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I am trying the new Master of Orion game.
And I find it much less appealing that the original Master of Orion II
Part of it, certainly, is the novelty / learning curve....
However.. sometimes novelty is a welcome change in a stalling game...
No, in this case I thing they made things harder...
I might be over criticizing but it's very clear on the planetary building screen
In the original Master of Orion II you had you queue in the middle and all items on the right, everything at a glance.
In the new one, to build a new item you click on a button, which show a popup hiding the previous screen, choose some items, then close it.
if you made a mistake, you must close the window, remove the item from the queue, open the dialog again, yadaa yadaa.... such a convoluted workflow...
And these people (hopefully? obviously?) played MoO2, why unstreamlined what was an easy option?
And while it doesn't seem like much I think it turns what was a deceptively simple game into a real complicated one... 
As for the title, when I saw that, in a knee-jerk reaction I though "bloody designer" (as in a designer did the game specification and the well meaning and intelligent and actively testing developer must follow them despite that he obviously realize its foolishness!) but after calming down I think it might be more an effect of design by committee... 
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Super Lloyd wrote: the original Master of Orion II
DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE WARNING WILL ROBINSON WARNING WARNING
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hereby I christen this ship on the name Unsinkable II! 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: DOES NOT COMPUTE
I got this...
...original Master of Orion II actually replaced each little part of the original Master of Orion I until the original was completely replaced thus the Master of Orion II became the original...
Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^] 
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It's Invasion of the Masters of Orion Snatchers!
I, for one, welcome our new vegetable overlords...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just try FreeOrion, FreeOrionWiki[^]
It's a pleasure to play (when you turn off the "Space monsters" option).
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woa.. thanks for the link!
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Well I played MoO 1 until MoO 2, MoO 2 for easily 15 years and MoO 3 maybe half a game.
And I think MoO 2 is definitely the best! 
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Haha unreal!
Also, on the new Master of Orion's forum I learn about the upcoming Stellaris (9th of May), by Paradox. Looks promising...
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Seems right. No matter how many people fight over a chair, in the end it will be the cat that sits on it.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Respect the Grumpy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nicely done. Easy to set-up. Configuration straightforward. Imported all my Chrome stuff without a glitch. My initial reaction is that I like it, although haven't explored many of its features yet. Seems "fast," but can't quantify that.
Don't have a clue how its ad-blocker compares with the combination of Privacy Badger and UBlock I use in Chrome.
There's a post in "Insider News" where the new dev version is described, and linked to.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I've been using Opera for a while now and I like it. It uses Chrome's engine underneath.
There is new browser which I haven't tried yet, Vivaldi. Also uses Chrome's engine and made by some guys that were at Opera.
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Takes about a minute to run though IMO.
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I stopped using Opera when they released a phone-y version for the desktop, with a lot of the tools I used (e.g. sessions) stripped out.
It looks like a lot of them have been rebuilt as add-ins, though, so I might give it another go.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Who keeps sending you this sh*t?
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A network of friends!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You got them from facebook? 
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:shudder:
I don't go there...collective stupidity make me itch... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But you are still around for the Q&A... 
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You do get some intelligence there!
Not a lot, granted, but occasionally... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Have you considered changing your address?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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