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Deswa
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I know it is a horrible game in comparison to MoO2(so don't mention it), but I do not have that. Since I get a hankering to play this game every so often I am in need of a few mods. Are there any good mods that improve gameplay or look?
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MoO3 died horribly. I don't remember much of a mod community. Good luck to you, though.
[spoiler:edd0557059]Get MoO2.
Really. You should.[/spoiler:edd0557059]
I'd say honestly go to the MOO3 mod forums on the Atari forums website, there are tons of stickied mods and threads there from what I remember and you should be able to find some good ones... I can't remember any off-hand that improved the game enough to be woth the trouble of downloading them...
In other news, your microwave is very good at modding MoO3.
I suppose Atari would have some on their forums, but I can't remember finding any that improved the gameplay to any significant degree (and I've looked). if you have the cash, take a look at Galciv2...
As for mods I don't know of anything that recaptured the magic of Moo2.
The truth.
Tycho and I tried to play SotS a couple times, and while enjoyable, it always felt a bit flat. I don't think we ever finished a game.
CDV has another game along the 4X route coming out titled Sins of a Solar Empire which looks kinda nifty.
GalCiv is as addictive as MoO2, with the added bonus of being a lot funnier. GalCiv 2 added most of the features that the fans were asking for, such as a ship creation module, 3D graphics, the possibility to play as any of the races, and a challenging campaign mode.
GalCiv 2 also has so many options for you to play around with that you might not even need to mod it, but there are also some cool mods you can try.
Plus, GalCiv 2 is cheaper than many other PC games.
Sorry if this doesn't answer your original question, but I felt I had to point you towards one of the best 4X games I've ever played.
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Waiting for the Expansion Pack to be released, though.
See, I'm more the opposite. I love GalCiv's StarCon-style atmosphere.
It doesn't matter if the OP can't find a copy of MoO2 while Galciv2 is readily available for download from the company's website.
Ship customization is EXTREMELY robust, however combat is not tactical like MOO. As for micromanagement, I found GalCiv2 to be extremely micromanagement-heavy, but that's because I play a very starbase-focused game. (Starbase management is very poor.)
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Yup, the demo is right on this page, although I'll admit I haven't tried the demo myself.
This is one of my ship designs:
and another:
Yes, there's quite a few gameplay fixing mods. You might even call it an unofficial patch, since he does edit the EXE.
He still can't fix those fucking PD weapons though, which do not fire unless you auto-resolve weapons. (Hint: Missles are god.)
This is a good website to start at:
http://www.moo3.at/
I ended up with giant anime robots being my vehicles of choice in GalCiv2.
Thanks so much, I've been looking for that site for a while. I grabbed a few mods from there a while ago but deleted them a while back for some reason.
Speaking of missles, one of my tactics was to spawn super cheap ships that lobbed off four missles for three volleys. God that was cheap and awesome.
I'll hopefully be able to get GalCiv2 some time in the near future, damn that looks awesome.
It was not something I could get into. Nothing of the soul of the previous games was there. I had no idea what I did, and the complexity scared me of. I never bought the game. Several years passed....
Last week, I found the game for next to nothing at all at an online store. I figured, what the hell, I'm gonna order it and give it one more try. Over the years I've kept on returning the boards at atari, mainly for the awesome fan-fiction and to see how the modding efforts have progressed, and some of the mods sounded interesting.
Anyway, I installed the game and a few patches: Tropical Mod and the high resolution mod that ups the resolution to 1024*768. Started a new game with a blank mind and.... I'm actually enjoying it! With the mods, it is a whole new game. Granted, it takes a different mindset from the earlier games. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO MICRO! Also, it is a very complex game.
I just wanted to say that if you have the game, give it another chance. There has been a lot of hate for it, much of it deserved, but with the mods it is definitively enjoyable.
To KITA: So, the PD bug is still not fixed? I thought it was... oh well.
Some links:
The mods can be found here, as KITA said:
http://www.moo3.at/
This is the official MOO3 board, still some activity here and a very friendly board:
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=224
And finally, the awesome fan-fic I was talking about. Unfortunately, it has not been updated for a year and a half and the author seems to be missing in action, possibly due to some hurricane as he was living in Florida. Well worth a read if you are a fan. Very long and of better quality than many published Sci-Fi works:
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=290490
One of the teams that worked on Homeworld is making Sins of the Solar Empire. It's a 4X game, but it's closer in play to Hegemonia. Hegemonia had you conquer and colonize planets on a solar system/multiple solar system (through wormholes) scale. It lacked diplomacy, however, but it was still a great game. Sins is similar but it's on a GALAXY scale and includes diplomacy. You can conquer and colonize planets with up to ten players online, but you can also gain planets via borders just like in Galactic Civilization II.
It also looks absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait for this one.
http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/Screenshots/sinsfeature4_1280.jpg
This is the fundamental issue with MoO3. They tried to make it so that you didn't have to micromanage at all. You set broad plans for economy and production, you can designate worlds to specialize in particular fields, and just worry about moving fleets of chips around. Turns should pass by very fast.
The problem is that until you spend hours and hours with the game and know what works, you HAVE to micromanage all the queues to make sure that the general plans that you set are making the production units build the things you want. Plus there was a bug that made them build thousands of transports for no reason, and it was almost impossible to get them to build large ships.
It was an interesting idea that did not hold up in execution.
MoO2 > GalCiv2 > MoO3?
I have tried GalCiv 2, but it did not appeal to me. To much like Civ in space, and for me it did not feel like a space game at all. It just seems to lack that epic feeling somehow...
Maybe it is nostalgia, but I would put Moo2 above Galciv 2... not sure about Moo3 yet, but it is not the complete failure (after modding) that many seem to believe.
I got into SotS when it first launched, and have been sticking with it - the multiplayer makes it very worthwhile. Most of my friends who I've tried to get into it have either loved it, or abjectly hated it. The patches have added some good content to it, and there's an expansion coming out in April, so that's good stuff. It's one of the few games I've been playing consistently for the past few months, and it's only gotten better since release.
Sins of a Solar Empire looks ambitious, and I'll definitely want to check it out. The prospect of controlling a whole space-empire in real time has the multitasker in me twitching with anticipation.