I still play this game today. One tip when you load MOO1 is to hold down the ALT key then tap the Enter key to get it out of full-screen mode then hold down the Ctrl key and tap the F12 key to increase the cycles to 13000 (this is displayed at the top of the MOO1 window). Hold down the Alt key again and tap the Enter key to return to full-screen mode. I find the mouse moves so much smoother on this setting. I have played this game for many years. I can only play on Hard mode and I still lose often (bad starting planets) but when I can survive, I find the real fun in MOO1 is in playing the Darloks because of their ability to steal technology and resist spying (more useful in the end game). Try the Darlok on Hard mode, it's a whole new game. Play against 2 AI opponents. Grab as many planets as you can fast because you will be voted out if you don't, so only research planetology and propulsion at first (so you can colonize different planet types and reach out further). The AI always gangs up on you, so don't worry about it. Hard mode AI get a lot more ships than you so you need to use the Warp Dissipator trick, where you fire this Warp Dissipator off over and over until you freeze large groups of enemy ships and pick them off with missiles, torpedos or long range beam weapons. Never use auto combat. Always play the ship to ship combat yourself. That's where the real fun is in this game. Sliding the chess pieces around. As soon as the computer becomes aggressive try to build a Huge ship with Zortium armor, Auto Repair, Battle Scanner, best computer/force field/engines, Warp Dissipator, 2 space beam weapon and a rack of cheap missiles. Have fun!
This game is not like another point-and-click Telltale game I really like> Tales from the Borderlands. I purchased Hector Badge of Carnage after reading some of the reviews and I figured I would be OK with the British humour. Heck, many of my favourite shows are British! Anything Monty Python, Chef, Some Mothers Do Ave Em, Mr Bean etc... I was not OK with this type of British humour. It wasn't funny at all, which really surprised me! Tales from the Borderlands had more entertaining humour and banter then this title Quite a few times during the game I was going to Google search some of the slang terms I was hearing in the game but each time I decided 'Nahh' it won't be any funnier even if I know what that term means. I really wanted to like this and I almost finished the 3rd act but tonight It felt like a chore I didn't want to do and I thought. I don't really need to see this to the end> Uninstall, delete saved games. I think a big contributing factor to my overall dislike was the voice acting and maybe it's because I just played the most awesome game I have ever played when it comes to story and voice acting: Witcher 3 but it seemed to me that most of the choices made here for vocal talent were just possibly the worst choices you could make and too often the dialogue in the game was peppered with weird cackles of fake-as-fake can-be out of place laughter tacked on to dialogue. I am the type of player that will continue through the dialogue tree to hear all the possible dialogue there is before choosing the obvious part that closes the conversation tree so in that vein, I was really asking for it to hear this much dialogue. I just didn't want to miss anything funny. I didn't miss a thing! I'm really surprised there are so many positive reviews for this title. I won't ask for my money back since I really believe GoG and CD Projekt Red are the best things that have happened to gaming. If you enjoy puzzle games play Limbo or Inside.
