Heya, I've been around here for a bit and am an occasional commenter. My unverifiable claim to StarControl fame is that I may have been the first person in Namibia (that's in south-western Africa) to have completed StarControl 2's story.

Greetings fellow hunams!

I'm FinShady, a 37 year old guy from Finland who loved the original Star Control on the Amiga and later the superb Star Control 2 on the PC.

I got the Founders Life Time Edition the instant I heard that a new Star Control game is being made, just to give my support for these developers bringing one of my most cherished childhood games back again after all of these years.

Can't wait to get my hands on this and really hope that this will encapsulate the magic of SC2 (even thou the original races are not available) and to be a worthy sequel/prequel (which SC3 was not).

^ I think you're like second Finn in the founder's program.

Oh hi there. So I never actually owned Star Control, or Star Control II. This being because my dad was a Mac fanatic, he started computer users' groups for Mac computers in a couple of different cities in the 1980s, and we never owned anything else (except from a very very early Amstrad when I was super young). Star Control, of course, never came out on the Mac, like about a billion other great games.

So I spent a lot of my childhood living vicariously through my friends' computer game collections. I would go over to my friends' houses as often as possible to play all the amazing games on their C64, Amiga or PC - Alien Breed, Speedball 2, Chaos Engine, Microprose Formula One Grand Prix, Alan Border's Cricket, the original Star Control and plenty more I've forgotten.

It was Star Control II that completely blew me away. Me and one of my friends started the game together over at his house on his PC, and would sit for hours exploring the galaxy, taking notes on plot points, taking it in turns to fight the melee battles. It was amazing. No other game made quite the same impression on me.

For a while my friend managed to only play it while I was over at his place, so I could keep up with the story. Inevitably though, he ran out of patience and started playing through the game on his own with a new save. I would breathlessly listen to his updates on the story once he overtook our save, and then when I went over to his place we would keep playing our save and try different paths.

Eventually he moved away, and though I spent some time playing the super-melee battles in Star Control 3 with some other friends who had that game, I never did finish the main story in SCII, a source of great teenage regret.

I was thrilled, then, when the Ur-Quan Masters remake came out a few years ago, and was even more thrilled to find how well the game held up as an experience after all these years. So not only was I able to have the closure of finally playing through and finishing the full game, but I actually enjoyed the experience along the way, not just as a nostalgia piece but as a quality game in its own right. I think after 20 years that's pretty remarkable.

So anyway, that's the story of my relationship with Star Control. I'm thrilled (if slightly apprehensive) to hear that someone is taking on the mammoth task of creating a kind-of-prequel to my all-time favourite game for today's technology, and looking forward to seeing the game progress.

OccamsLaser is a great name!  :-)

Hello *happy campers*

The usual story. Played SC1 & 2 back in the day. SC2 made a great impression and super melee alone was a lot of fun.

New Star Control game being made. Of course im in.

Even if it's not about Ur-Quan and 'friends' 

Howdy guys from Texas.  I made a forum account back when Stardock first purchased the Star Control rights, but sadly my work decided to block starcontrol.com as a malware site soon after, so I didn't get much of a chance to lurk.  Glad that I can get to the new, full site!

Greetings fellow humans;

This old Pyro is now here and excited to see how the project unfolds

I've been playing SC2 on & off since I was first introduced to it in the late 90s during my Electronic repair/engineering classes in the local vocational school as well as playing a bit of SC3 "Grr space cows!"

Yes I had previously owned Star Control 2 on the 3DO & somewhere in my house I still have the disk & original box/manual for Star Control 3 floating around.  It also pleases me to no end to see how many people still love a game that's roughly 2 decades old.  Now that's staying power!  :)

Also yes I'm one that has oddball random ideas which you may see me posting here & there for fun items to be in game.

But for now, see you at your favorite Rainbow World tavern.

Why, thank you sir!

Hi there.

I'm Jared, 35. Around for the original Star Control games.

