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Topic: Test game open for play?
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| Test game open for play? |
Wed, 05 October 2016 21:45 |
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Nmid and I threw together a quick game to test gens on the new server.
We will be running a number of turns... maybe 10.
But when we are done we could let people actually play.
Everyone could see all the race designs, or only their own.
Small packed.
Races: SS, CA, IT, IS, JoaT. Some HG some -F.
Races were not tested, created in minutes, so no guarantees.
Thoughts?
Raindancer.
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Topic: Duel?
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Topic: Anyone for Duel?
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Topic: A new network and a new game for a new year
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 A new network and a new game for a new year |
Wed, 30 December 2009 16:02 |
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| Orca |
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Messages: 148
Registered: June 2003
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The Stars! player's channel has just completed moving from its longtime home of #Stars! on Starlink to ##Stars! on Freenode.
A toast! To Starlink.org, our home for over a decade.
To celebrate a new beginning and a new year, we will be having a blitz on New Year's Day 2010 at 18:00 GMT (10:00am Pacific for USsies).
Blitzes are fast-running games featuring small universes, 5-10 minute timers, and forced generations until 2440 or 2460, depending. Fights tend to start early, and be rather fierce.
We'll be running our usual tiny packed, acc-bbs, public scores universe, with 4 turn gens to 20, 2 to 40, and 1 thereafter, so make sure you're loaded for bear. If you're new to IRC, I suggest coming in early so you can get file transfer issues and whatnot sorted out before the start time.
To join, fire up an IRC client, such as mIRC, Chatzilla, or Trillian, connect to chat.freenode.net and join the channel ##Stars! (note the two hash marks and the exclamation point at the end). People tend to idle here, so responses may take some time, especially if you're between when the USsies arrive home and the Euros wake up.
I hope to see you there!
Jesus saves.
Allah forgives.
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Topic: 2008/9 Duelling Championship
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| 2008/9 Duelling Championship |
Thu, 10 July 2008 21:25 |
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Duelling championship will start soon so if you are interrested here are some Informations for more Informations Visit the Thread in the Forum .
The rules are listed below, changes to 2007 are marked :
1. The tournament is single-elimination .
2. *Official Tournament Rules*
a. Duels will (hopefully) be hosted on Autohost if Ron agrees, and will be arranged by the Duelling Club Administrator as host.
b. Duels must be fought between two players. The draw will be seeded on the GMT of the Players.
c. All Tournament Duels will have the following Conditions: Small, Normal Universe, Acc-BBS, No Random Events, Public Player Scores (after 50 years).
d. Victory is achieved via surrender of opponent or highest score in year 2460.
e.i. Scoring is as follows :-
Seven "target" worlds will be determined by the Duelling Club Administrator (who will not host his own games ).
Each world will have a point value, as follows:
==Your Homeworld: 3 points
==Enemy Homeworld: 3 points
==Each corner & center world: 1 point each
A player must have population on a world to possess it and gain the point value.
e.ii Five of the seven target worlds will be identified to both participants. Those will be, respectively, the four worlds closest to each corner of the map and ths single world closest to the center. The Administrator's decision on which worlds is FINAL and BINDING.
e.iii. The sixth and seventh worlds will be the Duellist's Home Worlds, which will NOT be identified.
e.iv. In the event that both players have the same score (e.g. centre world not colonised), the player with the highest score generated by the Stars PPS will be used as the determinant.
f. All Tournament Duels have a maximum of 2 months to complete. If a duel is unfinished after 2 months, the player ahead in Score at the end of the time period is declared the winner. In the event all duels in a round are completed sooner than 2 months, the subsequent round will begin.
g. Players wishing to play the JoaT or CA PRTs must leave at least 180 points in the race wizard and JoaT could not take NAS. HE -f are banned !!
h. Players may change race design between rounds.
3. The final duels will have details reported on this forum. The Grand Champion must agree to post his or her race design to this forum as well, and hopefully will provide some commentary on his or her run at the championship.
4. Any questions about the championship may be directed to me.
5. Good luck to all entrants!
Thanx for Interrest .
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Topic: Dueling Club Championship 2005
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| Dueling Club Championship 2005 |
Sun, 07 November 2004 14:36 |
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 EDog |
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Messages: 417
Registered: November 2002
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA | |
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(copied from Dueling Club Announcements)
*FANFARE*
Presenting...the 2005 Stars Duelling Club World Championship!
Think you have what it takes? Think you might be champion material? Can you see yourself on a Wheaties(c) box?
