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Entropicurity is currently offline Entropicurity

 
Petty Officer 1st Class

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Registered: November 2007
Location: Northern Indiana, USA

Hello Commanders and Masterminds alike!

A conversation with a friend prompted me to reminisce about Stars during the holidays. I've been playing the game on and off since the original release of the game (Think it was 1996? Earlier even?) and after finding out that I can play the game through a DOSBox or and/or WINE Shocked I've been itching to see what is new!

Back in 2007 I wanted to try going for a factory-less Super Stealth race and since that time I've lost touch completely on what that exactly means, after all Factory-less, Hyper-Expansion, and Hyper-Production were all the rage back in the day! The conversation with my friend came about over the weekend and since then I've likely played 6 or 7 games and have fallen in love again with a Super Stealth Hyper-Production race with Total-Terraforming. All that and my wife is only MILDLY irritated with me! Oh great times indeed!

For being rusty I think I'm doing alright grabbing between 12k to 20k resources against the AI in a Tiny Dense Universe against 2 Expert AI's and with almost twice the tech to boot!. I'm sure I could hit 25k or just shy of it if I was able to grab just a few more planets (Pesky AI's and spamming colonists!). I think the one I'm playing in right now is a Small Dense game with 6 AI's and really is helping me remember what made me enjoy the game so much in my youth.

That all being said how are things going these days? I've noticed 4 active games running at any given time on the Autohost, and I am curious if there are others who still frequent the community who'd be interested in playing a game or two with an old player like myself? If I recall Claim Adjusters were really out of control (often times banned in most games) and I am curious if that has at all changed or if there is a new monster about!?

I will admit I'm still going through the Stars! Strategy Guide to get a good grasp of all the basics and it is fun to see things I get now that I missed when I was much younger. Stars! was always a very mathematically intense game with multiple layers of complexity and I find that it only gets better with age.

Thanks to anybody and everybody who takes the time to say hello and doubly so for those who provide feedback!

Cheers,
Christopher AKA DicesMuse (formerly Entropicurity in 2007 and formerly before that Stalwart in the 1990's Cool )


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