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Reply to Don't fall into the No Man's Skytrap in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I have always considered BC3000 to be a great example of what you get if you try to make a space combat game and you don't understand the space combat part of it. When everyone else was talking about the technology he claimed to be using and couldn't really create, I was wondering where he learned the form of "Space Combat ACM" you need to understand to make a game where two ships actually fight each other. This is why you don't see space ship games very often, the com

Reply to Don't fall into the No Man's Skytrap in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

That's funny, generational gap. You say Peter Moleneux and, I remember him... but I think Derek Smart:-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD

Reply to The First Fifteen Minutes challenge. in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

If you remember, Vale said that you would start the game in front of a planet to land on as the first thing you do, during the first 30 seconds. I interpreted that as a kind of "Fwiffo Start" where the first thing you will do is land on a planet that you begin the game at and get your first quest from the first NPC that you meet, the quivilant of Fwiffo on Pluto in SC2 only you meet this one as the first thing you do. So that quest, then, is that first 15 minutes that they want to

Reply to Duh.... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Actually, since I'm on the subject and I'm sure there are a lot of B5 fans here that won't mind the off-topic discussion... B5 Wars is the reason that there was never a Babylon 5 computer game. I've heard lots of people wonder about that before, and it was because of B5 Wars. The idea had been that once we created a game truly worthy of the Babylon 5 Universe that computer game makers would then base their comparative "mini-games" on our work. Compute

Reply to Duh.... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

And since it's now after midnight. It's the anniversary of the day the Japanese officially surrendered on the decks of the Battleship Missouri... and my birthday!!! So happy birthday to me... Marc, Marcus, Self-Destruct, Marcus Cole, Kavik Kang... whatever you want to call me, I'm 48! [e digicons]:beer:[/e] EDIT: I thought I should point out that this wasn't any big conspiracy, although there was an aspect of secrecy too it that in

Duh.... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I was talking to someone earlier today and they reminded me of something I had completely forgotten about. I've talked about SFB here a lot. And those "nefarious activities"... Well, without making this a long post, back when Babylon 5 came out, and we were still somewhat of a dominant force in the world of games, we managed to, let's say... "arrange"... to sort of "take" Babylon 5 because, of course, we had already done Star Trek and doing Babylon 5 now would be rea

Reply to What are your top 5 games of all time? in Star Control Ideas/Wishes StarControl Forums

Hi... Whoever you are SFB player? Would I know your name, I am "that Romulan/Orb guy" Marc Michalik. Master of Magic... it was so awesome even though it was so broken, kind of like Blitzkrieg!

Reply to Don't fall into the No Man's Skytrap in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

As long as the universe is not too big, generating a nice looking starting point to work from and then simply "doing your artwork" over the top of that is how to get the best of both worlds. You get a far more randomized and realistic starting point than you would by trying to do the whole thing yourself, and then you destroy the "simple math to our brains" that the players will pick up on and actually cause them to think of it as repetitive and monotonous. I'm sure this isn&#

Reply to Don't fall into the No Man's Skytrap in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

This NMS map you are talking about is the same thing as the "programmer math". That's why I posted that, it is really the same concept. That map you are discussing is being generated by that "programmer math" and then being used raw, that is apparent from your discussion. All they need to do to address your complaint, then, is to go over that map and custom design what is there... it's like "translating the math back" to six sided dice (or multiples of 10 stating at

Reply to Don't fall into the No Man's Skytrap in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

This issue is related to a concept from our massive universe. SFB is certainly the largest and most complex game ever made. And it was designed by a professional engineer. But there is a big difference between how Steve Cole did it, and modern "programmer game design". "Programmer game design" revels in mathematics. Coole tricks of advanced mathematics that do this, and have that effect... really cool stuff!!! If you are among the 5% of the population that

Reply to July 31 music in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I have a unique perspective on music. I think SCII might be one of if not the last game I ever played with music on. I remember hearing all the music playing it, and loving the SCII music. But sometime right around when SCII was new, like 25 years ago, I began turning off the music in all games as a part of installing them. I have the music disabled before I ever start a game for the first time, or turning it off is the first thing I do when I get to the main menu for

Reply to Duplicated - See Tywom Auditions in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote quoting="post"] The accent that Chris S has reminds me of the character Kolrami in the Star Trek TNG episode Peak Performance. He sounds full of himself, will back down when pushed, but won't run away entirely. [/quote] Kolrami is Steve Cole, and that entire episode is an endless tribute to SFB from beginning to end. There are almost no lines in the episode that aren't taken directly from SFB ("Combat is a minor province in the

