If GoG offered this game for free, it would still be too expensive. It's an excersize in frustration. It's confusing, overly complicated, NOTHING like the first two games. Go buy MOO 1 and 2 from GoG and leave this one alone. They should have spend their time fixing the multiplayer bugs in Master of Orion 2 in my opinion as that was the best in the series hands down.
Giving this game a 1 star rating is being generous.