The Stars Dueling Club is pleased to announce the 2005 Championship. The tournament will commence in January. Regular updates will be provided. The rules are listed below:
1. The tournament is single-elimination and will consist of several rounds until a Sweet Sixteen, a Great Eight, and a Final Four are determined. The grand championship will consist of the two duellists that make it furthest in the tourney, and the champion will be declared as the winner of the final duel.
2. The tournament is open to all ranked members of the duelling club. The time between now and January 1 is the "at-large" qualifying period. Any non-ranked player wishing to participate in the championship needs to fight at least one duel between now and then. Qualifying Duels must be completed and reported no later than December 31, 2004.
3. All standard Duelling Club rules are in effect. At-large qualifying duels may be fought to any standards acceptable to both players. See below for official tournament rules.
4. *Official Tournament Rules*
a. Duels must be fought between two players. Opponents will be assigned randomly. There are no limitations to PRT or LRT.
b. All Tournament Duels must have the following Conditions: Small, Packed Universe, Acc-BBS, No Random Events, Public Player Scores.
c. All Tournament Duels must have the following Victory Condition: Highest Score after 50 years.
d. All Tournament Duels have a maximum of 2 months to complete. If a duel is unfinished after 2 months, the player ahead in score at the end of the time period is declared the winner. In the event all duels in a round are completed sooner than 2 months, the subsequent round will begin.
e. All victorious claimants *must* send a screenshot of the score page to me as verification of the victory.
f. Players that advance to subsequent rounds must use the same race name, although they may change race design between rounds. This is for the sake of validity and clarity on the elimination table.
g. Victory by surrender of an opponent must include the screenshot as well as an in-game "I surrender" message. In the event of dropout of an opponent, the victor will be declared at the end of the 2-month period.
5. The final duels will have details reported on this forum. The Grand Champion must agrees to post his or her race design to this forum as well, and hopefully will provide some commentary on his or her run at the championship.
6. Any questions about the championship may be directed to me.
7. Good luck to all entrants!
http://ianthealy.com
Born, grew up, became an adventurer
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Topic: New Stars! Game: Ethereal Distance
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| New Stars! Game: Ethereal Distance |
Sat, 12 April 2003 19:02 |
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I thought I'd try my hand at hosting a game, I'm rather new to this game so I would prefer only beginner to intermediate players. Anyway here are the game stats:
Players: 16
Universe Size: Huge
Density: Sparse
Positions: Distant
x :Public Player Scores
x :Galaxy Clumping
Victory Conditions: Last Man Standing
Rules: No Bug/Features allowed except Chaff and Fleet Dodge.
If interested in joining email pepin162@aol.com an email with the subject title Stars (I most likely won't open anything else...) and attach your passworded race file.
[Updated on: Thu, 30 October 2003 21:56] by Moderator
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Topic: NEW GAME HELL 10
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| NEW GAME HELL 10 |
Wed, 19 February 2003 18:43 |
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Hi people out there .
It is time For HELL 10 .
Here are the Stats for the people who have interrest :
Univers : Large
BBS - Game
Playes : 16
Host is playing
No Cheats expect Shaff
NO CA
Generation : Every day 13 pm
Play at autohost
Winning conditions :
Alliance viktory It could only be 3 Players in an ally and can only set this players to friend .
No Techtrade expect your ally . One time set to friend you can not chance it . So be carfull what you do
will be for ever . If one player is defeated you can take another in your alliance .
For all players who are interrested mail me .
Do not answer at the forum , have not the time to look all the time here 
CCMASTER001@t-online.de
ccmaster , host
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Topic: Notice for posters
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 Notice for posters |
Sun, 12 January 2003 22:32 |
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| Ron |
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Forum Administrator
Stars! AutoHost Administrator |
Messages: 1231
Registered: October 2002
Location: Collegedale, TN | |
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This forum is for announcing new games that are starting.
Ideas for new games, and requests for game idea comments should be posted in The Bar.
Replies to new game annoucements should fit the following conditions:
1. Confirmation that you are interesting in joining the game.
2. Question on game settings/rules.
3. Reply/clarification from game host on game settings/rules.
4. Pre-game announcements by game host.
Any other type of posts are subject to be moved to The Bar.
When the game has started, the game host should request that a moderator post a final message saying that the game has started, and lock the topic.
Thank you for helping to keep a tidy forum.
