Master of Orion DOS Patcher

[SDragon]

It's a shame this patch was made using Kyrub... Someone will have to reverse engineer everything from scratch to remove all this junk...

What problems do you have with Kyrub's patch?  I've already reversed engineered everything and detect the actual code changes in the hex, but everything categorized as bug fixes were seen as actual bug fixes and thus I didn't see the point of letting other people disable them.

[shallow_thought]

I dunno. As a long time user of Kyrub's patch I've rarely had problems. And you'll find plenty of reports of people playing games with the patch here on the site. And as an experienced software engineer, I've learnt to be wary of my first reaction to someone else's code. "I wouldn't have done it that way" != "it's wrong".

[WingsofMemory]

The changes in my patch are unique, and anyone will want to try them, as they all reflect the original intent of the game's creators. It's a shame this forum is practically useless to me. I was hoping for more.

How do you mean?

Do you mean that no one will try your patch?

What are the biggest changes of your patch?

[WingsofMemory]

And you seem to be a local idiot. You do understand that your opinion was not asked and was not even intended to be asked?
Edit: Although perhaps you're right. If you're that "noone", then I, unlike you, am "someone." And you, in particular, will likely never play my patch. You wouldn't be smart enough to install it.

Have you written up a guide for installing it?

I'm still curious what the changes in your patch are?

Is it mainly bug fixes, or is it mainly gameplay changes? If it's gameplay changes, could you give a run down of the most important ones and your thoughts behind them?

I love MoO and I think it's awesome that there are people like you still working on it, and I'm sorry if it's demoralizing to put a lot of effort into patching/modding it for people to not try it.

[WingsofMemory]

Your problem is that the quality of a patch no longer determines whether anyone will play it. It will simply become the standard, whether you like it or not.

Well, I've never purposely patched MoO before.

I grew up on the floppy discs, and I have it on Steam and GoG, so I assume those have bug fix patches applied to them but don't know for sure. It's been a long time I've played MoO.

I imagine it is hard to get most people to try new things, they get stuck in there ways. There will always be curious people that are interested in trying new things as well though.

Just give me a pitch on your patch, is it too fix bugs? Add new features? Make it run better on modern machines?

If your patch does something interesting or worthwhile that others don't I'd like to be able to recommend it to people that could be looking for what it does.

I'm sorry that you're having a rough go of it, it sucks to put a ton of effort into something for people to ignore it. I've been working on MoM mods for like 4 years now and when they're done, realistically only a handful of people are going to try it, but if I can blow the socks off of those couple of people it'll be worth it for me. I hope that it will be for you as well if you end up not reaching the audience that you wished too. Although, I'd rather help you reach more people than that, but I can't do that without you giving me a "sales pitch" of it so to speak.

MoO is the first game I ever beat, and I used to play it all the time as a very young kid. I am glad there are other fans out there, and impressed by the efforts of people like you to keep the MoO torch alive.

[WingsofMemory]

You shouldn't care what changes there are. I make the rules, and you girls will be glad that it's exactly that way.

This forum seems to be full of mentally ill people. Judging by your show-off, you are one of those.

[Sullla]

Attacking the other forum posters like this is not appropriate so I've given RestorationProject a 3 day ban. This is a warning: we don't tolerate attacking others like that. If it happens again, I'm issuing a perma ban. We can disagree with others without making nasty personal attacks.