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(...) What??? ====== Is this the same LFB who made this... (URL) Now, if you made a space ship with that dark gray... -JHK <http:/jhkruer.com (URL) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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(...) Oooh! A thread with colors, and HEY! .starship has over 100 posts now! :) Oh, and Lindsay, as for lack of brick, ABS-related CAD are allowed. You may use any scale you like (mini-fig-, micro-, nano-, macro-, etc.). As for your interjections, (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Heck no! Get in here :-) (...) I agree completely. (...) The tiers are more a guide to the GM and SMs, and other players. The propulsion tiers impact on galactic movement, but not much on in-sector movement (GM monitors and administers) (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, John P. Henderson wrotemore worthiness. (...) I guess I am (sorry :-). (...) I wonder even if we end up with a 'Full Jump Engine' setting, a 4th and super setting, of which we are each only allowed one. I appreciate your (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Hi! If I may interject, as someone who's mulling over joining up (unless my lack of any actual Brick at the moment is an intent-killer) and has read the rules as a fresh outsider: (...) This sounds fair. Otherwise, no significant gain is made by (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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David can't post to LUGNET yet, so I've done it for him. I'm so generous...:) Im still stuck here on the old board because I cant logon to LUGNET. Another thing we could do is Recharge Stations!! In the books Im basing my organization on recharge (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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Galactic Greetings! I have noticed that some of you and some of our associates have links pages on your websites. I invite any who are interested to include a link to the Starship site on their pages: (URL) you may use this image as a button, if (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, Richard Parsons wrote a bunch o' stuff. Hmm. Interesting thoughts. I am happy with the direction of this discussion thus far... (...) So you are proposing a re-write of the previously stated rules on Full JumpShips to (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, John P. Henderson wrote stuff. Currently: (...) Proposedly: (...) I don't want to cruel my own proposals to the Glorious Galactic Grand Guarantor, but (I do want to see good rules made that improve gameplay): These two (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Of course, of course. No sense bothering the Grand Galactic Generale with lowly commercial matters now is there? As agreed, if we end up thinking to apply this outside Port Block Yards Fleet Tenders, we'll start talking royalties ;-) Richard (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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(...) Well, technically, his engineers are looking at your ship's upgrade from Spraw, and if he negotiates with you to do so, he will take the plans and try to duplicate the engines. He is considering, for game-play fun, saying that they can't (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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(...) His society developing it? Richard, you know I expect a share out of this, right? :) Can't wait to get my Junk Ship zipping around on its new drive... -JHK (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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First of all: Oh my God! What happened to the text?! It's all...weird. Anyway... Very good explanation. It works very well. My ships have a modified form of this jumpdrive, but I don't use it in Starship. It's how I get across the galaxy in 5 (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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(...) (grins) It stems from our use of the term JumpGates. I honestly do not recall which of the participants first provided that particular term here in Starship, although surely it has been used in other Sci Fi before. But early during game (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) <remainder snipped> JumpShip? Hmmm...am I detecting the influence of the venerable GDW "Traveller" (the original one) here? :) I must find my copy of "High Guard." It's been too long. Hopefully one day I'll be able to take part in all of the (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Galactic Greetings! After a couple of emails between Richard and me, I thought I would bring this forward for the group... Definition: JumpShip: A JumpShip is any ship that carries its own JumpDrive, utilizing that same mysterious technology (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Ouch. Sorry to hear this my friend. Although we all understand that Real Life must take precedence over this hobby sometimes. We certainly hope you don't slip into a full-fledged or long-lasting dark age. ...I will keep your ships and sectors (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.general)
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Sup all, Don't know how much this affects anybody, but because of a lot of stuff I have to do now I have nearly no time for lego. I hope it won't become a dark ages but I prolly wont be around much anymore, if you could say I was in the first place. (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.general)
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I think I only sent to your Hotmail. Sending to your work now. ~Dan (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) No. Thanks anyway. Every email I have sent to you, you have recieved. Randomly changing things at my end is not indicated and is just a waste of time. There have been (as far as I know untested) rumours that yahoo accounts having difficulty (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Wanna try sending to lsa202@hotmailNOSPAM.com? ~Dan (...) (21 years ago, 24-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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JHK has quit Arbor. I let you know so you can begin his galactic emails and such. Wish he'd stayed, but he didn't. ~Dan (21 years ago, 24-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Nothing received from either of the addresses you identified to either of the addresses I gave you. Ever. <sits patiently looking up both pipes to see if anything is coming...> Very very strange. Richard Still baldly going... (21 years ago, 24-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Galactic Greetings! This week's galactic travel reports have been mailed out (as needed). Still sorry that some of the newer ships are not listed on the site yet. Still working on getting things bridged over. Those who have pics and all are being (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Both have been sent about 1 day or so after recieval. Problem on my end or yours? ~Dan (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Lsa202? That's intentional. I operate with many email addresses. Lsa202 is outgoing for Arbor. Lego_dan44 takes in Derelict and New Pacific emails. Demosthenesthegreat should be the new one, as I tried to once change lego_dan44, but no (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) I've recieved both. I've sent a lego_dan44 reply, not yet a demosthenes. Have you recieved lego_dan44? I'll send demosthenes reply ASAP. ~Dan (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Dan, I have also noticed some of your emails are coming from your LSA address. Or is that intentional and just from Arbor? -H. (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Sent something to both addresses Monday last. <sits patiently looking up the pipe to see if anything is coming...