/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3025998

Go for the supercomputer, and out-research everyone else. What tech you miss out on you can trade for.
As beneficial as it may seem, don't ever get into an alliance. No one but you should determine when you go to war.
If you allow the Antarans to attack, try boarding their ships(assuming you've got good skills in that area). They can jump you 2-3 tech levels in one go. Be ready to lose the troops, though...they love to self-destruct their ships.

>>3025998
>mind-control
>spies
Build 2x freighter fleet, 2x spies. Research autocannon. Build cruiser. Set the 2 spies to your nearest neighbour and send the ship over too. In early game sabotage spies have no other targets than starbase, when it blows up, mind control the planet.

You can capture 2-3 nearby civilisations this way in an early game and get the good planets. After that it's all about teching up.

>>3025998
Get crushed like a roach. Learn how to lose at games sometimes so that you get better at them. Stop asking for cheap exploits before you even start the game.

>>3026890
This, but also, build your own race. Lithovores ftw.

>>3026890
you seem angry

>>3028043
Not even.

I just don't see why OP is so afraid to actually play his game.

>>3028059
>afraid
God forbid someone ask for tips.

>>3029075
Before you even play the game? Yeah, kinda. Maybe you should ask for tips when you actually have a problem.

>>3025998
Build some missile boats or have the production stored up before t90. To avoid getting crushed.

Depending on the race spec you can pop the guardian with a skeletal fleet between t120-170, while everyone else is still puttering around.

Escape Velocity Overdrive, anyone? who am i fooling i meant Escape Velocity Nova

is orion just a more complex on the number crunching side, without any graphical space interface for real time action?

--- nonretro discreetely shoved into thread
i saw orion 3 was recently launched, anyone tried it?

>>3033495
I swear MoO1 was actually based off of Civ's engine.

MoO2 was like MoO and better in every way, except cities, I mean PLANETS, have build lists now instead of the abstraction they had in MoO1.

For my money, the best part about both games was making your own ships and controlling them in combat, and bringing a massive fuck-you fleet to destroy the enemy with, and vaporize their home planet with a space laser.

>>3033495

shit man the EV games were my jam. I wish they would do more.

>>3025998

as anyone played the reboot yet? It looks kind of lame desu

>>3033548
>massive fuck-you fleet to destroy the enemy with
miss cheesing out the ai, including the orion guardian, with 5k weaponless small ships on the later installments.

>>3033495
you mean orion 4?
orion 3 was around for quite a while, game focus shifted heavily on macromanagement.

>>3033908
Unfinished early access nonsense.

Stay away until a finished product is delivered.

Defeat enemies at a steady pace.

Never stop defeating them.

>>3030743
Is this a mod?