Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO

From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)

Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

mystro <cg@primenet.com> wrote:
>Stars players are always trying to compare their little game to the king of
>Spacewar multiplay games VGA-PLANETS.

Whoa now, the king of spacewar multiplayer games is by all means Netrek.

Of course, it's of an entirely different flavor than Stars, MoO, or VGAP
(real-time sports style action/strategy vs. PBeM turn based strategy), but our
apples are waaaaaayy better than your oranges :)

[rest of knee-jerk flame deleted]

Your argument here seems to be that VGAP is better than stars because of all
the 3rd party support available.  While some would opine that much of the 3rd
party stuff exists simply to cover the glaring deficiencies in the basic
planets programs, I'll concede your point here.

However, what happens in 6 months, or a year?  Stars has a growing player base.
Some of those players like to program.  What cosmic mindblock is preventing
them from writing their own add-ons, given time?

The other big argument the planets people seem to have against Stars is that it
lacks flavor.  However, given the inevitable Stars add-ons, and the fact that
races in that game are very customizable, how long do you think it will take
for someone to put the TV/movie races into a Stars game?  Hell, what's stopping
someone from putting the Planets races directly into Stars?

IMHO, the best thing that could happen to both games is for the respective
authors to put the Stars interface on VGA Planets 4.0.  Why not get the best of
both worlds?
--
	    Alec Habig, Indiana University High Energy Astrophysics
		       ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu
		   http://www.astro.indiana.edu/home/ahabig/
	  Ban the Bomb: Make the world safe for conventional warfare!

References

Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
"<your name>" <"<your e-mail>"@wpo.sosc.osshe.edu>
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
cg@primenet.com (mystro)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
hermes@rtd.com (Robert Dejournett)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
"<your name>" <"<your e-mail>"@wpo.sosc.osshe.edu>
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
cg@primenet.com (mystro)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
hermes@rtd.com (Robert Dejournett)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000