Lets Play - Master of Orion III

[FarAway Sooner]

FWIW, Distant Worlds: Universe uses the same species/race subdivision.  Different species types have different diplomatic reactions to other species types, which makes for interesting "factions" in the game.

[Jarhead0331]

FWIW, Distant Worlds: Universe uses the same species/race subdivision.  Different species types have different diplomatic reactions to other species types, which makes for interesting "factions" in the game.

That's true, but MOO did it first, and it deserves credit for that. It's a really innovative concept.

[Jarhead0331]

Part 2...

I figure I'll make these in 50 turn packs. That seems long enough for a good amount of events to happen, while keeping it short enough so each video is not too long. Still in the early part of the game here, just expanding, researching and building infrastructure.

[jamus34]

Not to threadjack or anything but did anyone ever game MOO? I figured out at a very young age that if I took the psilons and dumped a ton of money into weapons research I could get graviton beams pretty quick.
After that I'd have to get some construction levels to reduce size but I could fit the gravitons into fighters. If I could do that and build up my fleet quickly enough it was usually game over.
Graviton beams used right were ridiculously overpowered when used right due to the carry over damage

[W8taminute]

Nice 2nd video.  You really are doing a great job explaining gameflow for this game.  Definitely going to pay attention to this series. 

[Jarhead0331]

Thanks, W8. Glad a few people are interested in following this.

[PAK]

Thank You for Your effort Jarhead. I'm quite critical of the MoO3 but You managed to stir my interest in this game once again. I think I will try it once more. You play with Tropical mod, yes?

[PAK]

BTW, is patching the MoO3 with the patch version 1.2.5 required in case of the GOG version?

[Anguille]

BTW, is patching the MoO3 with the patch version 1.2.5 is required in case of the GOG version?

No. GOG's edition is already patched to 1.2.5.  ;)

[Ian C]

I just reinstalled this on my new pc with the GOG version and latest Tropical and on their site it has a step by step install here http://www.gog.com/forum/master_of_orion_series/tutorial_master_of_orion_3_tropical_mod_patched_confirmed_windows_7_x64/page1, which specifically says use the GOG .exe, not the one in the Tropical mod. However, when you do this the Bhruic MMO3 patcher only patches some of the mods into the game, some of them failing with 'code is not present'. What gives?

[Jarhead0331]

Interesting. I don't think I'm experiencing that problem. Is that an error message you are getting in a pop-up, or is it just a line of text from within the patcher?

[Jarhead0331]

Thank You for Your effort Jarhead. I'm quite critical of the MoO3 but You managed to stir my interest in this game once again. I think I will try it once more. You play with Tropical mod, yes?

Nice! Glad you're giving it another shot. Yes, I use the tropical mod. I find it offers the most complete experience of the three major moo modding efforts. It not only contains all of the critical patches which are necessary to make the game playable, but has the most additional content, such as expanded tech trees, etc.

Let us know how you like it.

[Ian C]

Interesting. I don't think I'm experiencing that problem. Is that an error message you are getting in a pop-up, or is it just a line of text from within the patcher?

Popup.

[PAK]

I will, so far I was playing with vanilla and strawberry. From Your movies I see there are differences, for example You started without any ship construction and with only lancer hull available. IIRC in vanilla and strawberry at the start You have lancer, cutter and frigate available with corresponding shipbuilding infrastructure.
The main problem with MoO3 is fighting the urge to control everything, as the player is accustomed by other titles. The game was clearly not designed with micromanagement in mind, both in terms of interface layout and general idea. My failures with MoO3 stemmed from the fact that I could not stop myself from micromanaging my empire, lets see what happens if I will take Your path.  8)

[Ian C]

Ok, I'm an idiot. I forgot to press this to patch the main .exe: