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Minnesota must have been in the back of the line when God distributed the BrikWars players over the U.S. So far, I've only been able to play with my brother and my cousin. It gets lonely. Although there have been some interesting situations... Once, (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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(...) I will look into my ISP and see if they will allow for this. Perhaps you and I should chat by email. I really would appreciate your help. I think a database might be something I will need sooner than later. (Actually taking a class at work (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Starship RPG
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(...) Hi Mike, and thanks for your interest. I am going to try to answer most of your questions, but I ask all other participants to help with these answers too. (...) Even though I played a roll in the development of this game, I have been equally (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Mmm, good questions. I guess these would need to be answered eventually on the behalf of many people. Basically, Starship is a very free form game in which one sends ships to different adventures ('sectors'). The sector mediator, who 'controls' each (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Hi guys, I've been interested in this Starship game for quite awhile now, looks like there's a good amount of excitement about it, but I've never been able to quite figure out exactly what it was. I'm sure everything starts to make sense once you're (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) It probably could nowadays; LEGO Legal's attitude towards fan web pages has definitely lightened up quite a bit since BrikWars first came out. It used to seem like the barest mention of the word "LEGO" in a website resulted in immediate (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Don't get me off on the benifits of storing data in a MySql database in which you just enter the specs and builder and then can select all or just a player without making different pages. PHP is cool- it can generate the HTML for you based on (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Galactic Greetings! First Point: I want to announce quickly to any new readers of this group that you may register as a new player at any time by emailing me or posting to this group with your ship or sector info. To better understand, check out... (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Well, you know, it doesn't have to be a 2000-page document. I could hammer out 15 or 20 paragraphs easy on Helix. Every one or two could cover different aspects of the places and things. SMs might only give information to be written up by the (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Weekend Reports 05/09/03
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Galactic Greetings! This weekend's Galactic Travel emails have gone out to those who have arrived somewhere new. (My Derelict reports are out too, finally.) I hope to do some updating on the SS site tonight. I know there are some links to be updated (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Brikwars Battle: The Battle for Stupid Hill
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I just finished the writeup for the Brickwar that I had with my little brother. It was under the Summer 2000 Rules, but we didn't bother with Construction Points. (URL) are over 3mb of images on this next page, so be prepared to wait a while. (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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(...) If I recall correctly, the issue is the use of the LEGO name for a product that could potentially harm the LEGO brand. That is, BrikWars is a game of violence and destruction, and LEGO doesn't (didn't) produce toys with a violent and (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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I noticed something on the BrikWars site the other night that caught my eye. It was the specific reference to the fact that the LEGO(r) trademark (and presumably other toy brick trademarks) had not been used in the instructions of the game, so as to (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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"Hendo (John P. Henderson)" <hendo@valyance.com> wrote in message news:HEFMG5.24s7@lugnet.com... (...) played (...) Congrats Hendo! I'd probably have more to say about this game if I'd ever really played an RPG like this. I'm making a note to check (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) I agree that offering material for an SS Bible should be a voluntary thing on the part of any SM or player. It is not a requirement to participate in the game. If an SM doesn't have time or energy to devote to giving such a detailed (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Yes, it is interesting sometimes. ...FYI, in the game Traveller, the premise is that all the humans descended from earlier space explorers from Earth, but that thousands (millions?) of years have passed since they colonized the distant worlds (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Thanks! As it turns out, editing the sidebar is *really* easy. So if you have any ideas or suggestions of other things I might do, just let me know. One thing I had considered was a Ship Building Guide or something, but then I noticed that the (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Love the thinking around the homepage Hendotron - nice work. Richard Still baldly going... (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Hmmmmm. I'd be a little hesitant about this. It presents quite a barrier to new SMs to have to flesh all this sort of detail out in advance if the SMs have to do it themselves, and it seems to me if a player was up for doing this sort of (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) I actually suggested an idea like this on the original Starship Spraw board. I offered it as an explanation for having multiple "Earths", but I was unaware this idea was used anywhere else. Well, maybe I suspected it. It's interesting to see (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Hi, very nice idea to create it with bricks ;) thnx. Kai (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.gaming)
