OT: Stupid Stars! - Page 2

LordAxel · #11 April 30th, 2006, 09:51 PM

Victory is mine on two fronts. A) My laptop wasnt broken
B) success in finding a code for my stars! to work and the manual now has a use(When my pbw games are slowed down)

narf poit chez BOOM · #12 May 1st, 2006, 04:08 AM

My dad's favorite game is stars. Which is kinda funny, since at the time I played it a lot. I had to convince him that a game with low graphics could be fun...

Three months later, he's playing it every day and I've moved onto something else.

StarShadow · #13 May 4th, 2006, 05:22 PM

STARS! was my first space-based TBS, I still fire it up from time to time.

Artaud · #14 May 4th, 2006, 09:09 PM

There was supposed to be an updated version called Stars Supernova. I visited the website often when I was in my last job, where I had high speed net access.

There were screen shots and feature lists, but apparently the developer was not able to find a publisher. A real pity. I played and played and played that game. I used to print out maps of my empire and hang them up in my cubicle at work.

Randallw · #15 May 4th, 2006, 09:44 PM

Yes indeed Stars! was my first game of this type. I also kept track on Supernova, but when it was clear it wasn't going to be released I looked around for something else and found SE4.

narf poit chez BOOM · #16 May 4th, 2006, 10:55 PM

Wasn't their fault it didn't get published. I know why, but I don't want to be spitefull.

Slynky · #17 May 5th, 2006, 09:34 AM

I think I used to play Stars. Wasn't that the one you "flung packets" in? Or something?

Ed Kolis · #18 May 5th, 2006, 02:11 PM

Yes, I loved those mass drivers... especially when I used them for bombardment of enemy planets when I had too many minerals on my hands!

Perhaps with SE5's scripting engine we could fit mass drivers into the intel system... "Our planet Feznik V has been hit by something which was initially considered a rogue asteroid, killing 65M people and destroying 2 facilities, but upon further analysis seems to have come from the vicinity of the Tudran system." Then to fire these mass packets, you'd need a mass driver component installed in a system...

Louist · #19 May 13th, 2006, 07:45 PM

Of course, had Feznik had a mass driver facility or station in the first place, you would have caught the packet and been a little richer. That'll teach those Feznikians to be proactive!

I seriously miss Stars! Been too long since I played the demo (Never could find the full version anywhere, and now I can't even find a copy of the shareware....) Oh well!