defaultluser
[H]F Junkie
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I have loved Master of Orion since the day it was released. And I have never loved a game as much since, even the himpressive sequel MOO2. After awhile I just got bored wit the fixed tech tree of MOO2!
I find fixed tech trees boring. I just do the same old shit over and over, in the exact same order every time I play. BORING. Fixed tech trees are for Real Time Strategy games, where everyone needs to have the same tree and decide fast!
I find that the one thing that keeps me coming back to Master of Orion is the random tech tree. We're not just talking somebody lazily rolling dice here: there are purposeful gaps in almost every race's tech tree, either forcing you to exchange, invade, or work around it by researching other things! In other words, forcing you to craft the best path based on what you're stuck with makes for a more exciting game! And not knowing what you have coming down the pipe makes every research choice a gamble.
After recently trying out Endless Space and quickly getting bored (just a MOO2 clone with more system-centric build queue), Finally realized why play MOO so incessantly. So I thought I might ask people before wasting any more of my time
Any recommendations for 4x games with random tech trees, or is MOO going to forever be my favorite candy? I prefer space games, but given how thin the results of my google search have been, I'll take anything
I have loved Master of Orion since the day it was released. And I have never loved a game as much since, even the himpressive sequel MOO2. After awhile I just got bored wit the fixed tech tree of MOO2!
I find fixed tech trees boring. I just do the same old shit over and over, in the exact same order every time I play. BORING. Fixed tech trees are for Real Time Strategy games, where everyone needs to have the same tree and decide fast!
I find that the one thing that keeps me coming back to Master of Orion is the random tech tree. We're not just talking somebody lazily rolling dice here: there are purposeful gaps in almost every race's tech tree, either forcing you to exchange, invade, or work around it by researching other things! In other words, forcing you to craft the best path based on what you're stuck with makes for a more exciting game! And not knowing what you have coming down the pipe makes every research choice a gamble.
After recently trying out Endless Space and quickly getting bored (just a MOO2 clone with more system-centric build queue), Finally realized why play MOO so incessantly. So I thought I might ask people before wasting any more of my time
Any recommendations for 4x games with random tech trees, or is MOO going to forever be my favorite candy? I prefer space games, but given how thin the results of my google search have been, I'll take anything
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