No interface Improvements?

Dekent · #1 January 14th, 2004, 08:37 PM

I have MoM, Moo2, and KoDP as some of my old legacy games that still keep dishing out fun =)

What is Stars exactally? I've heard about it but have never been able to find any good information on it, or where one could obtain it.

And the black forest is weird because they took Ulm, the nation known for being a wall of steel, of turned them into a bunch of sneakers, black forest is almost a completally different nation, where most of the themes are just minor changes. I'm not complaining, and I found them fun to play, but that is a rather drastic change you have to admit.

Gandalf Parker · #2 January 14th, 2004, 09:54 PM

Stars is a space conquest game which feels alot like Dominions in many ways. Its PBEM but also greatly enjoyable for solo play. You have many options in creating the race you start with allowing many very different styles of play. It doesnt have quite as many options as dominions but it was safe to say that people who loved starts should look at dominions.

The only thing I would say it fell short of Dominions for me was that its old. Its alot of fun to play and discover tactics that work but as far as the community of the game it felt like there was nothing new to discover. Even *I* was unable to offer any interesting twists they hadnt seen. But it is alot of fun and I still load it to every one of my machines.
http://www.starsfaq.com/

[ January 14, 2004, 19:54: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

licker · #3 January 14th, 2004, 10:35 PM

Is stars! still the micro hell that I remember it being? Sometime in the middle 90s I stumbled across it, checked out a demo and ditched it almost immediately as the micro was such a chore that it killed all the enjoyment for me.

Granted I didn't really give it a long enough look to perhaps learn shortcuts and better methods for doing what I wanted, but at first look... well alot of the time first impressions are the most important (Dom suffers from this too, but I'm more of a sucker for fantasy based games than sci-fi ones).

DimmurWyrd · #4 January 14th, 2004, 11:06 PM

actually the biggest real difference (so far) is that in stars! it's a spreadsheat controlled game where there IS an uber race design and UBER ship design etc. and if you don't follow em and the enemy does your going to lose unless of course the enemy is a strategic nincompoop of course in which case you just got lucky lol.

but seriously I see people comparing the two games a lot and I just don't see the comparison. (aside from the fact that both are great games in thier own right.) but dominions is by far the more balanced where you can play ANY of the races and have an even chance of winning (as long as you don't totally barf on your dominion design but even if you do it's possible to make up for it with good sound strategy) it really is hard to really make a totally unplayable "god" in dominions but in stars it's the opposite it's hard to make a playable "race" hehe.

I guess it's the relatively large number of players per game and PBEM styles of the two that seem to mak epeople want to compare them

[ January 14, 2004, 21:07: Message edited by: DimmurWyrd ]

Dekent · #5 January 15th, 2004, 01:33 AM

Spreadsheet style? *flashback of moo3* ....*shudders*...Stars is a game right? It's not a simulation of a game? ;p

Gandalf Parker · #6 January 15th, 2004, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Dekent:
Spreadsheet style? *flashback of moo3* ....*shudders*...Stars is a game right? It's not a simulation of a game? ;p

Hmmm stars didnt strike me as spreadsheet. VGAPlanets did but not Stars. I think alot of Stars people came to Dominions because if you LIKED stars then you probably liked it for all the starting variations which allowed for completely different playing strategies (oh yeah, plus you already understood and were willing to overlook the quirks of a PBEM game)

What Stars did well, Dominions did much better. IMHO