StarFire Mod v-Beta 2 - Page 29

Enigma · #**281** June 2nd, 2005, 04:33 PM

BUMP

----What is the status of this project?

Thanks

President_Elect_Shang · #**282** June 3rd, 2005, 10:11 AM

The email address is correct if; however, you do not put "StarFire Mod" in the subject line I will never see the message. I have a very good filter! Edited in: The StarFire Mod address is no good though.

Speaking of email can I get an admin to come in and remove my email from the public and spybot eye please? Contacting me via private message would have been a lot better thanks!

Enigma · #**283** June 3rd, 2005, 05:46 PM

Sent an email to you.

President_Elect_Shang · #**284** August 1st, 2005, 10:31 AM

This project is permanently closed.

Provided below is a link that explains what has taken place, but to make a long story short the guy that owns the license is trying to kill the version of StarFire this mod was patterned after; namely 3rd Edition. To cut down on competition he has eliminated ALL competition to his self made version of StarFire called GSF.

http://www.starfireassistant.com/

Fyron, please remove any listing to the StarFire Mod ASAP and pass the word along to any other sites that may be hosting a link that refers to this mod. I have destroyed all copies of the mod (hard drive and backup) and as such can no longer give out said copies. If anyone has a copy of this mod they should destroy it also!

Captain Kwok · #**285** August 1st, 2005, 11:30 AM

Why kill the mod? Why not just remove or modify some of the areas that refer to the mod as Starfire?

Fyron · #**286** August 1st, 2005, 11:52 AM

I agree with Kwok on this one... Just rename it Star Empires.

But I guess it might be too late for that, and I don't have a copy of the mod. It's a shame to see all of that work go to waste.

Ed Kolis · #**287** August 1st, 2005, 12:31 PM

Gee, it's fairly well-known that Space Empires is inspired by Starfire... does this mean that they're going to sue Malfador as well?

Kana · #**288** August 1st, 2005, 06:27 PM

Well they can pry my copy of the mod from my dead cold fingers...and I may even make a mod for SEV when it comes out...the mod is for my enjoyment, and I like Starfire...I have Imperial Starfire, and Starfire. Which I assume is 2nd or 3rd version of the series...no one can tell me I can't make something for my enjoyment, if I own a copy of said rules...As long as I don't sell or misrepresent...Well they can try and get blood from a turnip...sorry to see you go to such drastic measures PES...

Kana

President_Elect_Shang · #**289** August 2nd, 2005, 02:15 AM

StarFire and Imperial StarFire are both third edition. StarFire is just the tactical rules and Imperial StarFire is the Empire running rules. They made it into two rule books so those who only wanted to play the tactical combat level didn�t have to weed through page after page of empire rules to find one section.

I decided against renaming the mod and its components as that would take from the spirit of the game I was after. Sorry but I have never liked doing things that way, for me it has always been all or nothing!

I would love to see him try to sue Malfador. GSF is quickly sliding down the drain and StarFire may be dead but the concept behind it is not. The main developer (as noted in the link below) is working on an alternate version of StarFire and when it launches all of us die hard fans will just swap over to it.

I actually own a copy of the GSF rules, bought them when it was first released as I wanted to give this �update� a try. What I didn�t know till I got the books in hand was that this is not an update. It was a total redesign of the game and trounced any joy it had into hell. In my opinion (and you know what they say about opinions) GSF is a paper version of Space Empires and it certainly plays like it as well! Since I own every copy of Space Empires released why would I want to swap from the power of the computer to a pen and paper for the same effect?

Honestly one of my first thoughts after getting the GSF rules and reading them was how ironic this all seemed. StarFire inspired Space Empires and as far as I can tell Space Empires inspired GSF. Maybe it is just my very dry humor but that struck me as more than laughable!

President_Elect_Shang · #**290** August 2nd, 2005, 02:50 AM

For anyone interested this is a link to the �still under development� Star Empires. It will be replacing StarFire third edition; keeping to the spirit and feel of the original game. As opposed to that joke version released called GSF which is closer to a pen and paper version of Space Empires than it is to StarFire.

http://creativestar-games.comstar-me...ar-empires.php

Also here is a link to the discussion group for Star Empires. Joining is free and they welcome all comments. If you have ever wanted to see a 4E game under development or would like to make suggestion feel free to join. I don�t know how they will be working the beta testing but maybe you can get a slice of that pie. If nothing else some of the posted comments make for some good reading.

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/StarEmpires/