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Do you remember the railguns?... Wed, 03 August 2016 10:23 Go to next message
platon79 is currently offline platon79

 
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Hi everyone. I was thinking back to the nineties today, and remember that before I started playing the final incarnation of Stars, I briefly played version 2.5 unregistered shareware version (at least I think it was 2.5)
I remember that there was a railgun that could shoot all over the battle board (only 1 damage though..) and that the game was otherwize different in many other ways too. But my memory eludes me, I don't remember much of the 2.5 version. So I was wondering if someone else does? And can share info on what was different in that version of stars compared to 2.6/2.7? Was the race balance completely off? Fewer races? Completely different weapons? Any fond memories, or not so fond memories? Does anyone still have an old version laying around? After all, the KN-2050-site only has the update files.

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Stars 2.0b Wed, 03 August 2016 13:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Altruist is currently offline Altruist

 
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Well, I can't offer 2.5 but some time ago there was a discussion about old Stars versions and someone pooled in old Stars 2.0b which I put on my download space. It's an early Stars version where fuel still needs to be mined and some now extinct weaponry is still in use.

On the bottom on the page:
* http://stars.arglos.net/articles/getting-started.html

PS: Heck, I've found the place where we last talked about Stars 2.0b in this forum... the "some time ago" which I imagined perhaps 2 years ago was, as a matter of fact, in 2008... 8 years ago. Time!


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Re: Stars 2.0b Thu, 04 August 2016 10:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
platon79 is currently offline platon79

 
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Lol, that was funny to try out. Very old-time, it might have been that version that I tried, actually. But I soon upgraded to 2.6. Do you have a link to that other thread that you are talking about? Anyone tried this old version in multiplayer?
"All communication with fleet #1 at Dawn has been lost! They are missing and presumed destroyed by force or forces unknown." It's a harsh universe.. Wink

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Re: Stars 2.0b Fri, 05 August 2016 12:49 Go to previous message
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platon79 wrote on Thu, 04 August 2016 16:45
Do you have a link to that other thread that you are talking about?


Not that much talking actually:
* http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&goto= 40204&rid=775


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