Starlost

Wow Traveller I used to love playing that between AD&D, Call of Cthulu, Top Secret and of course Paranoia.... Traveller was always my favorite.

Yeah! Another Lightwave modder in the ranks!. What version ya running? I only have the 7.5d version though v9 is out there and doing great things.. I need the $$ to get that puppy.. I tried to recreate the Doomsday Machine from Trek and have it available for Huge ship size for Custom Race but it never shows up. hopefully CariElf's Guide will answer that question for me ( Thanks CariElf!!! ) With all the debate about the Terror Stars I am surprised no one has ju

They want sounds now? Next they will want graphics! Just be glad that this game runs on this teletype and the waiting for the turns to be ready for you again are now under 2 hours. Jeez ya think they were all playing on punch card systems still...

Well Terror Stars are just way cool. Don't know about the charge up time frame but I do believe in the 1 space per turn movement restriction. Starpot building them is not really a good idea. Since it would be a space built entity. But your on the right track it would have to be built initially in your sphere of influence only. So you can't just send over 10 or 20 or whatver the magic number of constructors will be to create it to the enemys planet. Lets face it you send a fleet or a line of con

Wow Trade Wars I used to run that one when I ran a BBS years ago. It was great. I figured out the codes for that thing and unlocked the game editor. My kid brother and I were always on that game. Until the cooler graphic games came along. We use to actually map out the game so we knew where stuff was and best trade routes etc. I especially like the lottery that the game started your turns off with. 3579 were the most frequent numbers ( scary that I still remember that) But I used to make a

Anyone remember M.A.X. and M.A.X.2 Now that was a fun game. and of course lets not forget the very first computer game to ever come along. Star Trek, granted it was all text based and worked on a 64x64 grid space with a for Enterprise and warping around killing the Klingon Ships. I still have someplace in storage the original source code for it. Spent hours on the computer ( which took up an entire floor in an office building late at nite playing it. when I was like 7 or 8

What is the "HEROS" option in that list? I don't quite get that one... personally I like several of the options in the listing.. I love customizing alot and the more random things can get the better at least for me. Improved tactics and battles would be cool. I find the idea of assorted Alliace types intriguing You can have a military alliance with someone and not lose your economic position with another. That would be cool.

Definately worth the waiting. Glad to see that at least one company listens to it's customers and keeps the enthusiasm at the same time. Very good work all.. Starlost..

Time is an Illusion, Lunchtime doubly so... - Unknown It's My way or, aw the hell with it, it's MY way... - Starlost Never trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die - Unknown Never Fear Smith is Here. - Col. Zachary Smith - Johnathan Harris Today is a good day to die.. - You pick any Klingon will say this.. Here comes another asshole - local Barstool It's good to be the King - Mel Brooks "I'm here to kic

Well I was hoping the Terror Stars would have shown up in 1.2. In a previous posting I pointed out that Terror Stars would be planet killers and using the Andromeda Series Nova Bombs to take out a whole star system. But the AI would have to have a way as well as yourself, to see or learn that someone is researching that tech. There has to be a way to counter both types of weapons in order to maintain game balance. A terror Star is useless against a fleet of ships. and 1 shot deal nova bomb ca

now what would be good if you had a range setting for it. something like 15 range would allow you time to move a fleet in to protect the starbase. Since many times I see the AI get right up to a starbase and take it out. They are nice things to watch unless it's your starbase. They really need to make it so that the starbase is a harder target to take out minimum it should have a starting 500 hp level too many times I've seen a simple fighter take out a starbase all by itself with 1 laser no de

Thats because you have to go to the secret bar and tell them Jabba sent you. Then you'll receive the plans for the moving Base. it'll be hidden in a mobile waste can. Look for the one thats beeping..

OK Fess up you renamed your pirate fleet the Black Pearl didn't you...

Rush the research of Huge ships. and planet invasion. Create about 20 huge ships with nothing on them. push them out the fastest planet you have producing. Now create a huge troop transport ship. Take those 20 huges useless ships and create a fleet(s) move them into your enemy's territory preferably at their high PQ planets then mass upgrade. and invade. They wont see you massing a fleet of warships and wont build up defensive ships on the planet. At most they will have 1 defender. So make sur

Good point if your without a planet or Starbase at all ( and generally the AI is pretty good at targeting your Starbases first if any ) your ship would not be able to move anywhere at all. This would mean that in order for it to work your last ship(s) should have a limited range. Of course if it's a troop transport ship as your last resort it should be allowed to travel only as far as the nearest planet and attempt invasion ( provided it's not blasted outta the cosmos before you get the chanc

You can use Lightwave and just add the directx free plugin that exports the model in version 7 format or version 8 format. I did the Trek Doomsday Machine and converted it to Direct X through Modeller. worked like a charm for that part but I'm not versed enuff yet to get the actual model to show up in the game I need to know the naming conventions for the Custom Player Ships since I want the models there not just as humans..

Now if it were culmulative giving you say 30 range total that would be good. But as far as I can tell the max is 15.

A recent poll regarding Illeagle Aliens. 47% said that "there is a clear and present problem/danger and it's getting worse" 53% said " No hable ingles"

Generally I find the AI's with just 3 planets ( or at least from what I can see are only 3 planets) I rarely ever see the AI minor races with more than 1 planet shame about that.. Anyhow.. I build up a 3 wave fleet for each planet and send them out. The first pounds out most of the planets defensive ships the 2nd wave comes in as reinforcement ships and takes out the next ship produced the 3rd wave which sits off by a 2 grid point from the planet is the transport ship which the

I would like to see the engine class used to affect the weapons damage ability as well. Face it you have a warp core that you can pull power from to get that extra 3 pts of damage. get a tiny ship with laser 1 and a great egine and you have a 5 pts damage ability same for the shielding as well. The more power you have the better it should be. This is where the tech tree issue comes into play where you need something from this branch and something from that branch to create a new weapon or defen

Firefox works like a champ here. Never touch IE save for updates to the OS itself...

We have Black Hole Guns, Discovery Spheres, Massive Scale building, but still no worthwhile spellcheckers... sigh... Starlost...

Then swapout the font file you want to use with the one in the folder. It would be easy to just create a simple batch program that would switch the 2 fonts back and forth.

Well we are all anxious for the docs to be sure. I use Lightwave 3D and create the .X file that way just need to know how to implement it all. So I wait for the tutes to come rolling in.. ( I recreated the DoomsDay Machine from Trek and converted it into an X file ) Theoretically I could use it in the game now but I need to figure out how the nulls are working so I can put in a hardpoint. etc.. then learn how to determine the size the ship is etc.. and everything else etc.. et

Is there any chance that we will be able to model new starbase? So that each Civ has a unique style base design. I see this as an avenue that has'nt been approached yet..