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[Mousazz]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(laiocfar @ Apr 13 2007, 08:05 AM) [snapback]286841[/snapback]</div>

Utwigs are nice and hard to beat ships. In fact the super ship of the Chejensu+Mmnnrrhh isnt better of Utwig´s ship. But is you are carring a multiple fleet, you will lost most of your Utwigs at the Ur-quan combined fleet that attacks you before Samatra. So normally, if not carring a full utwig´s fleet, you attack Samatra with 2 utwigs as max. Anyway Yehats and Utwigs need to dodge in Samatra. Yehat beacause they cant hold shields up for ever and Utwigs coz they need shields down to fire. Pkunks are fast enough to avoid anything, got sidecannons so no need to face Samatra and if something fails got the resurrection. Anyway is true that Utwigs are one of the best avaible in the game.
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wrong 2 times. let me explain, please.
1. if you're a good player (i'm ten year old), you can avoid destruction of utwig juggers with shields (remember, both ur-quan fire strong projectiles, wich serves as good batteries for shields (no, really, i lose mostly 1 or two utwigs in that fight. 4 or 5 leaves to fight sa-matra k: ))
2. against sa-matra, those green balls serve as good boosts, and fireballs have their own speed, so, if you go too slow (full utwig speed) fireballs will pass through and will go around you to tail you again. that leaves some time, right? if you get ball boost (use shields on them, blobs have their own damage (1-3 crew)) you'll be too fast for fireballs, leaving stations open for fire. same goes for yehat, though there are few exeptions
see, you're wrong, but don't worry, mistakes happen, right? please, don't be angry. byr k:

note: i don't have time, so i'm writing this one as guest.

yay! :brain: beat sa-matra (again). fun. it becomes all a little TOO easy, once you aquire unlimited ru (installed bomb). finished game in 2157. easy.
i like melee. features ships you CAN'T play as (slylandro, kohr-ah...). you get to know them better.
another thing i like is the humor. features contact with star trek (oh yeah baby!). three mentions:
1. (talking to pkunk) were on a five year mission, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to go boldly where no... well you get the idea. were kind of exploring.
2. (talking to slylandro creatures) it's on a 5000 dranhna mission, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to go boldly where no... catalog 2176-b self replication explorer probe... had gone before
3. your alliance name can be: "united federation of worlds". kirk was working for "united federation of planets".

[gregor]

i could never end the game,cause i got stuck. i am not good in space combat. at first it was all very interesting and i liked to play with it and i liked the story. then two things happened...

one was that i couldn't win those combats anymore (cause i put them on auto, playing them manually was too fast for me and i couldn't win anything)
and second one was that i found out time is quite limited and events that are unfolding follow the timeline. at first i didn't get fast enough to some place. second try i always got destroyed by enemy, so i quite playing. liked the game though. the whole idea is nice. wish there was something like that on 3D (something like on privateer remake engine)

[laiocfar]

Blame me, but i flight better a pkunk fury that flying junks of utwings

[Jenkins]

One of the best game :brain:

I have also one question:
Does eliminating many of starships, such as Ilwrath Avengers in hyperspace, reduce the fleet or is it useless ?
I'm asking because I can't bear to see the Thraddash extinguished from their galaxy by the Ilwrath.

[Japo]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jenkins @ Nov 15 2007, 03:30 AM) [snapback]319245[/snapback]</div>

Does eliminating many of starships, such as Ilwrath Avengers in hyperspace, reduce the fleet or is it useless?
I'm asking because I can't bear to see the Thraddash extinguished from their galaxy by the Ilwrath.[/b]

Originally posted by Mouse-highlight below to reveal slight spoilers
Fleets are infinite and destroying ships doesn't reduce their numbers... Except ONE single case. Also the Thraddash were NOT COMPLETELY extinguised by the Ilwrath.

[Mousazz]

For those of you who are sick and tired (He,he,he), I suggest U get to quasispace, meet ARILOU and blast those fuc*** mycon out into vaccum orbit . You'll get money for salvaging these ships (seen in a little screen after you beat 'em). Have fun!:cool:

BTW: :Off topic: This forum is hard to use with the NEW (stupid) abandonia.

:On topic: pkunk works also (not to mention utwig, yehat, androsynth...)

[Borodin]

Wonderful, wonderful game. Only problem I ever had with it, is the timer that leads to the destruction of the universe if you don't find the "solution" in time. It's not so much that it isn't revealed clearly--though the game's kind of murky in letting you know--but that it exists, at all. Because it's simply too much fun traveling about, discovering new systems, mining, engaging in combat, reading the great, often humorous dialog while "talking" to the races, etc. The tendency is to treat this adventure game as a sim game, because it does so many things so well that it becomes addictive.

I wish that game-end timer could be taken out, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen, anytime soon. Great title, though. Shame the Toys for Bob folks weren't commissioned to do the third title in the series, because that was a dud.

[gregor]

i agree. played it for some time and enjoyed it and then i realised i am on a timer :-/ took away the fun...

[jdogbrunner]

Reading these posts reminded me of something I did in college years ago. I've spent years and years playing this game and I still love it. As an amateur computer programmer, I like to tinker with files just for fun. Using a Hex editor, I've located some of the key spots where data for the Starcon ships are and I've been able to modify them. Included in these files is a ship called Zardz. It's basically a Pkunk, but instead of doing one point of damage per shot, it does 6 and has an instantaneous energy recharge rate. I've beaten the Su-matra, the most difficult ship in the game, in about 20 secs. with 1 Zardz ship. Download them and place them in your Starcontrol 2 directory. They don't overwrite any of the existing ships, they just become new ships you can choose when you play SuperMelee. They appear just like the other ships do-they look exactly the same, but have awesome attributes.

You can download them here: http://www.filedropper.com/superships

PS. If you want to use these ships in the role-playing game, you have to copy the modified ship file over the original ship file--Make a backup of the original first!!!