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Brikwars is played by several members of WAMALUG in Washington, DC. Most often, though, games are held when our Pond-hopping member makes school-vacation trips back from England. By default, I have become the defacto GM for these games. I write (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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| | Derelict Delay
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To those in the Grave Belt Sector: I do apologize, but I must impose a one week delay on the Derelict adventure emails (those that are already a few days late from me). Let's just assume an ion storm is passing, causing all local ships to remain in (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Starship Bible (was: Types of Sectors)
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(...) Yup. :) Already, it would have been easy to miss Richard's post to this thread (buried deeply on the other board), but here it is easy to notice. ...I am just waking up, so I may reply more to this later... A few initial thoughts: (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) <snip-a-dee-doo-da> (...) Yes, it is nice to be on good ol' Lugnet! And why don't we have a "bible"? The SMs have to put together their sectors from nothing, so there is certainly no lack of imagination in this group! Some sort of Galactic (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, Todd Lehman writes about the creation of the newsgroup. Thanks dude. Richard Still baldly going... (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Types of Sectors (Long post)
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In Reply to: Types of Sectors posted by Galactic Mediator Hendo on May 05, 2003 at 13:34:16 (...) I'm not sure that this analysis really maps the dimensions of the differences. Specifically, I don't think that "Trade and Social Gameplay" indicates (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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"Dylan Jambrek" <Whassup53221@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HEG0Cn.13up@lugnet.com... (...) got (...) crazy (...) some (...) in (...) yet (...) troop (...) movement (...) Wow. The only fun memories I have are my trooper failing a shot and (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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(...) I live in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a county next to Milwaukee. I first got hooked on Brikwars when Evan Butzlaff(Cudahy, Milwaukee Suburb Resident) got me to go to Gencon, in which I played a 2 huge games with James Seibert, Chris Weeks and Evan. (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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(...) -snip- (...) The good thing, on the other hand, of having a member only board, is the fact that no longer will we have to deal with spammers who have nothing to do with our game. I dont think to many people would object to our being IC as long (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) That layout almost looks like it's not made from LEGO. :) The reason I mean this to be complimentary is that it's just so clean and smooth looking. It looks not unlike a commercially produced game, where the pieces have been molded in exactly (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.gaming)
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"Todd Lehman" <tsl@tsl.bu.edu> wrote in message news:HEEHEs.pxB@lugnet.com... (...) play. (...) I won the battle. The sides were a little off, because we didn't bother with the CP. We used the summer 2000 rules, and there was lots of destruction! (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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(...) Here's how I see it: I am a Lugnet freak. The format and layout of Lugnet newsgroups are my prefered means of communication (second only to in-person meetings), and I tend to spend an unreasonable amount of time (and certainly most of my (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Sup all, Now that we got this starship board on lugnet, are we moving off of creationcenter? Let me know... Hasta la Vista, Sean (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Notes from the Curator
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Galactic Greetings! FYI, Todd has set me up as the curator of this group. I will be reading through some how-to pages for the format that Lugnet pages use and thereafter setting up a few things on the .starship sidebar. If there are any suggestions (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Galactic Greetings!
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Welcome to lugnet.gaming.starship! Starship RPG is a system of related role-play by email games where particpants base their adventures around Lego® Space creations. Anyone with internet access and the ability to build ABS (or ABS-CAD) spaceships is (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: Instructions for the Cathedral Board Game
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(...) it. His was inspiration for mine. Pictures of my version in the brick can be see here: (URL)My own version that I made months ago can temporarily be seen here: (...) I think green looks nice, and might have gone with that myself, except I (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) (URL) own version that I made months ago can temporarily be seen here: (URL) only significant differences are those on the cathedral piece itself (mine is very cross-like, esp. from above, and much shorter), and my playing field is green (as (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Aw, there must be some BayLUG people who'd wanna try a game out sometime... Maybe a tech-level Trains :-) I've always wanted to see train-jousting. (...) So who won? :-) What version did you play and how'd it go? --Todd (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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"Todd Lehman" <tsl@tsl.bu.edu> wrote in message news:HEEBpy.B7z@lugnet.com... (...) last (...) that) (...) play. (...) I live near Sacramento, CA. Not much happens here. So far I've only had one battle, and that was with my little brother. -- (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.glug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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