Replying to Star Lords

I don't know if I'd try this game before Moo1. It's pretty much exactly the same, but with less polish.

The interface isn't really difficult, but important screens like technology/research are buried in an extra layer of the interface, which is faintly annoying. You're not told what precisely your scientists are working on at any given moment. You know what the tech fields broadly cover, you can change the spending in each one, but you don't know what's next on the list until you get it.

Colonisation is actually easier than in Moo1. You don't built colony ships but simply use a "transport" command to move people from colonies to new planets. Moo1 also has this command but it only works on already-settled planets. The difference means you can expand faster and concentrate more on building military ships in the early game.

Like Moo1, your planets have a set of sliders to let you set expenditure military, research, industrial, ecology etc. However these sliders don't autoadjust like they do in Moo1, where all you really needed to do was turn up the shipbuilding and defense sliders now and then. Here you've got to keep checking back every so often. Also they forgot to put arrows on the ends of the silders, which can make adjusting them a little ticklish, especially if you just want to reset something to zero.

The shipbuilding screen is nice and easy to use, and doesn't make you constantly open/close extra windows with submenus the way the Moo1 one does. The ship icons are nothing to get excited about, but they're generally better than the ones in Moo1. They don't seem to be grouped into sets by player colour though, which might mean that your "Useless"-class ships might be using the same graphic as enemy ship "Hopeless"

The default view is a closeup of a small portion of the galaxy map which can be scrolled about by rightclicking, but unlike Moo1 you can't see the whole galaxy map at once except when the AIs are taking their turns. And then it goes glitchy.

Generally, I'd try Moo1 first. This game is OK but the final product was just a little bit easier to use.

No problem. What about the game, though? Is it worth trying even if you don't normally play games like that?

...achh, unwitting threadnomancy, my soul is forfeit.

I'm afraid my brain had sort of turned into a red mist by the time I'd finished page 1, and wasn't up to noticing such details.

Fair enough. You did notice that "the most pointless argument you've read on the net all week" is actually nearly six months old, though, didn't you?

Congrats guys, this is the most pointless argument I've read on the net all week.

Anyway, it's not a prequel but a precursor. A prequel is something made AFTER another work, but set BEFORE. Regardless of where or when this game is set, this game was made before Moo1 and therefore can't be a prequel.  This is obvious from the definitions that were quoted in the thread itself.

I don't care what word you use to describe it, but in the context of this argument I'm finding it weird you all missed this.

MdaG, on Oct 8 2005, 12:25 PM, said:

id learn to bend time if i didnt have the time to play

Daka But I bet many don't...

DakaSha, on Oct 8 2005, 12:55 AM, said:

Who has time to play games 12h a day ?  

I'm happy if I get 2h  

i never had any problems with any of the games micromanagment... even Moo3. but mabye im just crazy and should stop playing for 12 hours a day

a1s, on Oct 6 2005, 08:16 AM, said:

Actually, that's me that said that part hehe, not LordHart, and I only put it in quotes because it isn't something that is 100% true, or set in stone somewhere, I quoted it to show that it was me that said it, and I didn't know if it was true or not.   Misuse of written grammer im sure, so sorry for the miscommunication. I'll use qoutes properly next time and say where they're from.

(P.S. Im not implying a continuance of this argument, just correcting a misquote on a1s's part. No harm done, no offence taken, and I know it wasn't on purpose or anything   )

About the game, to correct the path (No need to respond to my above statement. Again, just clarifying a misquote, and answering his question anyways heh)

I thought the game was pretty good. The page says it has a less intuitive micromangement system, but I never really noticed that. I couldn't fully grasp MOO or MOO2 (Or MOO3 for that matter...)'s micromanagement, but Star Lords was fun and I got the hang of it without any sort of manual. I guess to each his own?