OT: Flowers for the grave of MoM.

Kel · #1 April 25th, 2004, 10:48 PM

I didn't even like making them at all when I could find such nifty items in lairs and nodes !

- Kel

FadingSuns · #2 June 6th, 2004, 07:07 PM

MoM alone caused me to upgrade my computer. The animation for the nodes brought my 486 to a stuttering standstill. I loved the game enough to sink cash into a new system just to get that one part to run smoothly.
Dom2 might do the same for me now. I can run the battles smoothly with the 'world' hidden, but where's the fun with that? Lush battle graphics deserve to be seen!
MoM is still going to be #1 for me, at least until I start being able to stomp some races in Dom2. Gotta love the Myrror world!

Anglachel · #3 June 6th, 2004, 07:33 PM

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Originally posted by FadingSuns:
MoM alone caused me to upgrade my computer. The animation for the nodes brought my 486 to a stuttering standstill. I loved the game enough to sink cash into a new system just to get that one part to run smoothly.
Dom2 might do the same for me now. I can run the battles smoothly with the 'world' hidden, but where's the fun with that? Lush battle graphics deserve to be seen!
MoM is still going to be #1 for me, at least until I start being able to stomp some races in Dom2. Gotta love the Myrror world!

Oh Wow! Your name just reminded me of a game that I really liked that I would love to find a copy of if there is one around. Empire of the Fading Sun. Flawed as it was, I loved that game and its flavor.

PDF · #4 June 6th, 2004, 08:29 PM

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Originally posted by Anglachel:

quote:
Originally posted by FadingSuns:
MoM alone caused me to upgrade my computer. The animation for the nodes brought my 486 to a stuttering standstill. I loved the game enough to sink cash into a new system just to get that one part to run smoothly.
Dom2 might do the same for me now. I can run the battles smoothly with the 'world' hidden, but where's the fun with that? Lush battle graphics deserve to be seen!
MoM is still going to be #1 for me, at least until I start being able to stomp some races in Dom2. Gotta love the Myrror world!

Oh Wow! Your name just reminded me of a game that I really liked that I would love to find a copy of if there is one around. Empire of the Fading Sun. Flawed as it was, I loved that game and its flavor.

The mods -much better than the original- are also still floating around.

I still have everything installed, but have difficulty playing MoM and EoFS with my new Athlon2400xp rig - still in W98SE but my old mem settings with emm386 don't work anymore ...

[ June 07, 2004, 14:53: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

PrinzMegaherz · #5 June 6th, 2004, 09:33 PM

I do not like Emporer of the Fading sun. Covering whole planetary surfaces with different factory sites is annoying and in addition a logistical nightmare. The AI is much to hard and builds insane amounts of everything even on the easiest difficulty level.

By the time I got my first dreadnought the AI had several of them orbiting nearly every planet.

Well, maybe its just me, but this game is far too much work to be any fun

Stormbinder · #6 June 6th, 2004, 10:04 PM

MoM was great. Overall IMHO MoM model is better for SP (I love having control over my troops in battle), Dom2 model is better for MP.

It was about 10 years since I've played MoM for the Last time, and I don't have the copy anymore but I still remeber that game very kindly. And I still remeber the introduction:

"OLDMAN!!! YOU SEEK THE SPELL OF MASTERY!"

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Originally posted by izaqyos:
For me MOM is still the #1 SP game.
Dominions II is a great great game, just that in SP it tends to bog down to a very slow pace in the end game.
BTW to those of you who loved MOM I recommend to check leylines

What are these leylines? I think I've heard that name before...

[ June 06, 2004, 21:07: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]

Karacan · #7 June 6th, 2004, 10:07 PM

EoFS works fine for my AthlonXP on WinXP, and I still pbem it, for which it's perfect. I don't think there were many broken things with it... I absolutely loved the diplomacy model. It felt as if it really worked, even with the AI.

And, really, it's one of the perfect pbem games, despite non-simultaneous turns, because of the incredible intricate political complexities involved. Reminded me very much of Junta the boardgame, where the eternal issue was to find the one Minister of the Inerior among the players you could trust...