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Re: Stars! dying

Sat, 07 January 2006 00:18

GreyMatter

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BlueTurbit wrote on Fri, 06 January 2006 22:34

Is the Stars! community dying? I was gone for a few months and there seem to be less and less posts here. Newsgroups shrunk. Websites disappeared. etc. etc. etc....

You just noticed after 3 months ? Shocked

Consider this:
about 3 years ago there were about 100 games, 1000+ unique players running on AH, a couple years ago I started to notice ~70/700 ratio - now it is Jan. 7,2006: 50 games, 326 active players (276 unique).
The trend is clear...

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I see there are new members, but did they buy Stars! or did they inherit their packages from dying Stars! relatives. Salvage from burnt houses and sunken ships? Surely every Stars! player has left his prize CD in his will?

I guard my serial as a most valuable treasure - had almost lost it a couple of times during the moves between states...

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Can you still purchase serial numbers? The threads posted here seem to be old and outdated too.

I believe there was some site - we could prob locate it here...

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Will there ever be a Stars! replacement or upgrade or anything to help revive it and restore it to its once great elite status.

Well, I am currently working on a mod - just to test new ideas etc. - similar to VML mod, but more changes, more strategies etc... if that mod has any success, I may devote some time to a full re-write.

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That brings to mind my first space game... when was it... back in 1999 or around there... when I first searched the internet for a space strategy game to replace my all-time favorite.

I think, I discovered Stars! sometime in 1995 or so... those good ole days...
...10+ years later, I now have 3 P4 computers at home instead of one in the university lab where I first ran Stars!. I have one with P4EE 21 inch LCD - to run some stupid FPS Smile

, but I still play Stars! on it mostly!!!

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I remembered playing the game Elite, which I had also become very fond of, until my Commodore and Atari ST systems went their way and the PC world invaded me. Elite also had a wide following in its time. This search is how I ran across the Stars! game.

I think, my parents still have my first commodore128 somewhere in their home. I believe it was still working last time I packed it - I asked my parents not to throw it away under any curcumstances Smile

- this might be priceless in another 10-20 years Smile

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Elite. Anyone remember that. Last time I searched it still has a wide following. Something like a million downloads. Yikes! How would you like to sell those for $5.00 a pop.

I liked that game too ...

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Ah, those good ole days. I don't know. I may have told this story before. At my age, sonny, you never know, you never know for sure. If it was more than a couple of weeks ago, this could be true. There comes a time when you have to keep a joke list so you can remember what decade you told what to whom.

welcome to the club! Smile

- just kidding Smile

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AND WHAT'S WITH this AutoHost site? It has turned foreign. Look at the moderators: Micha, Madam Ashlyn, Donjon, EDog. The whole damn place is run by foreign peoples. Rolling Eyes

Uhm, well, what is wrong with that ? Smile

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		Stars! dying By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 06 January 2006 22:34
		Re: Stars! dying By: GreyMatter on Sat, 07 January 2006 00:18
		Re: Stars! dying By: EDog on Sat, 07 January 2006 01:23
		Re: Stars! dying By: multilis on Sat, 07 January 2006 02:22
		Re: Stars! dying By: Madman on Sat, 07 January 2006 07:17
		Re: Stars! dying By: NingunOtro on Sat, 07 January 2006 10:49
		Re: Stars! dying By: Strannik on Sat, 07 January 2006 11:11
		Re: Stars! dying By: multilis on Sat, 07 January 2006 15:22
		Re: Stars! dying By: PricklyPea on Wed, 11 January 2006 07:31
		Re: Stars! dying By: multilis on Wed, 11 January 2006 08:56
		Re: Stars! dying By: PricklyPea on Wed, 11 January 2006 11:40
		Re: Stars! dying By: multilis on Wed, 11 January 2006 12:10
		Re: Stars! dying By: Kelzar on Wed, 11 January 2006 12:59
		Re: Stars! dying By: Madman on Thu, 12 January 2006 10:16
		Re: Stars! dying By: Madman on Thu, 12 January 2006 18:09
		Re: Stars! dying By: Iconian on Wed, 18 January 2006 15:47
		Re: Stars! dying By: Dogthinkers on Wed, 18 January 2006 16:33
		Re: Stars! dying By: Iconian on Wed, 18 January 2006 21:30
		Re: Stars! dying By: MOONSHINE SAM on Tue, 10 January 2006 20:33
		Re: Stars! dying By: snoopreg on Wed, 18 January 2006 21:58
		Re: Stars! dying By: bigdave on Thu, 02 February 2006 17:35
		Re: Stars! dying By: Iperithon on Fri, 03 February 2006 05:17
		Re: Stars! dying By: sirgwain on Tue, 21 February 2006 15:44
		Re: Stars! dying By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 21 February 2006 18:16
		Re: Stars! dying By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 21 February 2006 18:19
		Re: Stars! dying By: sirgwain on Tue, 21 February 2006 20:16
		Re: Stars! dying By: Kotk on Tue, 21 February 2006 21:56
		Re: Stars! dying By: sirgwain on Tue, 21 February 2006 23:14
		Re: Stars! dying By: Tomasoid on Wed, 22 February 2006 11:37
		Re: Stars! dying By: Tomasoid on Wed, 22 February 2006 11:42
		Re: Stars! dying By: Ptolemy on Wed, 22 February 2006 23:00
		Re: Stars! dying By: Dogthinkers on Wed, 22 February 2006 23:34
		Re: Stars! dying By: Madman on Thu, 23 February 2006 00:17
		Re: Stars! dying By: BlueTurbit on Sun, 26 February 2006 12:25
		Re: Stars! dying By: BlueTurbit on Sun, 26 February 2006 22:32
		Re: Stars! dying By: Dogthinkers on Sun, 26 February 2006 23:14
		Re: Stars! dying By: c64k on Thu, 02 March 2006 03:28

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