| Re: Finding Stars-players |
Mon, 20 November 2017 13:39   |
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While thinking about new players, and right after trying in another thread to answere some questions about "How to get going with Stars" to a new player, I realized that today it is quite a steep step to "get going":
1) Finding and hearing about Stars
2) Finding this forum
3) Getting Stars to run on a modern computer
4) Which Stars version?
5) Obtaining a unique serial number
Once those steps are done, we have then a huge wealth of articles and utilities to get as in depth as one wants to become with the finer parts of Stars but those first steps aren't really easy at the moment.
Some of the above steps I can easily write together myself but with the more technical stuff I am rather one of the forum members the least competent (no wonder with the concentration of Stars-players being programers of one or the other kind what I am certainly not).
We do have lots of very helpful and competent people in here willing to lead new players step by step how to set up their computer to get Stars running and several threads about it:
# Back after 3 years, Windows 10?
# Windows 7 compatibility issues? Look no further!
But a 34 post thread about it might come a bit overwhelming for the new player.
So it would be great if one of the knowledgable (not me! *grin* as proud as I am that i got the virtual box running) could perhaps summarize it into a single post we could make sticky and use instead of the already existing ones? Quite some work is, I think, already done but, as I said, hidden within quite many posts.
So in general I think it would be a great idea to have a sticky very well sorted and linked thread where a new player can find everything he or she needs to play Stars and to take part in a multiplayer game for the first time. And great if one of the Mods (looking to ccmaster) could maintain and edit the first posts in such a thread to hopefully stop it from becoming too big and confusing.
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