data files!?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif )

I haven't actually heard any rumors that management might cancel MOO3, but everything I have heard in the Last year or so sounds like the game is experiencing Death By A Thousand Cuts.

I frankly expect that whatever form it's finally released in, it will provoke as sharply divided opinions as Civ III did.

Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

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Things that are being touted as strengths make the game even less attractive to me. (You need Excel to mod the data files!?! )

You don't need Ecxel, it's just that the format is compatible with Excel.

[ December 29, 2002, 22:06: Message edited by: Lemmy ]

Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

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Originally posted by Lemmy:
You don't need Ecxel, it's just that the format is compatible with Excel.

Then what else is it compatible with? If the answer is just excel, You've only said that a car is a four-wheeled vehicle.

Re: Anyone think Masters of Orion 3 will be any good??

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Originally posted by Lemmy:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />I thought the Imperial Focus Points system had been cut...

Yes it has, the thought behind it was that the player shouldn't be forced to leave things to the AI, but the AI should be good enough so that the player would want to leave things to the AI.<hr /></blockquote>Figures, the one innovative idea they have gets cut. Ah well, they probably wouldn't have implemented it well anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif