Impossible to win.

[ParentExpress]

You have already lost if you have bought this game so...

[Overlord]

..no.

[Carody]

With that attitude you will always lose. A good game isn't one that you can beat all the time, but provide you with a different game play everytime and challenge you to learn, adapt, and grow.

[Darelius]

Originally posted by flatulentpancake:

You have already lost if you have bought this game so...

LOL

But i know this game and have it since years - IF Steam didnt fix the worst problem, he is right - the Money-bug - if it still exist, you cannot play a "long" game, you can only win, when you play fast...

The Money bug is the problem, that at 2G money it changes tio -2G money and therefore you loose automatically, even, if you normally have no problems and should win...

[wpmaura]

WHAT MONEY BUG

[Carody]

there is a mod/patch that fixes the money bug.

[Carody]

Originally posted by Carody:

there is a mod/patch that fixes the money bug.

here is the website. lots of mods and patches to chose from to fix the game for you. follow the instructions.

http://www.lcs-hamburg.de/Bhruic/bhruic.dyndns.org/patcher/index.php.htm

good luck

[Darelius]

Originally posted by Carody:

there is a mod/patch that fixes the money bug.

I tested the "money-bug-patches, but no one really solved the problem for me in the MOO3-Versions i had before ;)
But maybe i try it one day again ;)


...DX

[Jambie Lionheart]

Has anyone tested, to see whether or not these mods will work with the current steam version of Moo3?

[[Ghetto]Two Shoe$]

MoO3 is not a game you learn to play with one or two attempts. MoO3 designers did not embed into their construct a dumbing down mechanism that has become all too pervasive in the modern industry.

In order to play MoO3 well you have to experiment, and discover, through trial and error and discern what works and what doesn't work.

Infact it requires experience, to actually be played well.

That is not something that this modern age of "gamers" has a large percentage of, because it requres being challenged to the fringe of your ability to think critically.

For those of us that relish that, and the thousands of games yet to be played of MoO3 on "impossible" setting, each finished match is its own reward.

The AI knows how to cheat just enough to keep you struggling. And when you show the AI you know what you are doing, you are in for a rough ride all the way to the end.

[Jambie Lionheart]

Someone really needs to sticky the mod website, don't we have an admin anywhere that can do it? This game NEEEDS the mods.

[Centauri2991]

funny that, i remember completing this years ago with expidetions into the antaran dark sector. Although I still maintain the best part of its game was the manual. Phenomenal backstory which was sadly not fully taken advantage of by the game.

[Catinthehat]

Originally posted by GhettoTwo Shoe$:

A whole lot of insane gibberish

Bit of a shame you don't seem to have played MoO3 at all. It's a badly balanced (nothing can really win against mass fighters/missiles except more mass fighters/missiles as the lightning field generator was turned into a beam weapon instead of an AoE field), buggy (or maybe reseach topics going from taking 6 turns to be done to takng 150,000 suddenly is a feature?) and tedious micromanaging game (you can let the AI do it but it won't be as good as if you bothered to fiddle with hundreds of DEA zones every 10 turns).

Also the AI sucks, I played it last year and one of the AIs declared war on me and offered me an upgraded trade deal in the same turn. Also also, the Harvesters. Great, I sure do love the race I created being eaten by the harvesters and the only thing I can do about it is to give the planet to other empire so I can genocide every living thing there and start again. Also times 3, it sucks that darloks, mrrshan ect. were all but killed off.

It's an awful game and you should feel bad for saying it isn't.

[AsidMjolnir]

I've had long games that I won. And it's a broken game, yeah, but i think it's better than the newest Master of Orion.

[slatingsangan]

i always win if i play with elections or all five techs enabled if not i just get stellar converters and i guess i would win if i didn't get bored

[Darelius]

I dont play with win option to discover 5 X, instead i want to research nearly all.
But always my empire got too big.
I have the problem of too much income, which change to extreme amount of negative income due to the money bug and loose the game always FAR before i evengot the stellar converter.
I wanted to research and build and use it once, but all tried ended in "bankrupt" loss, because i had too much money income, which went to negative mones :(