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Anonymous11/03/25, 14:37No.2200496Master of Orion
MoO1 vs 2 vs apparently we don't talk about 3 vs Conquer the Stars where apparently mods make it OK. Which Master of Orion do you prefer? I've only ever played 2 but love it dearly, minus some of the micromanagement with planets that tends to happen
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Anon11/03/25, 20:16No.2201672
RoTP, which is just a better MoO1. MoO2 has too many nested screens.
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Anon11/03/25, 21:00No.2201817
As a child and teenager I thought MOO2 was the apex
As I got older I realised how much god-damn clicking is required. The dread of seeing a list of 100 buildings appear when a new planet is colonized.MOO1 is much more elegant with its sliders and achieves much the same outcome.
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Anon11/03/25, 21:00No.2201819
I pretty grew up on 2 so that's a personal preference. Never really liked how you could stack a gorillion+1 small shitty boats and end realities in 1 either.
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Anon11/03/25, 21:22No.2201893
Honestly I don't even remember MOO1 anymore,
MOO2 was my goto for ever and I always stalled out from the micromanaging.The best tribute I found to date is this little indie game
>Interstellar Space: Genesis
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Anon11/04/25, 20:47No.2205327
Played both MOO1 and 2 for the first time as an adult so no rose-tinted glasses for me. 1 is better than 2. More polished, more elegant. 2 becomes micromanagement hellMaster of Magic is better than both
And Age of Wonders 1 is better than Master of Magic
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Anon11/05/25, 12:03No.2207602
I only played 2 and I loved it, I really liked the tech research system and how creativity affects it, and also miniaturisation is amazing and I’m surprised Stellaris doesn’t have something similar, I liked to just focus on phasors and jam them in ships and blast my way
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Anon11/05/25, 20:53No.2209325
im quite tired of playing MOO2 since i realised the easiest way to win on impossible was population growth + charisma and then wait for the interspace council to vote, and then i just win because i have the most votes with the highest population!i didn't even have to beat orion or the demonic antarians. i hardly even have any spaceships when i win thru this method.
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Anon11/06/25, 07:59No.2210677
space empires > moo (poo)
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Anon11/08/25, 05:04No.2217196
take the master of magic pill?
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Anon11/08/25, 05:06No.2217200
i highly recommend not trying the recent remake. wouldnt mind if they put some of the new races in a version of the old game tho
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Anon11/10/25, 16:32No.2225779
What was so bad about MOO3? It came out when I was a junior in high school and I hadn't played the earlier ones. I can't say I put hundreds of hours into it (saved that for Hearts of Iron), but at this point it was like 20 years ago and I remember it getting panned.
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Anon11/10/25, 16:40No.2225813
>apparently we don't talk about 3It was actually the first MoO i played because i somehow missed the oldschool ones.
>pretty cool ship design system
>massive space battles. A bit ugly but still cool in their own way
>cool animated characters in the diplomacy menuHowever
>The economy is overly complicated to the point of being completely nonsensical and not mattering to the game anyway
>The AI is completely braindead
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Anon11/29/25, 19:26No.2269719
Nice soundtrack, though.
https://youtu.be/q21g_giYUhI?si=7QgefC_DNRXSW91f
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Anon11/30/25, 20:41No.2271815
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Anon12/02/25, 18:10No.2275284
the clicking sounds on MoO1 are so satisfying.