For The Record -- Masters of Orion

[Cory Trese]

Masters of Orion is a 4X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion)

Star Traders RPG Is a Role Playing Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game)

I did not try to make a 4X game. When I try to make a Masters of Orion clone, you will know because it will be a 4X game.

If you care to take my side in this debate then just remember -- Star Traders RPG is NOT trying to be a 4X. It is trying to be a RPG.

Therefore, of course it is the "worst copy ever" of MOO. Yes, it is a terrible copy of Master of Orion. That is like saying that my beat up old truck is a terrible hovercraft.

Heck yes my truck is a terrible hovercraft. Worst hovercraft ever? I don't know, possibly tied with my laptop, which is also a really poor hovercraft.

[rudeboy]

"My truck is a terrible hovercraft" is my new favorite quote...

Well put, sir.

[slayernz]

I dunno, laptops skim across water a heck of a lot further than a truck does, old and beat up or not.

I would therefor rank it from worst to best as:

• Truck (regardless of condition)
  
• Laptop
  
• Rychart hat
  
• Hovercraft
  
• and of course Cadar Torp (Cadar Torps trump hovercraft).
  

Does this mean Cadar Torps are a better MOO equivalent. Hmmm ... perhaps not.

[sgtcookie]

slayernz

Best. Post. Ever.

So far.

[oldalchemist]

Mine is full of eels.

[absimiliard]

I know the vast majority of MOO games I played were VERY Cadarian in style.

(the odd-ball rarity of a "Hey, I suppose I should try diplomacy once or twice to see how it works" being the exceptions that prove the rule)

That said, who the heck compares an RPG to a TBS?

-abs

[hotpoo]

Wait, what? It's not?

Dang... I guess I can stop researching hovercraft truck tech then. Back to slaughtering my away teams.

[kremmen]

MOO was among a groundbreaking wave of games from the early 80s that set the conventions of space-themed strategy games. Of course ST shares some features with it.

If ST is trying to copy MOO, then a helicopter is a "copy" of a submarine.