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MOO CTS is much more of a third MOO game than MOO 3 was. It's just too bad that it took two annoying elements from MOO 3 anyway, the starlanes and the real-time tactical combat. To it's credit, CTS tried to make those elements better. MoO3 tactical combat was a vicious insult wrapped in a humiliati...

Ah. I do like to play Impossible for the absolutely broken AI race builds. Fill my H-UR planets up with +1Farm, +2Ind, +1Sci Meklars? Don't mind if I do! Let's get some of those SubTer Tolerant Sakkras in for these Toxic worlds, while we're at it! Maybe stuff a few of 'em under those Meklars! Means ...

Impossible on an Advanced Start game needs only skill. From such footing I could take a game pretty reliably- less so if there's Darlocks on the other side of the galaxy that I cannot eliminate before they frame me into wars on every front. Even then, sometimes I can get and outpost network up to in...

I liked to play on Impossible and found games on anything earlier than Advanced Start to be virtually unwinnable, simply because there was no chance of getting a colony ship out before the AI had a small empire of worlds and plasma cannons. Very interesting to see how the playthrough was adapted int...

The Meklars may have evolved into beings of pure energy in MoO3, but this was coupled with a hardy helping of anti-biological racism. And curiously, this didn't preclude them from being eaten by ithkul. Always wondered how that worked. I can't place any of the Outsider race images to MoO3 leaders, b...

Late to the party, but the Historians being Darlock analogs certainly fits the bill. Doesn't let you see their true form- Darlocks were shapeshifters that wore concealing clothes or robes. Brokers technology for political clout and sows discord between other races- c'mon, it's their hat. Casually un...