Recycle Old Threads Drive Canceled!

[deccan]

Originally posted by eddieballgame:
I have never played MOO1 but from what I have read it is more like MOO3 than MOO2. What little I have played of MOO2 pales in detail of what MOO3 has to offer. ( opinion )

Um, MOO1 combat was exactly like MOO2 combat except that ships of the same type stack. (Not an opinion.)

Originally posted by eddieballgame:
From what I have read, the consensus is the tactical ship battles are superior to MOO2, & more realistic.

It's more realistic because it avoids the problem of giving the person who goes first such a large advantage, but it's disappointing in probably every other aspect, e.g. non-pausable, lack of tactical options (no choice of formations), lack of pre-battle positioning, lack of information on enemy ships, weird issues and bugs (PD, ECM/ECCM, AI pathfinding etc.)

[deccan]

Originally posted by eddieballgame:
[QB]It strikes me, by the "tone" of these Posts pertaining to MOO3, there are going to be some dissappointed people if & when this program's faults have been addressed & "fixed" by the soon to come patch.[QB]

I've gone into this in more detail on the MOO3 official forums:

http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums...hreadid=292411

In brief, I believe that MOO3 is a great MP game, allowing MP games to go by relatively quickly and easily. However, the cost of this has been SP playability, with many options eliminated, simplified or handed over to the AI so that each turn will take only a fixed amount of time regardless of the state of development of the empire or the current circumstances of the game. I remember reading an interview in which the designers said that they were aiming for a max combat duration of 3 minutes. That's great for MP, not for SP.

[Taz-in-Space]

I am resurrecting this 'dead' thread to announce that there is no way to make new threads!

That's right - there is a problem with this part of shrapnel's forum. I appears to me that we may have gone over the magic number of threads allowed.

Until this problem is fixed I propose those with old threads 'recycle' them.

To do so go to an old thread of YOURS and edit the original post. RENAME IT. Then add a new post to start the 'new' thread going.

Note: best done with small threads. AND DEAD ONES ONLY PLEASE!

[Fyron]

Yeah... I posted something in the Ask Shrapnel Games forum Category about this.

[Kamog]

I like Will's idea to use the Starfury forum in the meantime until the problem is fixed.

[Will]

w00t! I had an idea!

Oh god, I just used 1337-speak...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i 7331 your pain will, i 7331 your pain.