Re: Starlord

From: purtill@athena.mit.edu (Mark Purtill)

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 1990 21:23:45 +0000

In article <2677@rex.cs.tulane.edu>, rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael
Rawdon) writes:
> Does anyone know anything about a pbm game called Starlord?

I think StarLord is being run by Flying Buffalo, Inc. (P.O.
Box 1467, Scottsdale, AZ -- 70030.240@CompuServe.COM). I believe that
FBI licensed the game from a company in England, who are presumably
also still running it.
	As far as changes, well, it's probably not as cheap as it used
to be.  When I was playing, also about five years ago, they made some
minor rules changes.  I don't know how much they affected the game,
since I was wiped out shourtly there after :-(.
	For those who don't know, the idea of the game is that you are
a StarLord in a collapsing star Empyr (sic).  You have one command
ship, that you are on at all times, and large numbers of other,
ordinary ships.  The catch is that you can only order your other ships
that are within 7(?) units of your command ship.  There are about 50
players to a game, and as they are wiped out or drop, they are
replaced by new players at new base stars.  The idea is to become
emperor by capturing the throne star at the center of the rather
large galaxy, because then you get to play for free until someone
takes the throne star away from you.
	Its a reasonably fun, fairly simple game with nice color
printouts.  My main complaint was that there was no enought player
interaction, which is waht the new rules I mentioned were supposed to
fix.

Mark Purtill
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((")) \@_: Dept. of Math., MIT 2-229, Cambridge, MA 02139; (617)623-6238

References

Starlord
rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Fri, 30 Mar 1990 00:41:23 +0000