Hoping that Origins is great and that it is successful enough to get Toys for Bob to join up later to continue the SC2 story in another game

and I can't figure out how to change my avatar...

Hey everyone. Texas guy here, age 36. Some of my best childhood memories involve night-long sessions of competitive Genesis SC1 Melee against my older brother on the couch. Those smiles are tangled up with lots of Starflight and ToeJam & Earl, too.

In the years of PC gaming that followed, few things stayed around as long as SC2 (and, yes, SC3). I typically played through the storylines 2 or 3 times, but found Melee to be the *perfect* chess game and kept coming back to it, honing my strategies until I could win with almost any matchup. Never quite mastered the stinkin' Supox, though

Really excited for Origins and am spending the evening digging through the earlier Founders' info I missed!

Hi Guys,

My name is Luke and I quite enjoyed playing SC2. When I saw this reboot I wanted to join the founder's program right away and I had received an email to join. However, due to financial reasons I decided it would be more responsible to wait.

So, here I am. I work in the IT field, have a degree in Computer Science, and enjoy gaming and modding. I have mostly done modding for Mount & Blade / M&B Warband, but also some tweaking in Skyrim and Fallout NV. I am very interested in the modding potential of this game. My skills are mostly in coding, so let me know if you want help in that area.

Hi, I am the Ur-quan Master. 

I am a loyal fan of the SC2 games, in fact I grew up with them! Not the way that your thinking though. 

I just barely turned 18 this year, and I have been loyally playing and following the star control fan base since I was 10. I began to worry when I saw it begin to stagnate, swallowed by the ever progressing waves of time. But low and behold, a sequel! The moment I saw that there was a way to apply for the founders program, I did so immediately. 

Ever since I have been checking up on, and commenting on, the form from time to time, I admit that I am not the most active of members (those would probably be the first two that commented on this form) I try to stop by as often as I can. 

I am young for the ways of this world, and do my best to give my advice as I, a younger fan of SC2, can give. 

I hope to get to know all of you better, and I can't wait to play you in the new net-meely  (I even played the infamous Gekko once, under the alias of Azak, and was brutally murdered. It was even streamed live on twitch) SC2 remains my most favorite game of all time, and I cant wait to see if the stardock team can live up to its legacy (good luck!) As cryptc2 put it: 

I could not agree more. And I sincerely hope that my impulse buy of 99.99 was worth it. 

Oh good, it finally caught up

Hello everybody! My name is Alexey (33) and I am from Russia.

Back in my childhood I wanted to play SC2 so much that I even started to learn English in order to understand all that alien blah-blah. I had the 3DO version that had no subtitles so... you get the idea. No pain no gain

I am working for a mining company and have both legal and managerial backgrounds so I do not have much time to post here but I am doing my best (have not commented on September and August updates yet, but will do so once I see the October update).

P.S. I named the planet after one  mineral deposit...

Hello! I've just joined here, but some of you may know me as *Angelfish* on one of the old forums.

I've been a star control community member for quite some time now, I remember posting on the old star control forums waaay back in 1999 .

I played Star control 2 somewhere around 1996 I think and it is still one of my favorite games of all times.

I'm glad that forgboy's clan have resurrected the dead horse that Fred and Paul made of Star Control, so I hope that this brings the series the greatness that it used to have

-Angelfish

Quoting maanvis26, reply 41

Hello! I've just joined here, but some of you may know me as *Angelfish* on one of the old forums.

I've been a star control community member for quite some time now, I remember posting on the old star control forums waaay back in 1999 .

I played Star control 2 somewhere around 1996 I think and it is still one of my favorite games of all times.

I'm glad that forgboy's clan have resurrected the dead horse that Fred and Paul made of Star Control, so I hope that this brings the series the greatness that it used to have

 

-Angelfish

I remember dueling you a few times back when netplay was reintroduced to UQM I  don't  remember the handle I was using at the time, but you consistently beat me because my connection was so awful back then

Quoting Volusianus, reply 42

Quoting maanvis26,

reply 41

Hello! I've just joined here, but some of you may know me as *Angelfish* on one of the old forums.

