Posted by: "Fred Kiesche" godel2escher2bach@... ... I worked for a guy, and in figuring bids for him, we always put in a ten percent profit margin. That...
... It's not the game companies' obsession, it's the distributors. [snip] ... Yeah, they sent my order to my old address, NOT the address I input during the...
Greetings: "I *tried* to order, and the server kept kicking my card number out. I even called, no call-back YET...." I had the same problem--wouldn't take my...
... Naw, I'm avoiding 'document.writeln("Next Message >");' Yahoo! as much as possible these days. We're covering this in the I3M google group and avalanche...
Hello: If I had to guess, the whole idea of a "series" is a production cost-cutting tool, as well as a marketing tool. Other companies have employed the series...
... A recurring theme in the story is that many people liked _Imperium_ and most of them had "lots of great ideas" about how to make it better. My own...
... There's no reason for the Imperial player not to lose a war, other than being FAPed. When one side can control exactly how long each match lasts then they ...
... Either this changed in the new version, or I am not remembering something. The degree of control the Imperial player could exercise was no where near this...
Posted by: "Brian McCue" brianmccue@... ... Funny, but when I worked for a tile contractor, we got by with a 10 percent markup - we only lost our ass...
Count your blessings, all: at least you HAVE game stores, however few they may be, to suck or not :-\ There is zilch within 150 miles (at least) of where I am....
I've been toying with the idea of running a PBEM Blind Stellar COnquest Game. For such an adventure, I'd need four to seven brave souls. The rules would be...
I ran such a game from January 2003 to July 2004, it was alright. Sure, count me in. I still have the e-mail records, if you don't get a quorum let me know. I...
You are my first player to sign up, the second signed up today. Feel free to send me anything you have regarding a PBEM game, what house rules you were using,...
Greetings: I haven't played SC in (mumble mumble) years. Have to dig out my copy. Can you explain more about how you'd run it? Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are...
... I'm interested, but have no experience with the game -- though I am willing to die valiantly at the hands of the other players. Is this a problem? -...
Not a problem. Do you have a copy of the game? Shane bsongy <bsongy@...> wrote: ... I'm interested, but have no experience with the game -- though I am ...
I'll have to get back to you in a day or two on that. Busy day for me here, but basically I think were looking at two turns a week, with excellerated turns at...
You'll need to decide whether to use original Metagaming rules or the Avalon Hill version (not that I remember a difference.) I seem to recall that was an...
Greetings: You might want to look through the archives and see the PB(Electronic)M WarpWar game that Henry Cobb ran. There might be some things there you can...
Greetings: "Lastly, since this is a "Warpwar" list. Were you going to adopt a Warpwar combat system for the tactical battles (off map) or stick to the Stellar ...
What I did was use 4 (four) separate spreadsheets to keep track of the 4 players. Since I also ran it blind. So only the player received his own spreadsheet....
Greetings: Put them up, if you want. If anybody hollers, we'll take them down. I think I have a .txt version, but I can't be sure if they they are AH or MG....
There is one other difference between the MG and AH rules. In the MG rules growth of colonies comes after Production while AH rules growth comes before...
The following Rules would be used for the proposed stellar conquest game: New tech trees as found in this article (still subject to change). HOW TO CRACK A...
