Reply To: How does it compare?
Jan0sch: I really just picked MOO over MOO2 because I have played a lot more of it. If you gave me a bit more time with the sequel, I think I would probably like that one better.
One thing I found in ascendancy to make the late game more tolerable is to self-manage your colonies, or simply make their project “scientist takeover”.
Yes, the AI is terrible and makes horrendous choices about how to build your colonies (in my game it kept building growth bombs over and over on some planets, or filling planets with little aside from outposts and transport tubes).
But usually at that stage of the game your empire is pretty overpowered and you don’t need each and every colony tuned to perfection. Taking the micro-management off your hands a little bit allows you to focus on your fleets a bit more and makes the game progress more smoothly.
