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Edit: The game is released as of Christmas, 2021! I wrote a long post here describing the game and why should you play it: https://old.reddit.com/r/4Xgaming/comments/ro17o0/remnants_of_the_precursors_is_officially_released/ Here's an example of some of the new Klackon artwork: 
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RayFowler posted:But it's a good time now to let everyone know that the next alpha, Alpha 5, will be made publicly available on December 25th. This will be the last Alpha release before the game is feature-complete and we go into a beta. I'll download it, OP.
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Dec 20, 2019 00:27
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Klackons are my favorite.
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Dec 20, 2019 00:29
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Looking forward to playing a lan game with my dad.
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Dec 20, 2019 06:26
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Guide for Alpha testers, plus links to Explorminate's Let's Play https://old.reddit.com/r/rotp/comments/eew3hs/guide_to_the_remnants_of_the_precursors_alpha_test/
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Dec 24, 2019 16:28
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Grabbing this right now. I'll give it a playthrough.
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Dec 26, 2019 20:10
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Thank you , op
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Dec 26, 2019 20:49
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Glenn Quebec posted:Thank you , op No problem! Anyone else who is playing can keep up with the patches and updates on the ROTP subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/rotp
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This is great op please keep updating here too though
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Played a few hours. Playing as the humans, it feels like and plays exactly like MOO 1, but slightly prettier. Nice job.
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Jan 1, 2020 04:42
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What a Klackon city will look like as your spies are blowing it up
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Jan 8, 2020 08:30
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Here's a Space Game Junkie livestream and interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSqsoFnt1us
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Jan 28, 2020 23:03
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The public beta starts on Easter. Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rotp/comments/f8hvqf/remnants_of_the_precursors_open_beta_scheduled/
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Hey guys, it's finally here. After 5 years, Remnants of the Precursors is feature complete and is starting an open beta and is open-sourcing its code. Read the details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rotp/comments/fzqgsv/remnants_of_the_precursors_beta_1_is_now_available/
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RayFowler posted:Hey guys, it's finally here. After 5 years, Remnants of the Precursors is feature complete and is starting an open beta and is open-sourcing its code. Read the details here: Great news! I tried it out for a bit, and the game seems neat. Didn't manage to get into any wars yet, but the colonization phase felt intuitive.
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Beta 2 has been out since Christmas and I've spent the past few weeks adding a ton of player-requested enhancements and features as I prepare to finalize the game's text and send it to the translators. If you haven't played ROTP at all or at least not in a while, version 2.15 is probably a really good place to jump back in. The amount of changes made since the Beta release on Christmas is too long to type out in a post... you can read the most recent patch notes if you want that level of detail: https://old.reddit.com/r/rotp/comments/lt9hk2/beta_215_is_out_diplomacy_is_done/ The game is still free and rapidly approaching completion. It's a really addictive space 4X game, so be forewarned! Thanks and let me know what you think. You can download the game here: https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors
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this looks very cool, i love master of orion.
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Have you made any changes at all to AI's advantages? I understand you're not tinkering with the rules and I respect that but I remember playing MoO and watching computers colonize early systems that I knew for a fact were outside their ship range / colonization techs. Pet peeve. Or I'm a dork and misread their capabilities lol
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SuperKlaus posted:Have you made any changes at all to AI's advantages? I understand you're not tinkering with the rules and I respect that but I remember playing MoO and watching computers colonize early systems that I knew for a fact were outside their ship range / colonization techs. Pet peeve. Or I'm a dork and misread their capabilities lol The AI does absolutely no cheating at the "Normal" level of difficulty. The game is open-sourced and people can verify it. At easier or harder levels of difficulty, the AI gains a production bonus or penalty. But at the default level, there is no cheating.
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Related but not: I thought Java was unsafe to use or something. Was this just hearsay?
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Bloodly posted:Related but not: I thought Java was unsafe to use or something. Was this just hearsay? Java applets were unsafe because they ran in your browser, which is connected to the internet. Same thing for Flash. Java and Flash applets have not been supported by browsers for years. Rotp is not a browser applet, but a standalone application, which means you download it once and it runs on your PC just like any other application. What makes it particularly safe compared to other applications or games is that it makes zero connections to the internet, so there's absolutely no way for anything on the internet to access or exploit it. For example, anytime you are running a Steam game you are connecting your PC to external servers to do things like log in, update your game, and whatever else the game wants to do in the background. All of those actions are inherently unsafe because your games are accepting requests from external servers (i.e. from Steam or the game's servers) and if those are compromised then your PC is technically at risk. This is literally how viruses spread to your PC; by you unintentionally running an application that connects to compromised servers. I worked for years at an internet security firm which is why I made RotP is a pure standalone application. You can download it, lose your internet connection, and it will play just fine.
