| Re: We need to save Stars! |
Wed, 30 October 2019 23:33   |
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 ricks03 |
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mrvan wrote on Mon, 09 September 2019 16:43I fear that if we really wish to save stars!, what needs to be done is a rewrite, with a browser-based client (so no software is needed to play) and a means of scripting (to manage the MM on larger games).
This has been tried a number of times, I suppose - but how difficult can it really be to rewrite a 90's game? It's not as if the Jeffs had a team of 20 programmers slaving away at it for years... I think you sum it it - given the number of attempts, fairly difficult. In many respects, each attempt to rewrite it has only made the game weaker. People burn out on the project, and I'll bet leave.
From a MM perspective, I give you a contrast. I play a board game called RoboRally. It's a race game, so you can, in many respects, make the game as long or short as you want. Yet one common complaint I hear is, "It's too long; it takes HOURS". Because people pick multiple boards, too many players for the board layout, and make the game take a long time. People have a tendency to pick more complicated than they actually want.
I had plenty of time as a college student. I don't as a working adult. Most stars players are at least my age because, well, that's the era of stars! Entering a packed huge game is a travesty if playing amongst people you don't know. Too many will have real life take them out of the game. But it's not so bad it you limit the universe size and star density.
And stars! has some automation for load balancing minerals. I'll admit, if I could mineral balance in the same manner as how fuel balancing was (mostly) removed I'd take it. But I'd like that at the game creation level. And it's there with Max minerals.
Oh, and a good/current page of all the Stars! utilites. Many of the old links are dead. I have the ones I like just because I downloaded them ages ago.
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