| Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Tue, 09 December 2008 23:18  |
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I first played Stars! roughly a million years ago, when it came out originally. However, I was never very good at it, and only recently started playing it again.
I'd love to get into a duel with someone. Probably won't take very long. 
I don't want to join a larger game because those appear to have teams, and I don't want my inevitable sucking to bring pain to my teammates.
Incidentally, Stars! works fine on a Mac under Crossover. Since it'll also work under Linux (with Wine), and not under Vista (it's 16-bit code), that means that the only platform it doesn't run on is the one it was originally designed for. Isn't that hilarious?
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Tue, 09 December 2008 23:39  |
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That sounds good to me. Tiny galaxy, two or three players (I know I said duel, but I mainly just don't want allies), 24h turns?
I think there's a FAQ one of us could read through.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Tue, 09 December 2008 23:54 |
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Okay, let's move the universe size to small then. I'm just trying to ensure the game ends in a reasonable timeframe.
Looks like the first step in hosting a game is emailing to be put on the waiting list, so let me do that and if we get a third (also newbie) player before the game starts, great, if not, duel.
Edit: Just asked to be added to the list.
[Updated on: Wed, 10 December 2008 00:09] Report message to a moderator
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Wed, 10 December 2008 22:19 |
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| randrews wrote on Wed, 10 December 2008 05:54 |
Just asked to be added to the list.
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There isn't a waiting list nowadays. Autohost can manage upto 100 games. Usually duels aren't hosted at autohost, though, to reduce the workload for Ron but hosted by one of the players. I'd suggest the following:
* don't wait for more players... over christmas it will be difficult anyway and a 1:1 is a fair thing while 3 players...
* one or perhaps even both of you can play the host... don't use autohost. How to host is explained in the Stars! help-file, search for "Hosting Modem and Email Games".
* set a password to your file race
* discuss your prefered generation schedule like 1 turn/day including or excluding weekends... what about christmas?
Have fun playing.
After your duel, you are legitmate to join our Duelling Club. Don't forget that duels have a different logic than the usual 6-16 player games.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Wed, 10 December 2008 22:48 |
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Fair enough. In that case, I am happy to host. I'll just generate turns as soon as I get files, so the early game doesn't take forever, if we want to do more than one turn a day.
Go ahead and send me a race file (you can email me at randrews@geekfu.org ) and I'll set everything up.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Thu, 11 December 2008 10:45 |
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Okay, send me race files and I'll assemble everything and send to Autohost.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Thu, 11 December 2008 11:10 |
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If I'm sending it to the Autohost, I'm not hosting anything.
As for deadlines... I dunno. Two weeks is what the email says.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Thu, 11 December 2008 11:18 |
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I'm for including him, if for no other reason than it's apparently not worth hosting duels on AH.
On the other hand, I don't want to wait forever. So let's say, I dunno, noon Saturday is the deadline for race files in. I live in US Central time.
And you can email me stuff at randrews@geekfu.org , or there's probably a way to post files here.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Thu, 11 December 2008 12:45 |
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| Eagle of Fire | 
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I see that you have ICQ... Do you use MSN?
Edit: And BTW, it's really a bad idea to post your email in a forum. You are better to send us a PM with it instead.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Thu, 11 December 2008 12:59 |
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Oh, I'd read in some other thread that it didn't. Never mind then.
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| Re: Anyone want to play a newbie? |
Thu, 11 December 2008 13:42 |
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-5.
Are you also in Texas, or someplace in the midwest?
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