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This is not cheesy at all. You are deploying very high technoloy and you obviously neutralized the technology level of the Guardian with it. This is completely thematic and should not be considered "cheese"!

Please give money to the "Friends of the Guardian" fund, to stop this :D

What are the conditions? Is it a hard turn limit, or one that starts when one side can't fight back?

LOL - this is hilarious. I always wondered if there was a term limit for combat - 50 turns seems appropriate.

chester cheetah doing a drumsolo cheesy ha but stasis fields are nearly end game tech as it is

i once cheesed the entire Antares fight with a single battleship using Stasis Field and a single heavy Death Ray. I had to put 8 separate Stasis Fields though to hit all the Antares ships in a single turn. specials:: battle pods, phasing cloak, auto repair unit (to make up for reflection field rebounds)

That is, breathtakingly, cheesy.

Pretty expensive to get Stasis Field, but this is interesting to know

you may forgot phase cloak & time warp facilitator!

How did you have xenotrium armor with the guardian still around?

I remind myself of the challenge to complete the game without building a single offensive ship :)

I've been playing MOO2 for over 20 years, and I usually come back to it on winter evenings. I was here at 2:15 ))

okay but how do you get the buildings afterwards? there's no option to use a troop transport once the population of the enemy planet is dead.

Trilar is probably in the crappiest place ever to start the game.

Is 1.50 Normal/Improved meant to be more difficult? Because playing patch .24 on Average difficulty I got some really weird results. Snowballing AIs that wiped out the galaxy except me, AIs were spying like crazy but my spies were completely useless even as the Darloks, multiple / unending space worm attacks that happened over and over. Also not sure if you care but that weird banding you're getting in the game is caused by DOSBox's scaler, looks like TV2x, but those scalers need to work on a resolution that are a multiple of the original's vertical resolution. Under the SDL section where it says fullscreen set it to something like 1920x1200 or 1600x1200. I'm on a 2K monitor and I set it to 2560x1400 with Aspect set to true and you get a nice consistent scanline effect and no banding.

1:24 - Ok, they have additional bonuses. That partly answers my question from the first video. But you should still be 25% better and not just 15%. Maybe the remaining discrepancy is their leader bonus...

29:19 - Why do the humans only have 15% less beam defence (same drive and ship type as far as I can see)? Aren't you supposed to have +50 with the Alkaris?

20:48 - 20-30 minutes feels about right.

Nice to see a game with the basic race design. I think I almost never played with the basic races because creating custom races was so interesting.

When the other player went for robominers quickly in an earlier video, I thought this could get interesting, but the fleet design here reveals it's a rather inexperienced human player. Would be interesting to see a match with another real expert some time.

Hey what is that hotkey,that You enter, when u arrive a new Planet and automaticly set up a building order?

It's a minor point, but shouldn't the 2nd disruptor attack do 468 damage instead of 432? Heavy mount disruptor: 60 minus Class V shield 55 minus hard shields 52 times 3 (AF) + 50% (High-energy focus) x 2 (structural analyzer) --> 52 x3 x1.5 x2 = 432

Creative for 8 is still too cheap imho (it was only 6 in the original game). It's still a bit overpowered. I would give it 10 points. Or ideally, would mod the game as follows: Every race can research every tech, but has to pay the research points twice if they wish to research two techs in one category. That would remove hard choices like missile base vs. automated factories. Then, Creative could be lowered to 4 or 5 points.

Why are you buying the ships when they only have 1 turn to build?

Cybernetic...damn. 😉

Could you do it with one or two less if they had fast missile racks? You could also kill off the shield with self-destruct and a subspace teleporter in turn 1, not sure if that would help, but the other EMG missiles could also pass the shields in turn 1, though there would probably have to be some more rounds of miniaturization in order to still fit 2 merculite MV missiles on each ships.

The unpopular, but seemingly interesting idea: play with the _bad_ bonus perks Spying, stealthy ships, lucky, charismatic, fantastic traders

Love this :D

451 I'm counting

1 more that you never can use. Either you've already won the game they're just playing for the hell of it, or You have technology that you can no longer build because you're being destroyed

I just like watching people pick their custom race picks. I find it fascinating.

Wouldn't it make sense to add CB-4 to the comparison?

33:27 "This is looking poor" = lol :). I am enjoying your "turtle" combat!

Madness and I love it!

Always pleasure to see you still at game :))

Eelien Invaders

A long time ago, I played a game (low difficulty) in a huge galaxy (my race was tele-omni-crea that how i was playing at this time) : The first random event was a eel, for the sakkra (hehe :P) their didn't destry it and later in the game there was a dozen systems blockaded by eels :D

What armor are those Eels wearing?

Eels having babies.

Weapons other than MIRV missiles are pretty lousy against monsters huh

Nah, I'm not gonna let you know the I'm here at 2:15:00.

how do you get to such high tech and number of ships ? my games (vanilla) always end well before with only a dozen ships or so in battles

3:05 - Thanks for fixing the pop graph issue.

Rocco - really fun watching your "thinking process" for playing MOO2. I'm learning a lot here while also playing a few 1.50 games. Thanks!

Informative.

Back in the olden days when people used to organise tournaments and have a league website, someone beat some of the best players in the world on a tiny 8 player multiplayer game using a transdimensional telepathic race like this. They built an empty cruiser and every other player scrapped their star base, so they just flew around mind controlling them.

Love doing an android rush! I can't bring myself to do tolerant or production race since the androids are tolerant and workers, and I like to go low g since they are immune to gravity too and most of our research pop is on the homeworld. Usually takes me to over turn 100 when starting on pre warp, will have to try regular start. Low g means you can't go repulsive but that can be good as you can trade for some techs and use research treaties. The AI will also trade you some very high tech for android worker even though I don't think they build them. Charismatic can be good to get more leaders to speed things up a bit if you get lucky. In one game I got the one who gives terraforming and the one who gives galactic unification. Huge bonus!

Is this cheaper and faster than taking down the shields by self destructing two cruisers and then firing the emg missiles point blank?