Master of Orion

This is a great game. Pros: Ability to micromanage, but no need to. In many games, once you expand enough, the micromanagement of setting 1,000 different colonies to make a certian building or such and such is a major burden. In MOO, it is easy to do that, 1,000 times, or set a policy of what you want the coloy to focus on. Even without a policy, the game engine will generall do what it feels is "best" for the moment. For example, it will automatically select to build up food and finance on a new colony. Pros: Mods - while some games are essentially just a framework and need mods to make them good, MOO is great without mods. Or, grab something like the ultimate mod, and have a go. Pros: No arbitrary and caprecious game choices. Some games will allow the player to select to research (for example) a new shield or a new rocket. This doesn't limit like that. The tech tree is more like Civilization. Pros: No need for mulitplayer. For people who want to game on their own time, this one is great. Cons: None, really. Most of the low ratings seem to be that the multi-player requires GoG Galaxy. Since I don't do multi-player for this type of game, it doesn't matter to me.

MOO is a nice remake. Different from the original, but very much the same spirit of the original first 2.

This latest version of Master of Orion is great. But, it's not perfect. Certain fixes and improvements are needed. For instance, the game treats the weapons aquired from the conquest of Orion as the best. But, when looking at each weapon's ability, Orion's weapons aren't the best. Plasma beam is better than death ray. Adamantium armor is better than Orion's armor. Automatic improvements to ship weapons and armor replace old weapons and armor with those from Orion. If Orion's weapons and armor are truly better, then make them better. It would be nice to have a Hall of Fame of top scores to give players something to shoot for. Lastly, there's a glitch when using the custom ability of omniscience. Pirates sometimes appear in systems that either have a ship occupying that system or when something is already built in that system. Even with these shortfalls, this version of Master of Orion is very entertaining. Will we see a newer version anytime soon?

Glad to see it get batter after the MoO 3 mess.

Just a fun 4X game. Plays smooth. It's certainly not the most extensive 4X. But I'm not looking for that. Really enjoying this.