• Announcement Stars! game: Fledgling Admirals X (FA10) for complete begi

    From Altruist@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 17 11:44:53 2019
    Fledgling Admirals X (FA10)

    A straight short Stars! game for complete beginners, to lower intermediates, also for oldtimers (considering themselves beginner to lower intermediate).

    Since the difference between a complete beginner and a lower intermediate player is already quite a big one and to make the battleground even, players experienced in the mean combat vs other humans will have to leave some leftover points in the race
    wizard (see restrictions).

    Game Info
    # Players: 6 - 9
    # Skill level: beginner - lower intermediate
    # Version: 2.6 J rc4 (engl., used by autohost)
    # Autohost: Yes
    # Turn generation: 5 turns a week (Mo-Fr) up to year 2430, then 3 turns/week (Mo-We-Fr) as soon as requested by at least one player. Weekends and holidays off.
    # Host is playing: No
    # Universe size: small packed (240 stars in a 800x800-ly-universe), distant starting positions
    # Starting conditions: ACC BBS

    For further game rules and restrictions, please, look into our forum at Stars Autohost into the topic:
    # https://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&goto=63589&rid=775

    We aim to start the game in January.

    Regards,
    Altruist

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  • From Altruist@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 17 17:20:27 2019
    If you were a bit scared or even deterred from playing Stars due to all the problems involved when trying to set it up on a somehow recent operating systems, it has become quite easy...

    If you use Windows (64-bit) the easiest way to setup Stars will be just to download:
    # http://wiki.starsautohost.org/files/starswine4.zip by raptor (thanks a lot)

    Unpack it, start stars.bat and you are ready to go.
    If you have an old stars.ini with your prefered settings, just put it into ..\starswine4\otvdm\WINDOWS\Stars.ini (or rather replace the default one there).

    Further info:
    * StarsWine - Major update to new WINE engine
    # https://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&th=5622&start=0&rid=775

    Various other operating systems:
    * Stars Wiki: "Stars vs OS"
    # https://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Stars_vs_OS

    Topics within the autohost forums where you can also post questions:
    * Win7 (64bit)
    # https://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&th=4984

    * Win 10
    # https://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&th=5533&start=0&rid=775

    Regards,
    Altruist

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