Only game where I can play as space commies bringing political power to workers everywhere. Stop by the discord and chat about Paradox games if y'all ever get a chance.
I love it when the worker advisor calls the space amoebas reactionaries.
I'm hoping to get a Paradox gaming comm made when comms open up to creation by the public.
Nah just a separate space to set up multiplayer games of Paradox games.
Who knew leftist gamers would be into Alt History games that don't potray leftist as heartless monsters?
I wish I were better at kaiserreich. I managed to take over the US as CSA but then my militia units all got disbanded. I started a war to re-take New England and got crushed.
Yeah you have to watch out for Canada and always remember once the 2ndCW ends all militia is disbanded automatically.
Canada taking New England is always shit for CSA.
I found it really dull. Six hours into the first game I'd made approximately one decision of any importance. I could've played an entire game of MOO in that time.
Love the themes and ideas in the game, but it's pretty disappointing to see these huge important ideas amount to yet another +10% bonus in a soup of +10% bonuses.
What would you define as the midgame, and what makes it more fun?
edit: Asking mostly so I know whether to continue.
Master Of Orion (1993)! Not to be confused with the 2016 remake, which is a much more typical 4X game.
The big things I like about MOO (and these are very typical things to like about it):
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Simple colony management. You use sliders to allocate spending. The sliders are a little jank, but they're a lot less time-consuming than the list of buildings style that you'd see in something like Civ or Stellaris. This is most of why the game takes less time than others.
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Randomized tech tree. I suppose Stellaris has one too! But it's a very meaningful part of MOO, where every empire gets a different tree every game, and you have to work around the gaps.
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Passive-aggressive asshole AIs. Undeclared border wars, undeclared cold wars, major invasions because you look like an easy target, that sort of thing. Conversely, this is a game where a diplomatic victory is the normal way to win.
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It's the most "expansive" space 4x, with the worst DLC practices for a game ever. It's not very deep and has a lot of fatal flaws but it's fun with friends (which every game is fun with friends, really). Personally, I prefer Endless Space 2 but you don't have custom empires and whatnot. Guess I just gotta pray that Humankind is based and successful.
It’s no Distant Worlds or Aurora 4X, but it serves well enough as casual space EUIV.
I have the base game but I'm having trouble getting into it. Any advice/videos I could watch to figure it out?