I've been a star control community member for quite some time now, I remember posting on the old star control forums waaay back in 1999 .

I played Star control 2 somewhere around 1996 I think and it is still one of my favorite games of all times.

I'm glad that forgboy's clan have resurrected the dead horse that Fred and Paul made of Star Control, so I hope that this brings the series the greatness that it used to have

 

-Angelfish

 

I remember dueling you a few times back when netplay was reintroduced to UQM I  don't  remember the handle I was using at the time, but you consistently beat me because my connection was so awful back then

I actually won matches? Can't remember much of it ;D

Admittedly, Netplay wasn't exactly perfect in UQM either. I don't think much of a community sprang up just due to how much of a hassle it was, but it was fun the first couple of dozen times I used it. Nothing like actually sitting down at the same keyboard and fighting over who got the left side of the keyboard.

Hi, I'm Sychon(28)(USA) and I only recently played UQM until 2 years ago after searching endlessly for some kind of space sim game that had exploration. I've also been playing a bunch of Stardock games as well such as Demigod and Galactic Civ 2 and when I heard they we're making another Starcontrol I got super hyped. 

But like most other "Hypothetical Gold Scenarios" eg: CCP making a world of darkness MMO the dream and vision is usually far too good to be true. So I've joined this forum to be super nit-picky as I like many others here now see Stardock as holding our dreams and money.

So what I've been doing is shoving Star control 2 down as many friends throats as I can, so far I got about 10 and trying to figure out what makes the original so good and reporting about my findings because I believe its important to get the opinions of people who play modern video games instead of people who just want the old game with a new skin.

So I'll be posting a bunch of Reports on this forum that may or may not help make the game the best it can be.

G'Day Everyone

After reading this thread, all i can say its nice to be among friends.  As for me, its a similar story to many people here.  Played Star Control I & II many years ago and ever since have been searching for another game with that "something" (the UQM Project eased the pain ).  I have been lurking in the various forums ever since Stardock acquired the rights from Accolade waiting for a chance to join the founders program.

Anyways - I am really hoping that between Stardock and the fans, Star Control: Origins will be something truly fantastic !!

Greetings! My name is Shane,level 47 grew up in the arcade era and have loved games ever since.I got my first taste of star control on my sega genesis and spent many hours crushing and sadly being crushed with my friends.I was one of the poor souls who bought a 3DO and then one day there it was!Star control 2 there to save me!Seeing and hearing the ur quan for the first time blew me away and is still one of my favorite gaming moments.Like everyone else I'm very excited about origins and hope I can contribute in any way.I shift work so have PLENTY of time to pilot starships 

Hi, I'm hervé, 29. I'm a big fan of Star Control 2 and I'm really happy that stardock develops the new Star Control.

Howdy! Just wanted to drop by and say I'm excited to be a founder!

I think I'm somewhat unique in that I'm coming into this without having actually played the original games, though I am familiar with them. I feel like most people who eventually purchase this game will be in the same boat, so I hope that I find a way to contribute from an outside perspective.

I understand a lot of the dev team has experience from past Sid Meier's games, so hopefully a bit of the fun of Pirates! makes its way into this game (and maybe a little Sid Meier's Sim Golf! Well, maybe not, but if anyone knows someone with the power to make a sequel happen, I'll buy it day one ). I'm looking forward to adventuring in space, and as far as I can tell the originals let you have a real impact on the shape of the galaxy, so I hope that's the case here.

Nice to meet ya'll, and looking forward to seeing the game take shape!

^ Make sure you check the Vault and post some thoughts on the material. It's always interesting to see an "unbiased" opinion on old and tried stuff. I don't think we've had a "fresh set of eyes" opinion on here.  AFAIK everyone active on here played the classic(s).