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Title: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Scottish Andy on June 08, 2012, 08:43:27 am: Anyone here want to play Star Fleet Battles Online with me? Currently all I use it for is haphazard research for stories. It'd be cool to have a real battle with someone I know.

http://www.sfbonline.com/index.jsp (http://www.sfbonline.com/index.jsp)
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Scottish Andy on June 14, 2012, 05:04:07 pm: *sigh*

61 views and not a single reply. The silent majority speak.
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: FPF-Tobin Dax on June 14, 2012, 05:52:50 pm: Load up SFC:EAW or OP and I'll give you a match. PM me if yo want to.
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Strat on June 14, 2012, 06:20:35 pm: There are a few people active in OP on the GameRanger multiplayer client. Mostly fridays + weekend evenings.
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Grim Reaper on June 15, 2012, 10:35:32 am: I would, especially since we are nearly in the same time zone, but damn that is a lot of $$ for a sim.
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: FA Frey XC on June 16, 2012, 01:09:12 am: I think it's more because of Amarillo Design Bureau's snub of D.Net and thus the communities reluctance to support anything involving them.

*shrugs*

It's with good reason, but that may change soon.. hopefully.

Regards,
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Captain Sharp on June 16, 2012, 07:05:21 pm: Went to the site. Looks pretty tedious.

--rog
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Scottish Andy on June 20, 2012, 10:47:55 am: Thanks Tobin & Strat. Unfortunately my desktop just broke and I don't know how to fix it yet. I have SCF:OP installed there, and I don't want to put it on my work laptop. I'll check out the GameRanger client.

Ah, Rog... This from the RPG guy. How many rules and set up requirements does an average RPG have?
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Andromeda on June 20, 2012, 03:16:31 pm: I am not on SFBOL, but I'd consider it. Right now, I can only play via email, so it's an improvement. I read the site stuff and I can credit you as a referrer with your callsign.
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Scottish Andy on June 21, 2012, 09:56:42 am: Thanks Rommie. :)

As always, my call sign is "Scottish_Andy".
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Captain Sharp on June 28, 2012, 08:37:06 pm: Quote from: Scottish Andy on June 20, 2012, 10:47:55 am

Ah, Rog... This from the RPG guy. How many rules and set up requirements does an average RPG have?

I'm the D&D guy who never buys the DMG...because there's nothing in there I need. I learn the basics and go on. Also prefer RPG's with FEWER rule sets. Because they're not tedious.

--guv (Rog)
Title: Re: Star Fleet Battles Online
Post by: Commander La'ra on July 01, 2012, 02:32:25 pm: SFB is a products of the gaming industry in the '70's and early '80s. Tedium was practically required by law. Considering the amount of paper me and the Guv went through playing the FASA ST combat game in our youth, I have trouble wrapping my head around the idea of how much dead trees and time it'd take to play out one of those really big SFB scenarios on a table.

I'd play this with ya' if it was free, Andy, just to give it a try, but not so keen on a subscription fee for what amounts to a time-saving device. $79 for a year will get me an iRacing subscription.