Ron Miller
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Topic: The Bars of Distance
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| The Bars of Distance |
Thu, 05 December 2002 21:42 |
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| The Taubat |
 | Officer Cadet 3rd Year |
Messages: 263
Registered: December 2002 | |
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ZZZs banned
HE
CA
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LRTs banned
TT
ARM
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LRTs required
RS
IS
CE
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Habitat
1 imune max
15% max
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mines and facs
any on all
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R&D
3 cheap 3 expensive
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Mass packet flinging beyond warp 10 is not allowed
Missiles are also not allowed
Anti-matter Pulverizer is also banned
ABBSP MM will be selected
medium size and packed
3 turns will be generated per day (10:00am 3:00pm 8:00pm) sat. and sun. 2 turns will be generated at 10:00am and 8:00pm
need a volunteer to look at the races cause I want to play too.
need 4-8 people. you will be paired up and your partner will be what that race is linked too and here they are
UFP
Vulcans (taken)
Klingons
Romulans
Species 8472
Hirogen
Cardassian
Jem'Hadar
United Federation of Planets are linked to the Vulcans
Klingons are linked to the Romulans
Species 8472 are linked to the Hirogen
Cardassians are linked the Jem'Hadar
With your names comes the PRT
UFP=JOAT
Vulcans=IS
Klingons=WM
Romulans=SS
Species 8472=AR
Hirogen=IT
Cardassians=SD
Jem'Hadar=HE
note: since United Federation of Planets is too long you can use Starfleet, UFP or Feds
this game is geared towards beginners but experts are allowed to play but you will have to be species 8472, UFP or Jem'Hadar with 12% growth rate.
I will use a Universe editor to create vertical bars of planets (if there are 4 players 3 bars 6 players 3 bars and 8 players 4 bars) Your homeworlds will be side by side causing you to work with you partner.
note: you cannot team up with other teams to beat somebody
game will end for some player or teams it they decide to quit. vote will be at 2750
you can E-mail at cribbage_player_24@softhome.net
[Updated on: Fri, 06 December 2002 11:02]
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Topic: Double Trouble (Still a few players needed)
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| Double Trouble (Still a few players needed) |
Tue, 05 November 2002 13:27 |
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| Alter Ego |
 | Officer Cadet 4th Year |
Messages: 283
Registered: November 2002
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Hi!
Looks goooood! 
And I'll usethe chance right away: I've posted announcements on the old Homeworld Forum and the NG about the new game I'm starting. By now, there are enough people interested to make it two games. But those would still have a few vacant slots. Anybody interested?
Regards
Alter Ego
[Updated on: Sun, 12 January 2003 22:24] by Moderator
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Forum: Stars! Nova - Open Discussion and Help
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Topic: Subreddit?
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Forum: FreeStars
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Topic: Stars using Celestia
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| Stars using Celestia |
Sat, 30 June 2007 06:23 |
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Has anyone considered using Celestia's engine for a Stars clone? Celestia's free (open source I think too), it's 3D and has whole real solar systems built in that can be rewound or fast forwarded as the user wishes. I dunno, it might not feel like Stars if it were 3D but I'm just suggesting to see what the response would be.
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Topic: And other FreeStars! Client
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Topic: ATTN: LEit, need common files
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| ATTN: LEit, need common files |
Fri, 26 November 2004 01:04 |
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| TomT64 |
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Messages: 45
Registered: August 2003 | |
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LEit, sorry to post here. I need to express a few things.
In order to include the parsing functions found in the folder /server, I right now need to go through the whole program and copy what I need into my own files, because each cpp file includes FSServer.h.
So basically, my choices are:
1) Copy your classes into my own files
2) Make my own classes, structs, etc
3) Compile the FreeStars server into my client
I recommend, to fix this,
1) a porting of any class that can be used to contain data on objects in the game to the /common folder (I'm using all lowercase here, please do the same, for less confusion across clients)
2) Changing a method in the planet class with the spelling "Dislpay" to "Display"
3) file and freestars version checking for loading of a file. It would be perfectly fine by me if you made a class to hold the file info, which in turn holds classes and contaniers of classes which contain data on specific objects.
If you need help doing any of this, I ask you only to move things to common that contain data, and I will write anything that's missing or needed (such as the afroementioned FreeStarsFile class) to contain this data and offer you the changes via gsatars CVS for your approval. I'll be including a /common folder. For the record, I've already put TinyXmlPlus.* in /common and I'm pretty sure I made a couple of minor changes to let it compile without errors or warnings. I would do the same with other files.
- TomT64
GStars! - A FreeStars Client (currently dead)
http://gstars.sf.net/
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Topic: Re: Damage calculations
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| Re: Damage calculations |
Tue, 23 November 2004 10:02 |
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| LEit |
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Messages: 879
Registered: April 2003
Location: CT | |
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| mazda wrote on Tue, 23 November 2004 05:32 |
Are the FreeStars people going to duplicate it exactly, with rounding errors and all ?
