Any One Here Still Play

[Val]

Noted - I will stay away from Civ III

Pax Imperium : Eminent Domain was no where near as much fun as the original, try to track it down, should be cheap

How is Dungeon Odyssey ?

[Quikngruvn]

Originally posted by Val:
How is Dungeon Odyssey ?

Addictive! The first patch was released earlier this week to fix some of the worst bugs/issues, so it's even more addictive.... Now, if I can ever get around to working on my own module....

Quikngruvn

[Escaflowne]

Let me see... how many games have been mentioned... if I miss a few it's because I didn't write them down, or never played them and don't have an educated opinion.

Civ2 - I swear, this game is one of the BEST games ever created in the history of computer gaming. Everything is perfect, everything is balanced, my only ***** about it is that they use settlers to do terrain improvements.

Civ3 - This game was a big disappointment. The units are unbalanced to say the least, it still uses settler type units to mess with terrain and the Strategic Resources, while an interesting idea, are poorly done. No matter how large I am, the new resources alway show up in someone else's territory.

Alpha Centauri - This is another good game. My favorite thing is to go as the Giains and then just use mind boils to kick the living daylights of all the other factions. At the end of the game when the fungus is blowing up in ten places every turn, destroying all my improvements, I'm even better off then before! Still need to use settler type units for terrain though. It maddens me no end.

What would I use instead of settlers? Good question, glad you asked. I like what Call To Power did. Every turn a certain percentage of total empire production went into a 'Public Works' account. You then spent from that account to built roads and change terrain. You can change the amount you send into the account from 0-100% but the more you send to public works, the less you have to build buildings and units with. Interesting idea, I hope to see more of it in the future.

Reach For The Stars - Interesting game... in a scripted linear kinda way. No real ability to do much in it then read a script. Not real fun after 2-3 times through max. And the random game AI sucks it own ***.

Rebellion - My biggest beef with Rebellion is that disasters and heavy bombardments will not only destroy troops and facilities, it will remove your ability to rebuilt them in the future.
I've had 15/15 systems go to 2/0 after a bad disaster. That's like having a Large Breathable planet go to a Tiny Unbreathable. Other then that... I think it just takes a bit to long to get going. I wish it would give X amount of troops and facilities and you get to choose roughtly what planets they are on at the start.

Moo - I still play this game a lot. I have a roughly 50/50 win/loss ratio on the hardest setting. Clue is smaller ships win, numbers overwhelm all.

Moo2 - I like the game fine. The ability to customize ships was great. The down side was that super productive planets couldn't build multiple units at once. Nor can SE4 or most other 4x games. to bad I lost the CD a while ago.

Conquest of the New World - This is a fun little game. Older then hell though. If the computer players get a big economic lead on you, like they have 3-4 citiies and you have one... you are dead, just a matter of time. If you can get 3-4 cities relatively quickly you've already won. Get a decent army, either through a lot of expensive training, or kiling the natives and the war for independence is a piece of cake. The combat engine is really the best part of the game. Two big armies clashing in a new (old?) perspective of turn based tactical combat.

I really want to get my hands on Moo3 when it comes out. Also, anyone know where I can get Moo2 cheap?

Did I miss anything?

[Wardad]

Cyber Empires (AKA Steel Empires) - Old but Cool DOS 4x turn based games with armies of Mechs. My first 4X addiction.

Also... CyberStorm (1) Mission Force, windows, a good turn based Mech squad game with a story line.

And... CyberStorm (2) Corporate Wars, windows, select either turn based or simultaneous mode. Good story line, and the competition keeps merging to increase the challange.

and for those devils among us.....
Chaos Overlords, windows, Strategic Gang Warfare

a favorite standby...
Deadlock

BTW, I tried playing BOTF again. Constant Game Crashes!!! What happened??? It used to be Ok as long as I didn't do certain things in game, and saved often. (WIN98SE)

[ November 11, 2002, 17:45: Message edited by: Wardad ]

[Fyron]

I really want to get my hands on Moo3 when it comes out. Also, anyone know where I can get Moo2 cheap?

Chips and Bits, maybe. Or, try Amazon.

[Skulky]

slightly OT, but what is the deal with MOO3? Is it coming out, ever? and will it be good you think? Better tahn SE4 if that is possible/comparable? My only experience with it was a mod/secenario for Civilization 2: Fantasy Worlds (Or something similar, it was basically Civ 2 in space).

[dogscoff]

255 is a lot of systems to colonize/conquer. I'd rather have more players allowed in the game myself. Or better yet, both.

Imagine a gigantic map with thousands of systems but with only a small percentage of those systems actually habitable (Let alone favourable). Then have 50 or 60 empires and neutrals messing about in there and the possibilities would be truly limitless.

Supply and movement vales would have to be modded (Proportions mod?) to make it playable but that would be sooooo cool...