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Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 14, 2004, 01:33:52 pm
http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/forum/showthread.php?p=19404#post19404

Would you guys be interested any?

(Redudant for audience)
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: J3Vr6 on June 14, 2004, 01:49:32 pm
To be honest, and don't rape me (ok maybe a little), I have never understood nodewars :(  It sounded like a game of RISK using the node map...
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 14, 2004, 02:06:50 pm
Umm.. err.. it's like a nation-based RPG. With nodes, and Terrans and Vasudans.
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: J3Vr6 on June 14, 2004, 02:18:39 pm
uh oh... I didn't realize this was in two places.   I just saw this thread in the regular forum and thought, "Hey, didn't I just respond to this a little while agO?  Hmm.. I guess not."

lol, yes I'm an ass.

Anyway, I guess I'd have to read into it to find out how stats are stored then if it's an RPG.
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 14, 2004, 03:35:29 pm
Stats are stored on the forum. You make them up.
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: DragonClaw on June 14, 2004, 06:03:59 pm
How many attempts have people made on cloning Nodewars now?
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 14, 2004, 06:39:27 pm
...... none. Unless you count various sequels. Which would be around four or five.

This wouldn't be much of a clone as much as it would still be NW, just FS Universe based, maybe few rules added and subtracted a bit. I don't know though, because I haven't put much thought into it because I don't know if anyone would play...
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 22, 2004, 08:13:43 pm
*Bumpz0r*

Would anyone else be remotely interested at all?
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Axem on June 22, 2004, 08:25:49 pm
I might be. I've played something similiar at another board. It was quite fun. :)
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 22, 2004, 08:34:06 pm
Excellent.

And for the others:
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Okay, I'll summarize.

More or less, I'm bored and want something quick, easy, and entertaining to do in my spare time. I thought of NW, and FS, and making a new Nodewar into Nodewar: Freespace Universe edition. A timeframe or specific rules haven't been set per se, as I don't know if people would be interested or not.

For those of you now familiar with Nodewar, it's a nation (or person, whatever) based RPG where you make yur nation (through statistics and junk) and get put in a universe with other people's nations and have a go at it. Before, it was a new universe based loosely off FS, using Shivans, and Beams, and Jumpnodes. This would be a direct translation from FS, meaning someone would play As the GTA, or Ross 128, or captain of the Bastion, or whatever.

This is cooler than the other NW iterations... mostly because they are dead, and we all like FS, so it should be at least mildly entertaining, right?
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Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 22, 2004, 09:09:08 pm
Is there someplace I could download nodewars or am I completely missing something...?
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 22, 2004, 09:19:58 pm
It's not a download, it's all text based, on forums.

See here (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=9) or at my first link.
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 22, 2004, 09:49:37 pm
Still not getting it, I guess I can help a bit... What excactly do you need??  How and where do you play?  I can't enter you link and I don't get it on the Forum :p
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 22, 2004, 10:05:46 pm
Well, it would be played on the NW boards, and I don't know how to explain it more than I already have without going and finding an 'official' rule sheet from some past iteration or something...
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 22, 2004, 10:28:14 pm
Meh, it sounds interesting, so I'm there :)
Title: NW > FS Idea
Post by: Knight Templar on June 23, 2004, 07:13:43 pm
The Reconstruction Era has been chosen for the timeframe in which the game will be set, unless I hear convincing argument otherwise.

A battle system and other things are being worked out now.

That is all.