Reply to How to get people to notice Star Control in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I think that Stardock should stress the adventure game aspects, which sounds like that would include their "post game DLC" plans as well, and the love for SC as a unique "Adventure-Arcade" game that many of the original generation of computer gamers have for SC2. SC2 really was one of only a few games of that era that was held up alongside of Civilization and Master of Orion at the time, and is still remembered that way by that generation today. This should be the focus of the mes

Reply to How to get people to notice Star Control in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

There is a guy named "ZiggyD" that does youtube videos for PoE, and many game companies hire him to feature their games. He is very good at it and a very likeable guy. Stardock may even know of Ziggy, he has a pretty large audience. You tube is probably most effective through streamers like ziggy, who also then inspire other "hobbyist" you tubers to feature your game as well.

Reply to June Update: Landing Sequence in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I still think it can work even with a lot of landings as long as it happens really quickly, in like 6 seconds or so. Then it is so fast it never seems tedious, and if you just want to ignore it you don't die or anything, you just don't land on target. So you get the benefit of doing it, no huge deal for not succeeding... and then you make it "1980's arcade game hard" to do in an interesting way so that it is a fun thing to do if you get it down anyway. The 1980&#

Reply to June Update: Landing Sequence in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

The big thing to avoid is the idea that "procedural activities" make a space ship game fun, or "realistic". Many games make this mistake because it can sound like such a great idea... It will be like you are Captain Kirk! "Charge Capacitors!!! Lock Phasers on Target!!! Load Torpedoes!!! Acquire Torpedo Lock... Open outer doors!!! Wait for it... Fire!!!" It will be great!!! And it will be... the first three or four times. After that you

Reply to How we've affected development in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Hey, I've got a good one for you... Put a guy selling Taco's from a cart somewhere in the game. Reminiscent of the Taco Cart Guy in that episode of Hercules, Haha!!!

Reply to A little bit of game history... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I realize that, but this is a very unique situation I am in the middle of. And I was not attacking you in any way, I was trying to subtly suggest, without sounding like a jerk, that what you are reading here is special for you too. Without sounding like a... there is just no other way of saying it. This is almost certainly a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to read things about these types of issues who was literally born into the middle of the heart of all of this a

Reply to A little bit of game history... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Then you really should read a LOT more carefully, because there is more information in here than you can possibly imagine, and I am definitely done. Anyone who understands what has been said, surely can't miss the epic importance of it all.

Reply to A little bit of game history... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

After all that, I couldn't resist one last futile attempt to at least so much as dent the Active Ablated-Reactive Super-Powered Articulated Adamantium Armor W/Milti-Phased Mystical & Magical Star Trek Shields of Soviet Intelligence with just one both fascinating and CLEARLY PROVEN past example of their... "work". You probably all remember the passionate, caring, loving, peaceful intented, innocent, leftist CRUSADE to "Save The Whales" from the evil USNAVY from genociding every

Reply to A little bit of game history... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Final Moral of the Story: If you ever make an astounding scientific breakthrough, NEVER tell anyone about it until you are ready to ABSOLUTELY begin to prove it to SCIENCE!!! Ever!!! I knew this right from the beginning, prepared for it with 7 months of non-stop 14+ per day writing every day resulting in nearly 500 pages that constitute absolute proof of the theory to any scientist on Earth... Just barely beating the clock by a mere 2 days before my own brother, mother, &amp

Reply to How we've affected development in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Until there is a more regular stream of things to see, I think things will stay pretty slow until they are at a point where they can show more here. The more they show, and more regularly, the more will become active... and the devs know that. At this stage you would only expect the "hard core" or in SFU lingo "The Staff Types", to be around during any kind of extended lull. The mass audience only arises where there is something new and significant, and it kind of works in l

Reply to A little bit of game history... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Haha. Since there are certainly many trekkies like me here, I'll do one last thing from the PDU completely unrelated to any issues of this thread I have ever mentioned, and really just a really interesting take on something from a trekkie's perspective that stands on it's own, and is also an example of the uniqueness of the perspecitive of the PDU that arises from the "Rules of Zeus". The "Rules of Zeus" are the original bible rules for Zeus in my universe and where th

Reply to How we've affected development in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

And for some reason this thread makes me wonder if they decided to use the "peeling the onion" even as at least a concept behind bosses, if not for bases because for some reason they don't want bases. That's layered defense is really fun to bring down in this genre.

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[quote who="Hunam_" reply="37" id="3642857"] Rube is a lie. [/quote] That is the most clever response I can possibly imagine. Don't expect it, because it almost certainly won't happen, but I ever have a staff for PDU I would want you on it just for that response alone! :-)