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Thanks for the response. Is there a Patreon or something? I'd be happy to show some $$ appreciation for a labor of love. Been playing MoM a lot lately and was thinking about MoO.
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Hey I was watching this and had it fall off my radar a while back, I had no idea it had progressed this far. Definitely going to check this out.
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SuperKlaus posted:Thanks for the response. Is there a Patreon or something? I'd be happy to show some $$ appreciation for a labor of love. Been playing MoM a lot lately and was thinking about MoO. No, but there are plans for a boxed set (manual, tech poster, etc) and a sourcebook (art/lore) being created as part of crowdfunding campaigns down the road for people who still like physical representations of their games. Lots of people have expressed interest in them. I'm literally making them for myself but I obviously will make them for anyone else who wants them.
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Not sure how many people here like "deep dives", but I've written a detailed document explaining how diplomacy works in ROTP https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vSReYtXGE5DXbJ_bUHIXVnZsQ82zBJQuoC0AhCuDsuA/edit
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version 2.16 is now out. Details: https://old.reddit.com/r/rotp/comments/m1h40v/beta_216_is_now_available/
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I was never into MOO, but a lot of people were and I'm surprised this thread doesn't get more traction. Maybe you should try making a new thread that mentions Master of Orion in the title and has an actual icon. I bet plenty of people are interested but have just missed this thread.
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K8.0 posted:I was never into MOO, but a lot of people were and I'm surprised this thread doesn't get more traction. Maybe you should try making a new thread that mentions Master of Orion in the title and has an actual icon. I bet plenty of people are interested but have just missed this thread. ROTP has turned out to be a far better game than I ever thought I was capable of making. I can't twist people's arms if they're not interested! It's free. It's really good. That's about all I can do at this point. I feel like I would be subverting forum rules if I created an additional thread to talk about it.
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RayFowler posted:ROTP has turned out to be a far better game than I ever thought I was capable of making. I can't twist people's arms if they're not interested! It's free. It's really good. That's about all I can do at this point. Going to show this to my dad tomorrow. He still plays MOO on Dosbox. Also you could always ask a mod to change this thread's name.
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habituallyred posted:Going to show this to my dad tomorrow. He still plays MOO on Dosbox. Also you could always ask a mod to change this thread's name. If your dad still plays MOO on Dosbox, then inform him that he is the target audience for this game. Dosbox no more!
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Adding "Master of Orion" to the thread title seems like a good idea. I know the Let's Play of the original Master of Orion a few years back had a lot of goons commenting, so there's presumably an audience here for it.
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FWIW I've been showing this game off to folks with the statement that it's "Free, current-gen MoO with actual QOL features and no other changes" and that gets people's attention real fast, so I think adding MoO to the thread title might be the right call as well.
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Unfortunately it seems like I can't PM the mods unless I have a platinum account here.
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Mar 10, 2021 17:13
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Then I shall PM for you EDIT it is done
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thank you!
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I've played 2 and 3, but I've never played the original. I'll have to give this a try. Thanks for the hard work. 
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RayFowler posted:Not sure how many people here like "deep dives", but I've written a detailed document explaining how diplomacy works in ROTP All here for it. I love knowing what a game does. These 90s strategy games that had manuals like Dungeons and Dragons sourcebooks explaining everything to you were so much more agreeable than modern games obfuscating everything and leaving you to guess from chicken bone patch notes what the hell actually affects anything 
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SuperKlaus posted:All here for it. I love knowing what a game does. These 90s strategy games that had manuals like Dungeons and Dragons sourcebooks explaining everything to you were so much more agreeable than modern games obfuscating everything and leaving you to guess from chicken bone patch notes what the hell actually affects anything We will be making a boxed set and printed manual for ROTP when the release is official. Tom Chick is currently working on the manual.
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Travic posted:I've played 2 and 3, but I've never played the original. I'll have to give this a try. Thanks for the hard work. MOO2 is an iconic title, but a lot of people will fight over the principle that MOO1 > MOO2. The key is that they are fundamentally different games at a strategic level, even though they share a title and setting. MOO2's strategic model was clearly inspired by Master of Magic, not MOO1. Even though I think MOO1 is a better design, I will be the first to admit that MOO2 was a far more influential title in the genre. My theory on that is because MOO3 was so poorly received that MOO2 was the standard-bearer for space 4X games for a full 15 years. Here's a video from the Explorminate website about the "Top 10 4X Games of All-Time". Even if we may disagree on rankings, they provide support for each one of the games which is why it is such a good video. They put MOO2 at #10 and MOO1 at #2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v35a8HjUnlM RayFowler fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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Thanks for doing this. It is one of my favorite games of all times. And you should really mention that it is related to Master of Orion in the title as other people have suggested.,
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