I don't know if I want to see Mark Singer in a loin cloth anymore.

Cancer is a cunt.

Or as the very shady person on The Witcher asked: "Why do pricks go into cunts?!?"

I've played both games.

Outpost 1.x seemed great at first glance (and when I say this I mean back in the day), but quickly turned into a broken mess once I started playing it.

Outpost 2 was and still is one of my favorite games. I've spent a lot of hours playing it and I've finished both Eden and Plymouth campaigns, read the stories and so on. I'd do it all over again if it showed up on GOG, which I am hoping will actually happen one day. It's a shame they never added a random map generator to it, but for a free-play sandbox and/or skirmish you could find custom maps here and there in the past, though I don't know if now that's still the case.

I can definitely recommend Outpost 2 if you're into colony sims and/or strategy games in general. This one is particularly special since it has an epic saga vibe that I think inspired Sid Meier's Alpha Century in terms of how the setting and story is presented to the player.

Sex, baby. Let's talk about you and me. Not really. :P

Someone with the name "Deathstroke" wanting to talk about sex will scare off a lot of people... especially males.

Because it lures you in with promise of riches :P. As you said, in the initial version at least, some features which were covered in the manual were actually not implemented in the game, some structures you built lacked any actual function in the game and so on.

It could have been great, but it felt like a game which was abandoned half-way though development but still released as a last ditch effort to get back some of the cash that went into coding it. Still, it is a quasi-functional planet settling & colony management game. The early game is quite good, but once you get beyond that, well...

P.S.: I would still buy it if it ever gets released here, just for the fun of it - to remember how bad it was :).

I kind of want to play Millenium 2.2 and Deuteros now :-/