OT: Master of Orion 3 is now working.

Colt · #1 June 24th, 2005, 01:30 AM

I use a few mods myself... some of them are my own concoctions but most are the work of the other moo3 fans. If you want to see most of the moo3 mods available, go to www.moo3.at . The rest are floating around as links in the many threads on the atari boards.
Here's what I'm using, to the best of my recollection anyway... can't check while I'm at work, (note there are two types of mods for MOO3 - code mods and spreadsheet mods. Code mods are generally only coming from Bhruic and Gerra, while spreadsheet mods can be made by anyone.) :

CODE MODS - Bhruic (http://bhruic.dyndns.org)
Diplomacy Fix
Finance Wrap Around Fix
Visibility Fix
Transport Disband Fix
Stuck Tech Fix
Transport Selection Mod
Queue Multiplier Mod
Ground Combat Fix
Sitrep Fix
Autobuild Mod
Colony Display Mod
Galaxy Configuration Mod
Race Selection Mod
System Defence TF Mod
TechLevel Mod
TF's Per Combat Mod

Code Mods - Gerra (links in threads here: MOO3 Mod forum)
Survivor Condition Mod
Speeder Patch
Ground Combat Text Fix
Wait Screen Remover
Ship Graphics Qualiy Mod
Zoom Range Mod
Budget Slider Mod
AU Display Mod
Transport Design Unlocker

Graphics Mods (http://www.moo3.at)
Gofurs UI Mod V.2
Star Pack
Ostego Menu Mod V1.2
New Leaf Mod
Mega Flag Pack
Combat FX+ 2.0

Other Mods (http://www.moo3.at)
Ostego's Diplomacy Fixes
Encyclopedia Mod V.4.3
Improved tech Descriptions V.4
Orion Senate Laws Mod v.1.2

Well, I think that's it. There may be a couple of others. Phew! Makes you realised how many problems the original game had, doesn't it? Many of these mods are incorporated into the mod shown in my first post. If your having trouble finding any of these mods, give me a yell and I'll let you know where they can be found.

Colt.

P.S. Hi Ron.... you hang around here too?

Tampa_Gamer · #2 June 24th, 2005, 09:01 AM

Yeah, I reinstalled MOO3 earlier this year as well and applied most of the mods at that time (I think Feb/Mar timeframe). They really did change the game. I stopped after about 150+ turns primarily due to the fact that I was up against several Orion systems and no one had told me that in addition to the patches I also needed to go in and manually change the values of their orbital bases (b/c the ECM mod/fix made them almost impossible to hit) and this could NOT be done after the game was started

I also stopped b/c, while I like real-time combat (much fairer then IGO,UGO), I refuse to play games when they do not allow us to pause and give orders. Unfortunately, no one could patch that...

Well, I guess I also stopped to start beta testing on my all-time favorite game

cshank2 · #3 June 24th, 2005, 04:35 PM

Those guardian ships are so evil. First time I played (Unmodded for the most part, had Combat FX 1.5 and a flag pack installed.) I sent a task force of about fourteen ships against the thing... Well, I barely even dented the things shields.

Gonna' have to reinstall and test it out tonight. The only thing I didn't like about MOO3 was the fact I felt like I wasnt really influencing my people like I do in SE4...