They had a forum where they told fans about developments, and the fans could offer feedback. They wrecked the graphics, took away the aliens people liked, transformed a simple and easy-to-use combat interface into something they stole from Imperium Galactica and screwed up, made a diplomacy interface AI that bordered on schizophrenic, and failed to put in any controls to prevent someone from building 200 colony ships and electing themselves president of the universe by turn 100.Vympel wrote:Can you elaborate? I just figured MoO3 sucked ass, and never bought it.Stark wrote:MoO3 was SO funny. You'd think looking at user-sensitive mods like CounterStrike (*still* stuck in a neverending dev cycle) would make people wary of simply accepting any and all nutbar ideas and whiny complaints from users. It did teach us one thing though: 4X players are as retarded as everyone else.
MOO3 is the only time I was ever glad I lost a game by reformatting my computer.
). The research panel was just plain malicious, changing locked settings and then not allowing them to be reset. It was impossible to refit ships, so once you learned a couple new technologies, your entire fleet was obsolete and had to be replaced. Not rebuilt, replaced. The economics were borked six ways from Sunday. Leaders could be assassinated by foreign governments when no foreign governments had been found yet. The Antarans would vote against just about anything, including attempts to praise them (which would raise their reputation with everyone). I swear there was coding to place the parasites as the closest race to the player. The races from 2 were about half gone, although small enclaves could be found as indigs useable as military units (just put them in the damn game as full races and be done with it). Space combat was hideously one-sided, particularly since point defense weapons didn't work.
