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Reply to Stardock response to Paul and Fred [UPDATE] in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="NightShadowPT" reply="267" id="3708632"] F&P are no saints, but I still feel their agreement proposal summary is much closer to the original document than Stardock's. [/quote] I agree. Stardock agrees that the summary is very close to Stardock's original proposal. But that's the summary. The actual details are a lot darker. You could say (as you did) I'm sure P&F have no bad intentions, but the simple matter is that the proposal (not the summary)

Reply to It's A Kind Of Magic! in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Prof_Hari_Seldon" reply="3" id="3708545"] Which do you believe: Copenhagen Interpretation (your "living universe" that decoheres when you observe it, see Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment) [/quote] Just a quick jump-in: The entire point of "Schrödinger's Cat" wasn't to highlight that theory, it was to show how ridiculous he thought the theory was. The idea that the cat could exist in a superstate until its state was measured was, to him, s

Reply to Stardock response to Paul and Fred [UPDATE] in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="NightShadowPT" reply="262" id="3708544"] > Quoting Frogboy, reply 258 > You will see that their *summary* (though not actual document) is similar to what we proposed and they rejected back in October before the lawyers were involved. They rejected that. So you have reached an agreement after all... why not accept it, even if coming a bit late? At this point, Stardock is just looking like a vindictive company that cannot work things out like

Reply to SCO Mothership in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Oh my god, all you've done is move your ranting about SFB to another thread. This is an SCO Mothership topic. Lets keep it on topic. PLEASE make a new forum post called "Starcon is just SFB and here's why" so that I can completely ignore it and not have to come across your rants in every single thread.

Reply to Star Control: So you want to build a planet? in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

[quote who="Donnicton" reply="7" id="3708093"] I'm hoping that if you're going to have that many planets, you're not also going to feature a hard calendar deadline for game over like SC2 did. I loved SC2, but I really felt the hard deadline grated against the exploratory aspect of it, especially if you're playing blind for the first time and don't have clear direction on where to go. [/quote] You'll be pleased to know that this is the case. Brad has said several t

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

Kavik, The difference is that nobody (and I do mean nobody) except you cares about any link between Starcon and SFB. We're talking about SC1/2 and SCO. NOBODY HERE CARES about SFB. Please, for the love of god, stop going on and on about it in 10 paragraph long posts. Sorry dude. But you just need to stop. We don't care.

Reply to Fleet Battle: Dedicated Server with Tools in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I agree, although, and frankly, online fleet battles are nice and all but the game is about the adventure game and in that context the fights will all be local against the AI. So I'm not too stressed about latency in online fights since they're a "nice to have" rather than a defining feature of the game (IMO, anyway). (and it'll presumably be fixed at some point)

Reply to Fleet Battle: Dedicated Server with Tools in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Yeah, I had a couple of games earlier with Thiima and there was a >1 second lag on all my key presses. Basically unplayable :-(

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

Kavik, I get that you're passionate about SFB, I really do. But StarCon and other similar games (Starflight et al) have a pedigree that goes all the way back to Space War, which came out in 1962, SEVENTEEN YEARS BEFORE Star Fleet Battles was first released in 1979. If anything, SFB ripped off Space War. I'l acknowledge that a lot of the ship designs etc in Starcon bear a lot of resemblance to SFB, and maybe there was some IP theft going on, but all you've been going on

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

[quote who="chapel976" reply="135" id="3707953"] why the hell are we talking about Star Fleet Battles so often? Did Spacewar rip off SFB too? [/quote] Oh god, now you've done it... (ducks)

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="126" id="3707934"] Quoting Larsenex, reply 124 So if I may ask, what is the correct response to P&R's tweet above? There is what Frog wants to respond with vrs what is the correct response.... what is the correct one? They deleted it after I told them it w

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

> So if I may ask, what is the correct response to P&R's tweet above? There is what Frog wants to respond with vrs what is the correct response.... what is the correct one? I wouldn't bother getting into a shit slinging match. You're not going to convince any of the hard cores by contradicting the kool-aid they've been drinking for a while now. Besides, the truth will come out ev

Reply to The state of the Lander in modern games in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="15" id="3707921"] Frogboy, is planetary landing going to look *that* nice when it comes out? That little screen-shake as the lander departs for the surface is friggin' incredible. Really adds personality to the whole thing. And such a smooth transition!! And the way the sky comes into view and then changes to night? Please tell me this is all in-game, or will be. [/quote] It already does (mostly) look that

Reply to Star Control: So you want to build a planet? in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this!

