Why Are you Here?

Please remember soon lol im dieing to find out about this game.

Ok, so I think I'm gonna miss stuff, it's been like 6 years since I played this, but yeah.

You take a sheet of graph paper and define each player's territories. You add things like asteroids for mining (each asteroid takes 1 square). You need to mine asteroids to build ships or improve your own. The you define the basic ships. If I remember right, your flagship could be anything, I usually chose a sovvie. A sovvie was 2 squares if memory serves and something smaller like a shuttle or miranda class 1 square.

Anyways, you deine how far each ship can travel per turn. If an object is in your way, then you can't travel on that square. You also have to define weapon's range. Anyways, you define how far things like torpedoes and phasers can go. When in range, you fire

Mining asteroids is as simple as going up to the asteroid and erasing it and adding its number to your total. When you have enough to buy another ship, you do so and try to build up your fleet so that you can crush your enemy. So it does become a strategy game as you have to get into the right position to do the most damage and can become very tricky sometimes.

Oh and if you add a wormhole, then it takes you to another sheet of graph paper

Sounds a lot like the starcraft board game it's pretty damn fun.

i wouldn't recommend getting it though, it costs somewhere around $60.

Yeah...mine was free, except the expense of pencils, erasers and graph paper

Sounds Fun

Ima try to play it, of curse i dont have anyone to play it with, lol, so singal player FTW, i will tell you how that turns out later, lol .

hmmm, i need to find graph paper, maby i can convince someone around the house to play it with me later, hmmmm, DW did you ever consiter starbases and construction facilities?

I don't remember

wouldnt this have taken an extreme amount of rubbing out every time you move a ship?

Yep

Deoran Drages wrote:rubbing out every time you move

Heh. Heh heh.

Some people never grow up

Have to say philly that was rather funny.

yeah but its still pretty funny

lol, fail....

I have come up with my own variation.

Klingons vs. Federation, lol.

My rules.

You move acrost the bored, each player starts with 4000 Minirals, random minirals will be placed on the bored.
You start with a starbase aswell, once all units are destroyed a player looses.

i even have an entire list of stats, for the klingons i have Bird of prey, D7, Vorcha, and Negh'Var, Starbase, Defient, Miranda, Galaxy, and Soverign. It kicks ass but no one will play it with me......

Technically we could al play an internet version of it, lol, upload a new map every time its your turn.

Actually...that ain't a half bad idea. I may tinker with that tomorrow

So This game Is basically a more advanced form of Battleships?

Ish, this one actually requires strategy because you can see where your opponent is. Think of it as a low tech multi player of Broken Mirror

Or more so of romulan wars or startrek armada.

Woah, if you write this out, I will play for sure!

(perhaps we could have a gameboard image that we each modify and then post to make moves. IDK, you're DW. I'm sure you'll think of something.)

Yeah...we already said that, about a gameboard and whatnot

yeah, and we could all take turnes, i could be like Romulans, and like you could be like the klingons, and DW could be the federation, and like some other people can be some other races, lol .

i call borg!

I call klingons!

You can have more than one player per team too BTW

I Call Cylons, No wait wrong Sci-fi.

Well, maybe I'll make a couple version should the trek one take off

I call romulans. lol.

You already said that...

maybe we'll just wait and call them when the game is up.

Which it's somewhat close, the board looks kinda cool and I'm using BM2 ships for the sprites

oh, sweet cant wait

this will be epic

i hope it is done by tomorrow when i get back on!

It should be

Are you just making a File in PS, or are you actually making a Flash game for this?

It's gonna be multiple PNG images

Oh, Well that makes sense...I think.

I think we need our own topic for this, lol .

The game will be really fun, question, how will we play, we just edit the pic, like does it matter what we use, like i dont have (well know how to use) photoshop...so yeah, lol.

Download Gimp....

Again, no, i cant it wont run on my computer, and i dont know how to use it.

Do not worry, I will post instruction and rules when I post the board. I'll probably make it a flash file eventually by downloading the CS5 trial, then all you'll have to do is drag and drop and then screen shot, I think...

So it will be like Starship constructer, cool , that will take alot of dragging and dropping.

Yeah, only problem is when other people edit...hmmmm...yeah nvm, talking to myself here

well, then why not make it so you can upload an old version, like you save the map, and you can load it again later, as a flash application, like you can save the map, then drag and drop, and thats all you have to do, when one person moves, you just move the ship to its position.

That's an awful lot of work I will have to do and what happens when my 30 day trial runs out?

Well i ment post the SWF file somewere so we can all acces it, then it loads indevidually like ft-bm.

but then would we all need to know flash to access it? or just the person updating it or something? idk, ive never used flash before...

Don't listen to EP, he has no clue what he's talking about and doesn't understand the problem even on a basic level.

The game will work as a punch of image files the people will drag and drop using whatever graphics program they want, from Paint to Photoshop

it actually will sorta be like BMSC... cool!

Paint doesn't have a drag & drop action.

Yes it does.