Discussion on 4X games.

[Baron Munchausen]

I've been reading further in the MOO3 site. The discussions in the forums are interesting but reveal some not-so-good ideas for MOO3. The 'event management' system where you get events to 'play' against other players is weird. As someone objecting to it pointed out, it makes MOO into 'Magic: The Gathering' rather than a 4X game. So perhaps MOO 3 is not going to be so perfect as it seemed at first. But, they have made major design changes already. The "ethos" system seems to have been dropped, for example. I guess it was too complex. Or they discovered that they were trying to program something that people wanted to do for themselves, the 'role playing' of their races. I hope they allow this strange 'event management' system to be disabled, at least.