OT: Master of Orion 3 is now working.

[Ragnarok-X]

Well well, as promised i tested it out. I reinstalled MoO 3 for the third time now. I grabbed the patcher and all patches released, both official and fan-made ones. In addition a grabbed a few mods, like better UI and GFX. And i have to admit the game is really better than it was, i just spend 5 hours playing it in a row as Taidian (?). I really much better than it was i would advise everyone who has the game to try it out once more. Its actually pretty funny to lose against the Guardian several times just because you cant break his shields, and its even more funny to construct battleship sized orbital bases and fit them with spinal mounted Rail Guns giving a range of 13k. Thanks a bunch Colt for posting this.
Now i just need to do a few personal mods, like changing effectivess of Beam bases and Fighter Bases.

BTW. if you read this, i have a question: I think Military DEAs give the benefit of allowing more than 1 planetary defense of each kind, but even though i build 3 on my homeworld i cant get more than 1 beam base, 1 fighter base and one missile base. Whats wrong here ?

To sum it up: If you have spare time, reinstall the game, apply official 1.25 patch and get the Patch Colt mentioned.

[Makinus]

Ragnarok, can you list for us the patches and mods that you installed? i´ll try Moo3 again (if i can find my cds) but would wish to try the patches/mods combination that caused you to play the game for 5 hours.... my personal record is something like 45 minutes before becoming bored with the game and going back to SEIV....

[Ragnarok-X]

Easy as it is, get the official 1.25 patch, it location is stickyied within the links Cold postet. Go into the Modding-Forums as well, at the top should be another post about inofficial patches, the first post within that post will guide to you a homepage where the patcher and several patches can be found. For your information, im using all of them.
Two more things are in the modding-forums as well, one thread is called something along "new UI", the other one offers "Combat FX 2.0). Get them as well.
Lastly, go to Apolyton.com (?) in the MoO3 section you will news regarding the "Moo3 Unofficial Patch Mod" Colt mentioned. Get that one as well. Total download is about 15 mb i think.

[Atrocities]

Ok, will try it out. Thanks Ragnarok-X.

[Ragnarok-X]

You, and everyone else really should. Still the biggest lack is the macromanagment. So to make this a smaller disadvantage i have choosen to play in small galaxies, in which you can actually monitor all of your colonies each cycle.
Im still trying to figure out to how to mod MoO3, the textfiles i decompressed all show up messed up with the editor, i think some specific tool is needed to allow proper modding.

[Grandpa Kim]

I looked but can't seem to find the demo. Anyone know where I can find it?

[Ragnarok-X]

I dont think a demo has been released for MoO 3. Even if, it would be unplayable since no patches could be applied.