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Looking for casual players to play Distant Stars (best mod imo)

Looking for casual players to play Distant Stars (best mod imo)

I really Like Distant Stars, and would love to play it online with people, I love huge maps but I am willing to play anything.  I live in the Eastern Time zone of the US and have a huge window of avalibilty so if anyone else is interested drop me a line.  Hope to hear from someone :D

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Reply #26 Top

thats the plan.

Edit: ooh... second page... meaning 1/2 the people wont ever look at the first page...

so... for those thatdont know yet... DS mod game oct 17 (today) at 10 pm forum time. (thats 7 hours and 40 min from the time stamp on this post

Reply #27 Top

wqill be there, hopefully I wont be drawn too much into the kotor2

note to self set alarm clock

Reply #28 Top

You will be there, under pain of modding things beyond your control. muhahahahahaha

Reply #29 Top

thats 3... anyone else care to rsvp?

Reply #30 Top

just remember to have the original 0.895 DS activated only checksum 34832576

Reply #31 Top

dododo... game in 4 hours from this post... get your lreal life done now so you can play with us! (whoever you are! we dont care! just dl the mod! and lets do this shizz.)

Reply #32 Top

lol, Ryat your coming right? I need my fellow TEC commander with is Caps of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

 

Reply #33 Top

hope so, internet is a going a bit wonky (figures two weeks of running great and now it goes wonkyX| )

Reply #34 Top

NOOOOO!!!!!! I blame kotor2....:hrmph:

Reply #35 Top

It has seemed to have stabilized

hmmmm Caps of DOOOOM!!

32 Kols? Marzas? Dunovs? Sova?

 

Reply #36 Top

Are we meeting in the usual channel Ryat?

ICO channel= Distant Stars if your gonna show up.

Reply #37 Top

you know... i have been ico for almsot all day... advertising... I as starting to worry we might have to run 2 games... ROFL!

53 min!

edit... herem.... the people i talked to are not goign to know that... well... just name the game EXACTLY "Distant Stars" and well be good.

Reply #38 Top

cool getting two games going, make the mod know

SPREAD FORTH THE MOD!

Reply #39 Top

Really? 2 games?!?!

Reply #40 Top

maaaybe. we will see.

Reply #41 Top

lets do this shizz! get in teh game naoe!

Reply #42 Top

oops wrong checksum

is 34832073 for checksum

Reply #43 Top

Well, that sucks.  Two attempts, and no go.  First time, it blackscreened on load. 

Second time, it loaded fine... then a few minutes into the game, it acted as if it were paused.  All I could see were other people trying to pause and unpause the game as if that would fix it... and it went on like that for a minute or two, so I quit figuring everyone's game was stuck too.

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Reply #44 Top

sorry guys had internet problems:'(

maybe another night for me

*picks up hammer*

time to find some bugs to smash

Reply #45 Top

I guess this is what i get for not checking the forums lol I missed the boat on this one.  When is a good night for everyone?  I'll be loggin on a little later tonight to check I want to play this sooooo bad on mp

Reply #46 Top

LOL, I got owned. ofcourse i was trying to hard to take pics. Then I got the blue screen of death cuz i over heated my CPU. Thats what i get for trying to 3 things at once. DOH!!!!!!

Was much fun though!!!!! And fast. :D

Reply #47 Top

Well, that sucks. Two attempts, and no go. First time, it blackscreened on load.

Second time, it loaded fine... then a few minutes into the game, it acted as if it were paused. All I could see were other people trying to pause and unpause the game as if that would fix it... and it went on like that for a minute or two, so I quit figuring everyone's game was stuck too.

You were fine, the game acted as though it were paused because someone was lagging / crashed.  People hit pause / unpause (I THINK???) because it resets the disconnect counter and gives the lagger a chance to reconnect.  When you see this happening, just wait it out, the game continued after a couple minutes and the player disconnected.

Reply #48 Top

How it go Cykur?! I assume you and Pb won?

Reply #49 Top

Quoting Cykur, reply 47

Well, that sucks. Two attempts, and no go. First time, it blackscreened on load.

Second time, it loaded fine... then a few minutes into the game, it acted as if it were paused. All I could see were other people trying to pause and unpause the game as if that would fix it... and it went on like that for a minute or two, so I quit figuring everyone's game was stuck too.


You were fine, the game acted as though it were paused because someone was lagging / crashed.  People hit pause / unpause (I THINK???) because it resets the disconnect counter and gives the lagger a chance to reconnect.  When you see this happening, just wait it out, the game continued after a couple minutes and the player disconnected.

In other words I was cause the "pausing/unpausing" with my STUPID internet"#:(

Reply #50 Top

Was much fun though!!!!! And fast.

 

It played too fast for my tastes at the beginning, though it slowed down to an acceptable speed by end of the game...and just curious, does DS always give that much money?  It was like income was doubled or something.

 

Also, because some of the planets can take so much development (Urban worlds!!!), I think DS lends itself to maps that have a few more uncolonizable gravwells so the game becomes a bit more tactical to secure the good spots.  I've made a few tailored "Map Designer" random maps that lowered the number of rare worlds vs lower quality gravwells and I find these play out quite nicely and are a bit more tactical.  Just my preference, I suppose, but DS seems to lend itself to this style of play.