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So I played master of Orion 2 for the first time last night, because my brain was too fried to do anything productive.
It's pretty funny going "oh, so this is what endless space, starsector, Stellaris, and all those other games were copying. Like reading Larry Niven for the first time when you only knew the Pratchett parodies.
It turns out I was copying its leader system for a management game I'm working on without even knowing it.
It's honestly a better game than most of the modern ones. The graphics still look great, interface just needs a bit of work: dealing with the horrors of racial integration is even worse when there's no way to tell which race gets + and - what on different planet types without shipping them there and testing.
MoO II is a good game. Balance isn't perfect, but in that "most options arguably lie somewhere on the Pareto frontier, even if it's a very small portion of the surface" way. (...with the exception of some of the custom racial traits.)
I do wish the singleplayer AI had been fleshed out a little more; a pretty common complaint about games of that era.
If you're talking about the stock races, there's 13 of them and only a couple of planetary traits (high/low G, aquatic, subterranean, cyber, litho) that are mostly obvious from the racial portrait. You learn pretty quickly.
Yeah, a lot of it is learning which traits are genetic vs government and how they combine (pollution when only some races on the planet are toxic tolerant, etc.)
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