Re: Starfire was Re: DS2 Balance and stuff.

Laserlight  wrote:

>Oerjan answered:
>>With lots of paperwork. Ask any veteran Starfire campaign
>>gamer - I don't really qualify as a veteran, having only played that
>>game for 15 years or so...
> 
> "How many turns have you completed?"
> <vbg>

In the longest-running Imperial Starfire campaign I've played in,
somewhere around 200 with no computer support. I know several
paper-administred campaigns which has run for longer than that, too...
anything is possible when you're a fanatic, I guess :-/

>Explanation, or exculpation: I bought both Starfire and Imperial
>Starfire a while ago--5 years? Maybe more, I don't think I had a
>computer when I bought it.  The version I bought was, mmm,
>paperwork intensive.  Oerjan, it's my understanding y'all have
>substantially overhauled the system to make it more playable?

You bought the worst version for paperwork - after player requests had
made the designers inflict massive bookkeeping detail on the game, but
before player requests had made them take it out again. Or, rather, had
made *us* take it out again, since there was a change of ownership
inbetween. FWIW, I had the same campaign system (Imperial Starfire),
getting into the game just after New Empires had gone OOP.

Yes, we've done our best to reduce paperwork - by 80-90% or so. Even
so, you still often want computer support when the player empires are
several hundred inhabited star systems in size and there are a score of
non-player races running around as well :-/
 
Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
- Hen3ry