Like every galactic 4x game, no matter how good, eventually you just wish you were playing MOO2 instead. It gets so much right, and even has some features that MOO2 does not, but it's missing some important things. The 4x genre really suffered from having the perfect game come to it. There was nothing else for it to do, nowhere for it to grow, so it died. MOO2 is a monument half-buried in shifting sands, with an inscription that reads 'look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!'.