> Richard Still baldly going... (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Dudes and dudettes, You may have noted that the Spraw website indicates that it plans to host logs (or at the very least a suitable laudatory note in respect) of each of the vessels that partook in the Spraw experience. Sooooooo, if you are a Spraw (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) This will be done with the next site update. As stated before, the site is undergoing some changes, so if you don't see it right away don't worry. You can assume these changes have occured in game as soon as PBY has finished the upgrade IC. (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Two things: could you upgrade the Junk Ship's armor to medium and add a jump drive to it? I found the jump drive in Spraw and New Pacific Yards has agreed to affix it to the Junk Ship as well as upgrading the armor as part of the deal. And secondly- (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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I get the emails. I've replied to each one of them. I think the problem might be on your end. Send something to me at lego_dan44@yahoo.com and something at demosthenesthegreat@yahoo.com . I'll reply and see which one works. Like I said, the (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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...can you confirm that your email address on your Glimmer of Hope's registration is correct? 3 New Pacific action emails and no response has me thinking I'm sending them to an old unmonitored address. Richard Still baldly going... (21 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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I've sent the Arbor action emails. Thank you for your patience this week with how late I've been, skipping a week and all. Also, all participants, as stated in your emails, please do not delete the Team Name, Last Location, ect. area when replying. (...) (21 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) I echo the wisdom of other SMs in pointing out how it is Sector Mediators who govern how 'blowing things up' works out. There is a misconception to deal with, and that is that Starship is a combat game, which, for the bulk of us, it is not. It (...) (21 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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The best route to take would be to mention it in the rules. For example, a line in the rules might read, "By submitting a ship to be registered, a player agrees that the Ship Database Manager has rights to display, copy, store, and resize all images (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Galactic Greetings! Reports for galactic movement have been sent. Updates to the site are ongoing, but not ready to be public yet. I have included in this week's reports ships who have registered even though they are not pictured on the site yet. (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Oh, sorry. I haven't seen those pictures either. I think they're doubles of the ones he has now. And I see you're tired of typing Galactic Mediator Hendo. You're gonna kill me with these acronyms someday! ~Dan (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) board on May 2nd)... Visigoth As Red Legs Gettysburg Mars Jupiter Arcane Eclipse Falcon Eagle I didn't see them on his BS account. -GMH (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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No excuse when Rhode Islanders chuck the bird out the window. "Sorry, but we live in the smallest state, thus must do this to relieve anger on our many roads." LOL. ~Dan (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) :) Well, in their defense, it is the smallest state in the US and in an area with a lot of paved roads. Zig Zag Zig... ;) -H. (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Cool that you're back! (...) Not a problem. I figure my ships will come apart IRL after BrickFest this year, but will continue to exist in the game. That is the nice thing about having a photographic record of your MOCs. You can multiply the (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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I have no problem with IC posts, but long acronyms hurt mah head. :) ~Dan The one who lives in the state with the worst drivers, Booyah! (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Paging Mr. David L., :) Not sure if you saw my footnote in a previous post, but I need the URL of your pics for the ships you registered a week or two ago. I was not able to find them on my own. Thanks! -The Galactic Mediator (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Hey Sean, Well, we never really agreed to post IC items here. I am not against it provided they do not overwhelm things. I agree that reading one group is easier than bouncing all over the net trying to read things. How about a standardized (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Just had to...I do believe I told everyone I was a lunatic. :) ~Dan (The Living one) (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Wow. The dead post to Lugnet. That's a neat trick. ;P -H. (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) That's unfortunate about your ISP, but at least you can get an Access database. (...) I don't care at all. As long as you don't claim them as yours, I have no problem. (...) Well, I take it here everyone doesn't mind you putting thumbnails on (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Okay, So I've been thinking about some of the recent suggestions to A) keep down the disk space I dedicate to SS and B) increase the ease of adding new records to the registry. On the latter issue, I am building an Access database. My brother (a (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Who does? (...) I've talked to you about that stuff. Great job! (...) YAY! NO MORE SCHOOL! 17th and I'm gone! (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) USC scientists are uncovering that the entire Earth didn't blow up...only parts of North America were destroyed and other parts of the planet damaged, but thanks to the terraforming efforts of the ULF (Curt), Earth is now inhabitable again. (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Replies below... (...) Curt, Sean, I, and some others have already worked out the Earth/Sol situation. No problems there... (...) That's why I left most of Earth's history bare or in myth form. Also, USC scientists are uncovering that the entire (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) My ship was on the way to get authorization when we found the planet. And if you destroyed that ship, I was gonna try and commit genocide :D. (...) Gotta get authorized...when I feel like it. :) (...) ~Dan (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Personnally, I'd rather that Earth didn't blow up. After all, I am kind of fond of it :-) I think the best way to do it is that the real Earth was lost in the mists of time, and any one of the current "Terras" could be the real thing, or none of (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Hey there. I believe that this sort of thing is entirely up to the SMs (and in some rare cases, the GM). It entirely depends on how willing the SM is to let you get away with things. For example (a very long one, but bear with me), in Helix, (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(Not sure where in this thread to reply...) I have the