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Originally Posted by mashxx
Didn't you find DK tedious because of the interface?
Now that you mention it, yes. It was annoying to try to do things with creatures using the hand, especially when a bunch of creatures were all on the screen at the same time. Never figured out how to easily select a specific creature among a group of like creatures, such as quickly selecting the one level 2 imp in a group of mostly level 1 imps.
Gave
Master of Orion another go after reading through the manual. Did the same setup as last time, and it was a lot easier now that I kind of had an idea of what I was doing and what was more and less useful. This time it was bears, birds, and humans. The humans immediately wanted to ally and trade, and I was down with that, then they turned on a dime at one point and told me they needed to eradicate me from the galaxy. I told them I'd like to see their ***** asses try. It did not go so well for them. They eventually came back begging for mercy but **** that, I slaughtered every last filthy human.
The bear people huffed and puffed and tried to be threatening, but they were so far behind from a technology standpoint that I almost felt bad putting them out of their misery.
The bird people didn't show up until late in the game and the reluctantly told me they had to go to war due to being allied with the humans but they didn't expect either of us to win. Their MO was to have groups of lots of little ships, some of the groups were 1000+ ships. This was the opposite of what I had done, building a few uber huge heavily armed and armored behemoths of destruction. My weapons were not great for taking out lots of little ships so I'd constantly be running away from the swarms while firing lasers behind me, pecking off 7-15 at a time. Those battles usually timed out.
Spying and stealing technology is pretty broken in the mid-game, it saves so much time, even when you're already far ahead in the tech race. Sabotaging factories seems like a total waste, and inciting rebellions is fun but not sure how useful it is.
Will likely give MoO one more go using more enemies and a larger galaxy and see what happens.