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- From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
- Subject: Re: New STARFIRE revision
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- Organization: FSU nuclear physics
- References: <rreed.2z4e@terapin.com> <v3nr9s+@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:39:06 GMT
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- In article <v3nr9s+@lynx.unm.edu> kogoma@triton.unm.edu (Taki Kogoma) writes:
- >In article <rreed.2z4e@terapin.com> rreed@terapin.com (Rick Reed) writes:
- >>Let me just start out by saying that I think TFG unnecessarily added much too
- >>much to what used to be a simple system! I think the SFB mentality crept in
- >>too much in this latest revision...
-
- >>There are a heck of a lot more rules, but I can't possibly remember them
- all!
- >>Egad!! I think I prefer the 2nd edition rules. The manual's introduction
- >>states, "Old STARFIRE hands will find it does many of the things the older
- >>games did in different ways, but they will still recognize the
- >>clean "feel" of
- >>the system." Yeah, right! TFG may have another SFB on their hands!!!
- >
- >Wait until they revise the strategic system...I also wonder if they'll
- >ever get around to printing TerraFire and GroundFire?
- >
- >>
- >> -Rick
- >
-
- A friend of mine that played the older versions says there is not much
- that is new, the d10's are the biggest change. The only differences he
- noted were things to clean up some old patches. Of course, he had every
- published change or addition in existance. As for another SFB, it would
- take major work to bring Starfire up to the complexity of SFB. The lack
- of SSD's and Energy allocation make it an order of magnitude easier than
- SFB even if you were to add an equal number of rules.
-
- I heard someone talking about a vector movement system, does anyone know
- anything about this?
-
-
- Roger
- books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
-