| abstract | - To start the game, you first have to choose several options and parameters which will affect gameplay. They include: Galaxy size: You can pick any number of stars from 3 to 6.9105*101337, although this will depend on your system specifications.
* Technological level: There are a number of possible technological levels you can start out at:
* Stone Age: You have stone axes, fire, wheels and sex. No houses or agriculture.
* Iron Age: You have iron axes, fire, wheels, sex, houses and agriculture. No steam engines or guns.
* Industrial Age: You have iron axes, fire, wheels, houses, sex, agriculture, steam engines and guns. No airplanes, nuclear weapons or computers.
* Technological Age: You have chainsaws, fire, wheels, sex, houses, agriculture, gasoline engines, guns, airplanes, nuclear weapons and computers. All human players are banned from this option.
* Number of players: You can pick any number of players from 2 to (6.9105*101337)-1, but you can't pick more than one less than the number of stars you start out with. Again, this will depend on your system specifications.
* Galaxy Age: Only one galaxy age is available, '10000000000 years'. The buttons for '1000000000 years' and '1030 years' are grayed out, because in the first one the entire universe is a boiling hot soup of hydrogen ions and in the last one dark energy has messed up the laws of physics and caused one plus one to equal three.
* Tactical Combat: If you leave this off, the entire game plays itself and you only get to watch. If you're playing on Windows, you don't even get to do that. Also, the game turns this off every time you start a new game, thereby forcing you to click the button every time. It does this just to be annoying.
* Antarans attack: If you turn this on, evil, genocidal aliens called antarans will constantly fly out of hyperspace and attack random star systems.
* Random events: This puts 'choose' and 'option' tags around everything, making it random. After this you will get to customize your race. You can choose any of a number of pictures, most of which are pornographic. You will also be able to choose abilities for your race. You get to choose from the following abilities:
* Aquatic: Your race will be able to play water polo.
* Subterranean: Your race will live in basements with all the lights off, surfing the Internet for porn.
* Lithovore: Your race will be able to eat rocks, and will therefore thrive on any planet made of rocks without having to grow extra food. However, this also makes it impossible to research oral sex.
* Creative: Your race is creative during sex. This will help your diplomatic efforts by 10% and increase population growth by 20%.
* Horny: Your race will be exceptionally horny, increasing population growth by 50%.
* Communist: This lets your race start out in Soviet Russia, where Master of Orion II plays YOU! Except that it already does, so this doesn't really have any effect.
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