Reply to The state of the Lander in modern games in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="13" id="3707904"] It was all game assets but rendered externally [/quote] The trees and mountain/rocks looked really nice. Lighting needed work (it's better now), but those features and the look of the canyon etc were awesome.

Reply to The state of the Lander in modern games in Star Control StarControl Forums

I had forgotten that gameplay teaser. Was that just a rendered animation then? Because the planet looked really good.

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

[quote who="tingkagol" reply="91" id="3707735"] It's akin to stepping on your neighbor's grass and losing your entire house as penalty. [/quote] Paul and Fred aren't stepping on Stardock's grass. They're trying to pull it out by the roots and salt the earth and then claim that it was Stardock's fault all along for stealing their grass. Except it wasn't Paul and Fred's grass to start with. It was Activisions, and Stardock bought that grass from Activision quite legall

Reply to Star Control: The Multiverse thread in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="Prof_Hari_Seldon" reply="45" id="3707747"] I'm just saying I think Ghosts of the Precursors won't agree that the Precursors evolved in the SC:O universe. [/quote] I suspect that at this point there is little chance of GotP being canon with anything else, *assuming it even happens*. I'm not convinced there was ever any actual plans to make it, but I've said as much before and there's no point starting that whole discussion up again.

Reply to Star Control: The Multiverse thread in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="ShadeDark" reply="23" id="3707592"] But that's leads me to think of a retcon, maybe the races like the Tywom and Scryve, DID exist in the original SC:1,2,3 Universes, but each were, destroyed by the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah/Dnyarri rule[/quote] I like this. This should be canon. We were told there were a bunch of destroyed/slave shielded races we never met in SC2. There's no reason they couldn't have been SCO races. Even the Scryve were defeated.

Reply to Star Control: The Multiverse thread in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="18" id="3707586"] We refer to the Origins universe as the prime universe because it is the only one, that we know of, that you can travel to other universes from. [/quote] How do you get back, then? Or does travelling through an origin wormhole leave the wormhole open behind you so you're not trapped there?

Reply to The state of the Lander in modern games in Star Control StarControl Forums

As far as I understand the adventure builder, yes they could. From what we've been told you can create adventure triggers on pretty much anything, time based, encountering something or someone, etc. No reason why certain planets can't have an adventure trigger based on encountering a 2010 monolith or driving to the top of the tallest mountain (invisible proximity trigger at that mountain peak) etc. I'm really looking forward to seeing adventure construction in action and getting my te

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

[quote who="Elestan" reply="78" id="3707203"] You really should play SC2. [/quote] Hey, we agree on something! Yes, Larsinex, you should go and play SC2 (via the free Ur-Quan Masters project). It's pretty awesome.

Reply to Founders Status: March 2018 in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="The FOO" reply="4" id="3707202"] Just to clarify, I meant besides the fleet battles beta test that's currently available. [/quote] Fleet Battles is the only beta at the moment. There is no beta of Adventure Mode yet.

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

Oh, I don't get an opinion? I should just use yours? OK, gotya.

Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

I'm not convinced there's even going to BE a GotP. It's been 25 years, you might think they might have found some time in the last 25 years to doodle at least an idea or two about a possible next game on a napkin. But no, there's nothing at all, they have literally not started a single thing for a sequel/new game, and yet chose to jump in with their threats and lawsuits right as SCO's hype was starting to get to decent levels (and have managed to curtail that very effectively - nobody in the