synthetictruism wrote:eharper256 wrote:For me:
I was more interested in completing Millenium 2.2
Millenium 2.2 is easily one of my favourite games! Completed it so many times.
Never really got on with the sequel, Deuteros, though...
Wow, another Millenium player, that's rare. I've also completed it at least a dozen times. Used to have a guide on my Geocities Site, actually, before all of those were killed off.
Did a speed playthrough a few months back, actually (completed in just over 1 1/2 game years). I'm sure more time could have been shaved off; but most of that was waiting for Chronium to be mined from Triton and be sent back via Carrack, since I blatted the Martians with the Fleet Carrier by Christmas.
Deuteros is alright initially, but then you basically have to abuse an exploit with half-completed orbital factories to even stand a chance of not dying to the Methanoids, which sucks. (since you need to be able to build at least 150 odd drones to survive your first IOS vs. IOS battle, you can't build them before they declare war, and they require small quantities of a rare mineral that is only available from asteroids or Methanoids Trade). It becomes marginally interesting again when you first get SCG's, then the rest of the game is all the same. Shame really. Ironically, the game becomes more fun if you use the Pompey Pirates trainer for immortal battle drones.