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No. There are several things that will be different, some because we can't figure out excatly how Stars! does them without looking at the code (exact odds of MT stuff for example), and some because we have more power on the computer and will use it (the 1/512 or 1/500 thing).
This discussion has been helpful in figuring out what needs to happen in the battles even if it won't be exactly duplicated.
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Topic: InterGalatic Internet
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| InterGalatic Internet |
Mon, 25 October 2004 11:17 |
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| mithro |
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Messages: 7
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Firstly I apologise if somehow I have sent this to the wrong people.
Hello fellow 4X space game developers,
I'm the lead developer of the Thousand Parsec project (http://www.thousandparsec.net/).
Through my travels to gather support for my project I have found many other similar (although not exactly the same) projects. Each project has a unique and extremely interesting point of view, however all the projects seem to have fairly small communities.
A naive person would think that we would be better to join all our efforts and work on one single project, however you'll all understand the impossibilities of this ever occurring. However we can all share both communities and ideas (and possibly through this code).
What I am proposing is developing a game neutral site (include neutral towards my own project) in which all these similar games can be promoted, discussed and which will help bring together our respective communities. This site would be completely non-commercial and would be funded through my own pocket and donations. I plan to call this "thing" the "InterGalatic Internet" and will reside at http://igi.cc/.
I have setup a mailing list http://igi.cc/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo in which we can hopefully discuss issues such as;
* What should be included on the website
* Ways to promote cross pollination
* Ways to aggregate (or syndicate) news and other similar
Even if the website is a total flop I still hope it will have brought us fellow developers together.
Please subscribe to the list if you are somewhat interested.
Thanks for your time and hope to chat to you all soon.
Tim Ansell aka Mithro
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Topic: FreeStars Documentattion
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Forum: Circular File
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Topic: Neat
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Topic: New Ways to Spend Time
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| New Ways to Spend Time |
Sun, 18 March 2018 18:58 |
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| talkingbologna |
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Messages: 86
Registered: November 2016
Location: 1947 | |
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Never had time to keep up with times, really. Just went through my woefully undersized computer (148GB) and deleted 58 gigs of games I haven't played in long enough that I figure I won't again till I'm ready to reinstall it. My Asus has alright power,
Intel i5 dual core 2.27GHz
4GB RAM
Radeon HD 5470
Nothing especial but good enough for most games on or near minimum quality settings. This being said, can anyone recommend a game playable on a computer? That Banished looks pretty cool, but today I'm piqued by Star Wars (just finished Rebels show (not a word about kids cartoons!)).
I'm also interested in building my own computer to make this one look like a room full of magnetic tape and vacuum tubes. I've read that there are thousand dollar graphics cards and terabyte solid state drives on the market, but next year it'll be half that price with something better already available, so I'll probably stick to a total system @ $2000 (maybe less to start, with upgrade potential). Maybe Mac or Linux?
Would anybody have any suggestions on that, as well?
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Topic: Stars Map...Game In Progress
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Topic: Gehan Gunasekara: Let's lead the spooks a merry dance
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Topic: Take a look at Mak
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Topic: Event Horizon 2
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| Event Horizon 2 |
Sun, 21 October 2012 10:51 |
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| ekolis |
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I don't remember if I ever posted about Event Horizon on here, but in case I didn't, EH is a simple 4X game developed by Nick Dumas (Suicide Junkie) and myself. You've got a hex grid of sectors from which you can mine resources, and your ships are constructed of only four components: Hull, Thrusters, Weapons, and Shields. I've got some screenshots and downloads here:
http://edkolis.exofire.net/eventhorizon.php
Well, Nick and I are working on a sequel!
Event Horizon 2 will be much more detailed than EH1, and we're starting out by building a hex-based ship designer and a turn-based tactical combat game, then building the strategic layer around it. We've got a mostly functional ship designer, and Nick said he'd be working on tactical combat this weekend. (Last I heard on Friday, he had combat mechanics working, but no GUI to issue commands.)
I've got some screenshots of the game linked at the bottom of the EH page I linked above, and Nick has some more on his site:
http://imagemodserver.dyndns.org/nick/GreenEggsAndHam/EH2/pi ctures/
I've also started work on a web GUI using Javascript, so eventually you could actually play directly from the website!
Mr. Flibble says...
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Topic: Earth developing a primitive minefield?
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. It is in RTF format in a .RAR file. If any should know UML, there is also included the UML Class diagrams for the code (but it may not be working correctly, I will follow up. . .)
