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Soil enrichment increases a planet's population capacity and growth rate but can not be used on hostile planets. The advanced version increases capacity by up to 50% of its initial value and doubles the rate of population growth. Growth is increased by assigning the planet the modifier "Fertile", and
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has 10 playable races, each with a specialty. For instance, the Humans have advantages in trade and diplomacy; the
Bulrathi are the best at ground combat; the Silicoids ignore pollution and can colonize even the most hostile planets, but have slow population growth. Each race is predisposed to like
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Xenophobic Expansionist or Pacifistic Technologist. These traits guide their politics and economic management; for example militarists maintain large fleets and prioritize technologies which have military benefits, while
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population growth rates. Hostile planets are the most likely to be rich or ultra-rich in minerals. Artifact worlds contain relics of a now-vanished advanced civilization. All planets can be upgraded to Gaia class with the appropriate technologies. Planets can be upgraded in three ways:
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will safely reign supreme well into the new year". A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game four-plus stars out of five, saying that it was "a richly-textured product. Graphics coupled with high play yield a high recommendation".
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include inferior graphics and interface, simpler trade and diplomacy, undirected research, a lack of safeguards to prevent players from building more factories than are usable and the use of transports rather than colony ships to colonize new planets. One feature of
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a grade of A−, stating that "it's still conquest, but it's conquest that begins to have an interesting point to it". The reviewer wished that the game supported multiple players, but predicted that "I think
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or dislike some of the other races, and is advantaged or disadvantaged in different research fields. The other 7 races are; Alkari, Darloks, Klackons, Meklar, Mrrshan, Sakkra, and Psilon.
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divorce cases". A February 1994 survey of space war games gave
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2160:"Master of Orion: A Legend Reborn"
2037:"PC Retroview: Master of Orion II"
1984:Timberlake, Rebecca (2022-05-12).
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1880:"The 50 Best Games Ever".
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1665:January 17,
1277:pp. vi, vii
1227:Thomas, B.
1190:pp. vi-viii
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431:Development
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119:Platform(s)
109:Composer(s)
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87:Producer(s)
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2277:2022-05-27
2251:8 February
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2170:2015-06-09
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2116:"Sirian's
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2060:Geryk, B.
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967:References
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511:Star Lords
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462:Star Lords
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425:plundering
331:Technology
314:production
266:difficulty
220:MicroProse
204:colonizing
182:turn-based
139:1995 (Mac)
80:MicroProse
2544:DOS games
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1386:MobyGames
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924:Influence
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440:prototype
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337:tech tree
240:Wargaming
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1990:TheGamer
1959:GameSpot
1865:25 March
1785:29 March
1749:GameSpot
1628:"Finals"
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953:See also
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800:GameSpot
776:PC Gamer
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684:plore, e
488:freeware
449:Starlord
404:alliance
318:treasury
246:Gameplay
145:Genre(s)
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1690:GameSpy
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818:Sequels
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