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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, that is all it is. Nice looking eye candy. No substance.

Didn't think I'd be defending MOO3 in any forum, let alone this one, but I do think that you're being unduly harsh.

I haven't played SEIV all that much yet, but I readily agree that I like SEIV much, much more than I will ever like MOO3. That said, though, I've a mind to add some comments into the 'Tell Aaron what you'd like for SE5..." thread and when I stop to think about it, I find that a lot of my comments would boil down to "make it more like MOO3".

This is because MOO3 is in fact packed full of cool ideas even if the execution is horrible and the result an undigested mish-mash of many different peoples' ideas.

(True Fact: I was browsing around the MOO3 forums earlier today and one of the programmers was saying that they couldn't fix the part of the diplomacy system that generates the famously cryptic speeches made by AI controlled empires because it's a black box that nobody understood anymore.)

These ideas include: planets divided into regions with individual characteristics, an economic and planetary modelling system that I feel is far superior to the SEIV Version, better, more interesting ground combat, task forces with specific, designated roles for ships within them, and yes, even real-time combat.