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Ed Kolis
March 27th, 2003, 09:44 PM
Greetings Hunam! How do you wish to torture me today? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

You can't help but love the wacky races of the Star Control universe, so here's your chance to play as one of them in an SE4 game!

This game is no longer finite resources, as that setting doesn't seem to be very popular.

As would be usual with my games were I to host more of them, just about any game setting is open to change should a majority of players agree on a decision!

Roleplaying is encouraged in this game, it's half the fun of multiplayer SE4!

Note that this is a zero racial points game - it's more interesting when you have to sacrifice something to get that Organic Manipulation trait. Min/maxing is allowed only if it makes sense for your race (e.g. -50 Cunning is OK for Spathi but probably not for Melnorme!)

And it goes without saying that everyone has to pick a Star Control race for this game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Not that you have to know everything there is to know about the Star Control universe - hey, I just found The Ur-Quan Masters (sc2.sourceforge.net) recently and I've only met about a half a dozen races!

Starting resources: 100000
Starting planets: 1
Home planet value: Good
Score display: Own
Technology level: Medium
Racial points: 0, count 'em, Zero
Quadrant type: Midlife
Quadrant size: Small if <6 players, Medium if 6-12 players, Large if >12 players
Event frequency: High
Event severity: High (those supernovas are no fun)
Technology cost: High
Victory conditions: None set in-game; we can decide on our own when the game is over
Maximum units: The max
Maximum ships: The max
Computer players: None
Computer difficulty: N/A
Computer player bonus: N/A
Neutral empires: None
Other game settings:
All Warp Points Connected
Warp Points Located Anywhere in System
Finite Resources
All Player Planets the Same Size
Empires Evenly Distributed Throughout Quadrant
No Tactical Combat (duh)
Players Can See Complete Tech Tree (you can look at the data files anyway)
Allow Gifts/Tributes (NOTE: this does NOT mean you can gift away your entire empire to your friend or any of the other sneaky gift tricks! You're on your honor.)
Allow Technology Gifts/Tributes/Trades
Allow Surrender (But only to the empire that defeated you)
Allow Intelligence
Using latest Version of FQM Gold, whatever that is

Note: If anyone wants to use a mod, feel free to ask - I'm kind of partial to Devnull at the moment, though the latest Version doesn't seem to be installed on PBW with SE4 1.84 at the moment... how DO they keep all those installations up anyway, must be gigabytes! (Then again they don't really have much use for the graphics files...)

[ May 25, 2003, 01:44: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

Ed Kolis
March 31st, 2003, 10:15 PM
(bump)
What, nobody likes Star Control? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Ed Kolis
April 8th, 2003, 05:15 AM
All right, if I don't hear from anyone soon I'm just going to have to cancel the game... no sense cluttering up the PBW server, or my games list...

(Never seen a turnout THIS low before... usually someone at least Posts to the thread as to why they're not interested! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif )

TerranC
April 8th, 2003, 05:23 AM
Be patient Grasshopper. If you build it, they will come.

Hugh Manatee
April 8th, 2003, 08:43 AM
Switch Finite resorces off start us with medium tech and use Fyron's quadrant mod and we can talk....

narf poit chez BOOM
April 8th, 2003, 10:17 AM
star control is a good game. star control mod?

Ed Kolis
April 8th, 2003, 07:40 PM
No, no star control mod... just thought it might be fun for everyone to roleplay a Star Control race because they're so funny http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

No finite resources, medium tech, and FQM? OK, can do that...

edit: well, no WONDER no one joined... I had max players set on 1! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ April 08, 2003, 18:43: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

henk brouwer
April 8th, 2003, 09:19 PM
Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
star control is a good game. star control mod?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No SC2 mod yet, but some people are working on one:

http://www.star-control.com/xr/SCSE4

I thought about joining the starcontrol pbw game, but I haven't played pbw before and I prefer starting pbw with a normal game.

Hugh Manatee
April 9th, 2003, 05:12 AM
Hmm, it seems I have missed something, I thought "star controll" was a clever name for the game, I didn't see the roleplaying part... I would be willing to give it a shot, where can I find out more about this "star control"? Is it another game or something?

Suicide Junkie
April 9th, 2003, 05:16 AM
You can learn all about it here:

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
(Open source remake of StarControl 2; download and play)

http://uqm.stack.nl/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl#general_cat
(Forums for same)

Also, I forget where I got it from (it was linked from some thread in the forum above), but this manual should help lots:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/miscellaneous/uqm%20manual.pdf

[ April 09, 2003, 04:46: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Ed Kolis
May 25th, 2003, 02:43 AM
(bump)
Only 2 players so far, lots of empty slots!

tesco samoa
May 25th, 2003, 07:01 AM
i have the poster of the map up in my basement....

Loved that game.....

narf poit chez BOOM
May 25th, 2003, 07:30 AM
my Favorites where the shapeshifing one and the one that zipped around with no regard for physics and the ones that liked to run, because they had missiles. and they could go fast. no, i can't remember the race names http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ May 25, 2003, 06:33: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Ed Kolis
June 19th, 2003, 01:20 AM
Anyone else want to join? We only have 2 players so far http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif ... and one of them's me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

tesco samoa
June 19th, 2003, 05:51 PM
ED... Run some of these cool ideas again in the fall.... Say SEPT/October time frame.... I will join up then...

AeoN2
July 4th, 2003, 03:24 PM
I want in!

Sign me up for the Mmrnmhrm, or maybe the Utwig http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Gotta love star control

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AeoN2

Ed Kolis
July 5th, 2003, 12:00 AM
At the rate it's going, this game will probably still be looking for players in the fall, so you don't have much to worry about, Tesco http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Ed Kolis
September 14th, 2003, 03:48 AM
(bump)

I almost gave this game up for dead, but now there are 5 players including myself (assuming nobody signed up and forgot about the game) and there's even a little pregame roleplay getting started in the game forum, so now's your chance http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

(Told ya, Tesco http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

Ed Kolis
October 20th, 2003, 02:11 PM
(bump)
OK, we have enough players to get started, so if anyone else (Tesco?) wants to join, now's your chance!

tesco samoa
October 20th, 2003, 04:09 PM
Ed I would like to play but I will pass so you can get the game going http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Saber Cherry
October 20th, 2003, 08:23 PM
Originally posted by Hugh Manatee:
Hmm, it seems I have missed something, I thought "star controll" was a clever name for the game, I didn't see the roleplaying part... I would be willing to give it a shot, where can I find out more about this "star control"? Is it another game or something? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Star Control II is the best adventure RPG ever! It also has some of the best humor and music ever witnessed in computer gaming http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif