Alright - its time i posted this.

I am looking for an opposing team of 4 starcraft broodwar players for a 4v4 game. We are on a Hamachi network, to mimimize lag.

I am also planning a starcraft (indivual player) tournament, so let me know if you are interested in participating.

you can post it here, or PM me.

Thanks

also, if you dont currently have starcraft, I higly suggest getting it. Its basically abandonware - you can get a copy for 10 dollars online, even cheaper on ebay.

hey nem

i went thought all my brothers old games coz its sounded rely famiular is it very much like armada being a RTS and its got like 3 faces on front of the boz coz if so i ahve it

i can play a little but only prob is that it dont run on XP too well coz mine made for 95 so you wouldnt know were i can get a patch to fix the prob would ya?

Billy

Isn't Starcraft the prequel to Freelancer. Now that was a game to play online

I am surprised you two don't know the game.. It is THE strategy game ever made (and ever to be made). It's the ultimate RTS around. Three completely different yet perfectly balanced races. I do like to join, Nemitor. Only problem is I do have Starcraft, yet I do not have have Brood Wars..

no, not that I know of.



XP supports all 95, 98, ME games by default, so all you have to do is install, and it (should) work fine. It was made for computers slower than 133mhz, one reason why we use it. It never crashes!



Civilization 2 is still a better strategy game, but it is the best RTS ever made (Cause civ isnt an RTS)



Thats fine - we're pretty accomondating. I'll send you a PM in a few minutes.


This is great that some people are interested, and know of the game. After we get a few more people, I'll send out specified information on when and who is participating. We play games almost every night, since some people I play with are insane.

We play normal games on Fastest Possible Map v.2 - and NR games we play on "Nemitor's Fastest" Which disables ground and air rushing for a specified amount of time.

We play on a hamachi network, however, for the tournament we may use the Pro Gamers Tour servers. The only problem with the PGT is that we cant use Fastest.

We DO NOT use Battle.net due to a couple cdkey problems, and it LAGs like mad over there.


Thanks!


EDIT

I'll be on my computer on and off for the next 72 hours. I'll most of the time stop what im doing to play a game of SC with someone. However, PMing me wont work well - so you can contact me on Xfire, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL or Gtalk.

Sorry that was Starlancer i meant

nope. There hasnt been a sequel to starcraft yet.

Starcraft was the next step from the original Warcraft games. Starcraft has always been the better game but Warcraft I & II came first. Credit where it's due: 'Warcraft, the original RTS".

(You know me: I gotta nit-pick.)

I do have both starcraft and broodwar. I have to decline from playing the game, though. My schedule wont allow for the time necissary... Very unfortunate.

too bad

we play fastest possible map, so we have very fast games.

we have an average game lentgh of ~35 minutes, more or less depending on how many are playing, and the game type (teams or none)

blizzard has 2 sequals planned for starcraft, a first for blizzard with starcraft ghost for consoles, delayed due to them now releasing it on the next gen consoles and a mmo version to starcraft, doing this mainly due to the huge success of world of warcraft

dude


the MMO version of starcraft was an april fools joke.

AND

Ghost was origionally planned for release in 2003. However, its been INDEFINATELY postponed. AKA, its NEVER coming out.

Well Im really sorry to hear that Ghost will never come out. Shame. Maybe its better that way.
Blizzard is now sitting on their ears, because they got so much money from WoW they dont plan on doing anything else.
It would be far better that they make an 3D WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne look alike game from StarCraft, and then go to MMO. That would be the logical way to go.

I have an original of StarCraft and Brood War (2CD set). And I got it for 10 euros. So its not that expencive.

But Hamachin network sucks. My friend and I tried to link but we couldnt. So I use primarly Battle.Net for StarCraft. I have played and original WoW on Bnet but I dont like it. Im not in that MMO stuff.

I dont like WoW at all. Im a guild wars guy.

Hamachi works great for us, we have had 4v4 games without lag.

We dont use B.net since some of us have the same cdkeys.

We do use Battle.net -X (sometimes), which you can find http://www.pgtour.net/index.php

Maybe you just didnt have hamachi set up right. You can try to join our network for a game. We use the latest beta.

starcraft ghost is definatly coming out, they have invested to much into programming for consoles, they just delayed its release for current consoles as in terms of sales the ps2, gamecube and x-box, they are as dead as the dodo and so releasing anything for them would be a waste of time and money, so they are upgrading starcraft ghost with better graphics for a release on the ps3 and xbox360. allthough strictly speaking the revolution looks like it will do better, far cheaper than xbox360 and ps3 which are relying on hd gaming, which is an idiot thing to do seeing as no one has the cash to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a hd tv anyway.

You ever try the lan warcraft tool Battlelan, it allows ppl to play a lan game over the net and is good for multiple games.

I dont play starcraft as it i never liked the look of it to be honest. Most ppl think Total Annialation was the best rts but i hated that too when played it when borrowed from mate.

Btw theres a startrek mod for starcraft incase u wanted to play with ur mates online with it. Shouold work as long as everyone had same mod installed.

the information i have says that Starcraft Ghost was a complete failure.

I seriously doubt it will be released. From what I have been told, and have researched, Blizzard has scrapped their entire console team, and put them on WoW.

I could very well be mistaken, but that is what I believe.



your on one right now. The monitor is HD, and you can buy a $30 cord for the 360 which gives amazing results.

Xaxaxaxa! I didnt think of it.

What was that StarTrek mod again?

Star Trek mod for starcraft<-- Click me..

yad need a very hefty monitor to fully display the 1080i resolution of the ps3, which is 1920x1080, that got to be at least a 24inch crt or lcd monitor and in england thier gonna set you back at least £500. i resent spending £150 pounds on a monitor, but i spose at least thier future proofing for new technologies. still not gonna get a xbox360 seeing as its basically a cheaper pc with more basic graphics, look at reviews of obilivion all say you can get better graphics on a high end pc than a xbox360 version

Ok.

Ive argued these consoles before.

THE PS3 SUCKS ASS. I would leave it at that, but I doubt you'll let me stop.

The 360 is not just a cheap PC. No way it is. It has a triple core processor, each running at 3.3Ghz.

The CPU performance is almost 3x as effective.

The GPU is only 12 Gflops higher, but it still is.



So, the Hardware is better. And now that PS3 is having major troubles with their Blu-Ray technology, they're in trouble.

A large amount of PS's 3rd party game companies that made the PS and PS2 good, contracts ended, and they joined MS.

Microsoft has the best programmers in the world. They can thus, create the best software for a gaming system. Sorry, but Sony's software guys suck. Ive seen the PSP, the software sucks ass.

I have oblivion on BOTH my PC and 360, and I have to say, the experience is FAR better on the 360. I love the game, it kickass, but its far better on the 360. And my PC isnt a piece of crap.

oh yeah, and the 360 also supports 1080i, and it does work wonderfly on my small 17" CRT monitor from 1998.


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also, i have seen that mod for StarCraft, looks alright. I'll stick with normal SC though, im unstoppable at it.

Right about the console talk ( in general ) lets drop that as its going offtopic now. So please everyone in future stick to the OP topic which is about starcraft. Thanks.

np.

anyway, anyone up for a game between wednesday and thursday?

anytime works for us, as long as its after 9PM GMT on wednesday.

Hmm.. two cents!

Penny # One: All Hail StarCraft!

Penny # Two: I hate it when good people fall victim to hyped-up technical specs. On paper, remember boys and girls, the Nvidia GeForceFX's original cards should've totally obliterated ATI. Instead, the 9800 Pro, based on a several year old architecture in which almost nothing had been updated, continued to hold water against even the second generation of the FX. There's theoretical specs, and then there's actual real-world throughput.. which is something that we'll likely never actually get to measure, until someone drops Linux on a 360 or PS3. Likewise, their cores, while yes they have many.. ugh, you guys fell prey to the mhz myth AND the multi-core myth, not to mention instruction set differences. An AMD or Intel CPU can do almost anything you throw at it, quickly, efficiently, powerfully, with a huge amount of wiggle room. The consoles processors are extremely.. tweaked, and their instruction sets are probably much more limited in what they can do. Throw something like compileing from source code at a XBox 360, and it'll probably go ahead and commit suicide via frying its powersupply rather then go through the pain. And btw, 1080i is impressive until you realize the hardware is actually weaker than its desktop cousins, otherwise they could port PC stuff right over instead of painstakingly optimizing the **** out of it the way they have to -- if it were really that powerful, XBox 360s would be thousand dollar gadgets. Oh, and nevermind my desktop PC's have been running at a res very near to 1080i -- 1600x1200 -- for YEARS now, and in the PC world, 1080i-levels of res aren't considered really high end any more. 1920x1600 (50% higher!) is the new 'holy grail', and again, consoles couldn't dream of touchin' it.

Anyway, allow me to reitirate.... ALL HAIL STARCRAFT!

E=MC...d'oh let me get my notepad.
Ah, fusion, eh? I'll have to remember that.
Eck, who set all these lab monkeys free?
I think we may have a gas leak!
Do any of you fools know how to shut off this infernal contraption?

ATI sucks.
They have cheap GPUs and the worst drivers.


USE nVIDIA!

i am a loyal nVIDIA i used the geforce cards all the time and i never been let down only game i not been able to play was battle for middle rath and that was a diffrent thing

But i dont much aboiut them

Cheap GPUs and drivers hasn't been true since before 9700 Pro, and has lost the performance crown only once in the years since..

Rightfully giving credit to ATI as I have for being performance king for years now as I just did though, I'll step back and say Nvidia are worth every dollar too; the high end most of us cant afford anyway, and the midstream products match ATI blow-for-blow. ATI's motherboard chipset, which I'm using now, OC's far better than the NForce4 one I used previously, but then again, it's also much newer and a bit more expensive..

Unless you use Linux.. which I've heard nvidia is king in.. I remember a year ago I tried but couldn't hardly do anything in Linux 'cause ATI didn't have properly functioning drivers at all. They do now, but a few months ago, read they aren't to the performance level of Nvidia's.

Anyway, yeah, I get set off when people talk about consoles or other parts without having actually done the research regarding the real, up-to-date status of the industry, or just buy in to whatever hype any company is spinning in to the market. Knowledge is power, after all

Oh, and my last video card almost was a 6800GT.. got a X800XL instead only 'cause I caught a special sale, but wish I'd forked over a bit extra for the higher performance now

And again, Starcraft rocks on ALL video cards.

Do they still patch it?

Yes they do. 13F patch is now on.

nVidia cars are better in desing and durability. They NEVER and I say again NEVER had problem with drivers. I can put the newest drivers on the older cards and it will work without a glitch. I love nVidia.
As they say:"The way its meant to be played."

nVidia has better development departments. nVidia actualy invents something and ATI takes that and advances it a little bit and calls it a NEW BEST THING. I hate that. When I buy nVidia I know that Im paying and for the reaserch and the time and the trouble. nVidia Quad GPUs are offten used by professionals and there is no substitute on it. Apple is useing them, thats rep I need. I have Abit NF7-S and Abit Siluro FX5700 and I love them. In Fedora 4 they work amazingly good.

Im in hardware since 1996 so I know who is ATI and who is nVidia. And how they become what they are. ATI is a older firm, its a suprise how they remainded alive. But... another story...

yes....

All Hail Starcraft indeed

and im willing to bet i can beat you at it too!

give me a hollar over PM or IM and i'll play you almost anytime, anyplace.

I dont tink so. I stoped to play ladder maps and now Im forgoten it all.