On Thursday, December 7th, 1995 - Terry Russell wrote:
 
 > here, that's called cheatin'!!!
 > :->
TR>  >
TR> No you got it wrong, I don't play on mine own BBS. I can't win here 
 
Oh, my mistake.
 
TR> usually a problem for me, I stay small using a ship that only uses 2 
TR> turns per warp, I bank my money and save up for the 500,000 mark. 
 
Interesting strategy.  I can't stand flying around a scout marauder. 
Takes too long to bring a large group of colonists.  Also, you must get
really lucky that the Ferrengi don't kick your butt all the time.
A well armed Merchant Cruiser or Battleship keeps them away.
 
TR> Then at a good moment I go with an ISS and keep my 2 turn per warp 
TR> ship for scouting until the game really gets moving. To many people 
 
How the heck do you build up enough alignment to qualify for a StarShip
when you're flying around in a weak Scout Marauder?
 
TR> get  to conserned with getting a big powerful ship, by the time I am 
TR> ready I got a IS with 5 to 10 thousand fighters and I don't attack 
 
Every time I've gotten to the level of being able to get a StarShip, the 
BBS I'm playing on will go down or crash the TW stat file.  Around here, 
sysops running on PCs don't seem to know what they are doing.  I'm
beginning to think on-line games are therefore just a big waste of time.
Unless they're old games being run on an 8-bit.  I haven't had much
trouble with those.
 
I've never seen any on-line games running on a BBS on an Atari 8-bit,
have you?  Plenty of Commodore though.
 
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