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Political Upheaval in Helix Sector!!!
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Date: 
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:04:48 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, Andrew Engstrom wrote:
Ummm, guys, I don't know how else to say this, but the current Helix
adventure is no longer running.  What with mix-ups, crashes, and deleted
files, things are too screwed up to continue.  I'm sorry for letting all
you guys down.  I *may* restart the current adventure at a later date,
but probably not.  Sooooo, Hendo, if you don't mind a few more deep-space
travelers next week....

What's this you say?  There has been a coup in Helix?  And a new and brutal
militaristic regime come to power?  And it wants all outworlders gone from the
sector?  On pain of being fired upon without warning?  And they're looking for
us now?  And they're confiscating ships and imprisoning crews?

And their gaols have NO PRETZELS?

HES Rebecca is out o' there!

And we didn't do all that badly, scoring a rather hefty and entirely recoverable
starship to add to the ranks of New Pacific freighters.

Very sad still.  We look forward to the time when the political situation
stabilises and we can return to Helix.

Well, you can stay in Helix if you want, but you'll get no action emails
for a long while :-)  That's the bad news.  Now on to the good news!

However, while I'm taking a short sabbatical from Starship SMing, I'll be
planning a new adventure for the sector.  I want some player input, so
please take the short survey below:

(1) Should the game be story-oriented, or *more* freeform?

I liked the game, and the improvements on Spraw just fine.

(2) How much should the game depend on technology/items/etc found in-game?
(relates to above question)

Finding technology can have impacts outside the Helix sector, which might be
badness for the Starship game as a whole.  Needing to find documents, codes,
sensor readings, bulletins from the right parts of Fleet Command blah blah, this
is good.

(3) Would you like a different/modified map for the game?

I always find maps that include starless planets a bit strange, but I fully
appreciate that that's just me.  It seems to me a map should detail stars and
systems, and navigational objects, rather than simply planets and moons.  levels
of details about what you do there and what you scan etc can be sorted iin
action emails.

(4) How much In-Character interaction would you like to have?

Buckets

(5) How would you make the Action Email form better?

I think its fine as it is.

Well, that's all.  If you have any questions regarding the new Helix
adventure, or anything else, really, feel free to ask.

Thanks for your understanding on my utter failure,

One does not always have complete control over the in-sector political
situation.  Don't be hard on yourself.  I haven't even attempted an adventure in
new Pacific or Spraw...

and for your input on the next adventure.

Once things are straightened out...."I'll be back!"

Does this mean that the Errant Kangaroo and the Magellan are setting down on the
nearest planets in New Pacific, putting down their starship tools and starting
dirt scratching colonies?

Richard
Still baldly going...
(insert glorious ftx sig here)



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  Re: Political Upheaval in Helix Sector!!!
 
In lugnet.gaming.starship, Richard Parsons wrote some nice things. (...) Strange, isn't it? They must be some kind of barbarians! (...) No, I'm still playing as a player-only. I'll get right to those latest action emails! I think I missed last (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)

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Ummm, guys, I don't know how else to say this, but the current Helix adventure is no longer running. What with mix-ups, crashes, and deleted files, things are too screwed up to continue. I'm sorry for letting all you guys down. I *may* restart the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)

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