Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO

From: ac719@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Paul Brown)

Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Bret and Jill Wood (jwood@teleport.com) wrote:
: In article <4nvqeo$2if@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
: mystro <cg@primenet.com> wrote:

: Well, considering that the Stars! mailing list is run by Andrew Sterian,
: I would imagine that at least ONE stars player has played with Phost.  :)
: You list all of these addons, _but_ Stars! will never have many of these
: types of addons because it already allows you to choose the starmap
: paramaters for every game,

Big deal, that can be done just as easy with PlanMap for VGAP

: it has excellent AI, and it doesn't have a

Who needs AI? Who plays with AI? I'd much rather be playing
against a human opponent than a computer

: deficient user interface in need of repair.  Stars! has just begun
: compared to VGAP which has been around for almost (?) a decade.

I tried out stars, and have found these blaring faults.
	-as far as I know, its windows only. Let me clue you in what many
people think... Windoze SUCKS! Granted, many people like windows, but
with VGAP, you can take your choice.
	-user interface? So its good, who cares... vgap is fairly
reasonable.... and its NOT WINDOZE!

: Right now I enjoy VGAP more than Stars!, because VGAP has an intangible
: quality to the gameplay which makes it really fun.  But, considering
: that Stars! is being developed by several excellent programmers (at
: least one of whom used to work on the Excel program for Microsoft) who
: are extremely receptive to suggestions from players, and who are very
: open about their progress, I think it is inevitable that Stars! will
: develop into a game that is superior to VGAP in all ways.  (Except for
: number of add-ons :)

Exactly, the qualty of gameplay. I noticed you failed to mention
that STars! was better. Vgap planets has tonnes of special missions for
ships, races, planets, and who knows what else. VGAP also has a wide
range of possibilites (if I'm not mistaken ) with TEd York's Design games.
Asside from things like productivy, how many specials missions are there
for the races? Such as super Spy, DArk sense, rebel ground assault? Not
many, if any at all.

: I think that the main reason VGAP is dominant over Stars! is because of
: the gaming experience of the programmer, and because it has had much
: longer to develop a following.  No matter how many insults people here
: sling at Stars!, it will eventually become VGAP's most serious
: competition.

Not to mention that they already had the kind to copy off of.
	Someone else mention that there would be addons, for stars. Even
the implementing of the VGAP races! Well, stars has copied a lot so it
might as well just finish the job.
	To hell with Stars!
	Long live da King, VGAP!

References

Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
hermes@rtd.com (Robert Dejournett)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
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
jwood@teleport.com (Bret and Jill Wood)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
hermes@rtd.com (Robert Dejournett)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
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
jwood@teleport.com (Bret and Jill Wood)
Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000