possibly unique situation of having a detailed history of my homeworld (Valyance in the Val_Central Sector) that in no way includes any mention of a place called "Earth" or a solar system of the (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Ry is back! No, I do NOT like Eminem, either. :<P Anyway, nice to see we got a lugnet group! It sure makes life easier posting-wise. Down to business! * I have been asked about getting up a sector page for Nomad. I will be doing that soon, but if (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) In my storyline, it exists. In Arbor's storyline, it exists. ~Dan (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) ... Isn't earth alive again? Or is that a parallel universe we in? : ) Hasta la Vista, Sean (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Sup (...) Well, seeing as i wrote the rules, I figure I might give a hand here. The rules on the site are the best put way of describing the boring part. I guess I forgot to put in all that blowing stuff up part, but I thought that be obvious. (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Indeed. Your Sector 62 was quite the inspiration! (...) On the old message board, we had spent all last autumn discussing issue like this. Currency was one of the first items we put to a vote (as was the name of the game). There were several (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) I think Dan did a fine job of answering this. Basically, each Sector Mediator runs their own Sector/Adventure however they wish (provided they do not violate the rather basic Galatic Rules ((URL) Most SMs run their sectors much like Dan, using (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Welcome to Starship! I hope you join... Anyway, to answer your question: When a player (a person who creates a ship to adventure in someone's sector) wishes to enter a sector, the Sector Mediator states the rules of that particular sector. Some SMs (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Hi! I've been checking out the new Starship RPG game and i must say that I am very interested. One problem though, were are the rules for blowing things up?, can't seem to find them on the webpage. Thanks for yor help fellow fleet commanders! (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: The legendary Terran homeworld (Re: Prototype Starship Bible Work-in-Progress)
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Well, I purposely started in 2050 that way maybe we dodged a couple of disagreements. And my Terran history pertains only to North America until Earth explodes. I did that also so that other people who started on Earth could make up storylines for (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Very tricky, so that at the end of our historical record, in the dimly lit and dusty farthest reaches of our history, we may well disagree on where Earth actually is or what happened on it. Indeed, I bet some folks would happily wage war over (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Mmm, I think starting from the very beggining is a bit risky since some people's version of what happened might differ from other's. For example, many people's organisations would of evolved from an official Earth goverment in stress, and there (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) Actually, I think both issues are potential problems. I will look into the BS account option AND I will probably cut the registry into two or three pages. -GMH (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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(...) I think he meant that the page was too long, not that it took up too much hard drive. He wanted to divide the registries into different pages to sace space. -JHK (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Hendo, you once mentioned that the images and such for the Starship site are taking up a lot of space. Why don't you host the pictures on Brickshelf and link to them using HTML? Make a Brickshelf account and upload the pictures there. For instance, (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Over the past weekend when I was feeling ok to work, I made a preview of my Starship Bible for my Terrans, Mars Federation, Try'nexu, and more that are still to come. I've still got a lot of work to do, but summer's coming and I can do it then. (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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<snip> (...) Well, we already have a galactic currency. While some sectors don't use it, they must offer an exchanging system if they wish to use their own. (...) I'd love that! For example, Ship A has X amount of platinum chits. When they reach (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Hey Zac! Glad to see you're getting back into the whole RPG thing. Lemme tell you, even though I didn't get far in S62 (lol), it was still the greatest inspiration to Starship: Spraw. Without you, this whole thing never would have happened. As for (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Hi guys, Well after stumbling upon your nice new message board here on Lugnet I now see just how much the space RPG has progressed. And it's very delightful! Anyways I'm on holidays at the moment but I'm keen to join in and will start organising as (...) (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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Sup all, Should we start threads for our own specific sectors and teams if we want to use the lugnet board? that way all posts can be to that person and just renamed. LMK. Hasta la Vista, Sean (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: Registrations and SS Site Updates
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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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| | Registrations and SS Site Updates
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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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| | Re: Starship Bible
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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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| | Re: Hey Spacers!
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Starship Bible
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Starship Bible (was: Types of Sectors)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Starship homepage
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Starship homepage
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Love the thinking around the homepage Hendotron - nice work. Richard Still baldly going... (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Starship Bible
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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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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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 (...) (21 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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Starship Bible (was: Types of Sectors)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: ------( Welcome 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... (21 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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Re: Moving boards?
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| | Moving boards?
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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 (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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