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Re: Best space strategy games? I'm slowly getting back into X3, which is a lot of fun, even if it's not 100% accessible and probably won't be. There are many things we can do despite the lack of manual spaceflight, as it's got a ton of menus and an excellent scripting ability. URL: https

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Re: Best space strategy games? The best that I've found so far is the command line version of Master of Orion. Almost all aspects of it are accessible, except combat which you can leave to the AI to automatically resolve.I also used to be pretty addicted to Ogame and its variants / clones

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Re: Best space strategy games? Didn't the missile bug have to do with graphics or something?I think it had to do with the graphics messing up or something, makes you wish someone would just put a blind mode, where all the graphics got removed. From what I have heard, they were

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Re: Best space strategy games? Please tell me that those bugs were fixed in the latest version? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487682/#p487682 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: Best space strategy games? Does "Invasion still have some of the bugs of Secession? Such as the missiles crashing the game?Grrr, I hate that bug. I could prob deal with most of the other stuff, but that bug... G URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487630/#p4

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hi.@Audacity, I sent you a PM.If and when you reply, could you please post in this topic?PM notifications don't seem to work anymore. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487583/#p487583 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Best space strategy games? Well, first, as far as I know only Secession and Invasion actually are accessible. I think there is a manual for useing the game.Also, you useing NVDA, or Jaws? You have to, I believe, change cursers. If your useing Jaws, you press the... "Jaws curser

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Walker,  Ah, you're using Jaws! Object review is similar to the jaws/invisible cursors. I used smugglers with Jaws, too, and ended up using the left and right bracket keys to click on stuff a lot...but, hell, if a trackpad works better I'll maybe have to try

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Re: Best space strategy games? I’m seriously considering getting a refund for the smugglers collection. I just cannot get them to work. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487162/#p487162 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Best space strategy games? TauStation was mentioned in this thread. That game is very much a Dark game. PVP, no open PVP, not really designed with strategy in mind, I don't think. For a browser game, it's doing a heck of a lot with lore and story, more than any other browser game I

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Re: Best space strategy games? I use jaws, so mabie it's different.Mostly I used the pad to click on stuff, would nav through the menues, also. "Object review?That the thing when you switch from PC curser, to invis curser?Yeah, the missiles crashing was why I gave it up, since my str

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hi WAlker and all, Yeah, I remember getting through both Cecession and Invasion on NVDA without a trackpad. You have to use I think object review mode and mouse tracking needs to be turned on (NVDA key plus M), and use the NVDA key plus enter to click

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Walker, new horizons isn't shunting you to google drive, it's hosted on google drive, this was why I couldn't put a direct download. However, if you clikc the download button, you should be able to download the file no problem. I don't believe a mouse

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Re: Best space strategy games? On the subject of getting smugglers bac, or at least playing the demos of Secession and Invasion, where would I get them? Steam... Makes me want to take a very large and very heavy rench to the program... I don't like it at all.I don't think GOG has a demo

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Walker, new horizons isn't shunting you to google drive, it's hosted on google drive, this was why I couldn't put a direct download. However, if you clikc the download button, you should be able to download the file no problem. URL: https

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Re: Best space strategy games? I am trying to download New Horizons, but it's shunting me to google drives for some stupid reason.I did like Smugglers, think it was sucession, but it kept crashing sometimes when I fired missiles at other ships, and that miffed me. Might play it again

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Re: Best space strategy games? I'm not a huge fan of clicker games as they need to be played in a webbrouser and i can't find any off line ones. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484497/#p484497 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Best space strategy games? Huh, this is the first i heard about Junction Gate. It looks like a lot of fun, and I very much look forward to playing with it. THanks for mentioning it, MIlos. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484314/#p484314 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hmm for now i create a alliances with two factions, and im explore a galaxy and try to increase a strenghth of my fleet and i will a wage wars against hostile factions, for now and for me the game is amazing. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484284

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Re: Best space strategy games? I never got the stock market in junction gate, though I should try the game again as I loved the concept and the story and really wanted to getting to exploring the galaxy. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484258/#p484258 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Milos,  Oh yeah I forgot about junction gate, which is weird because I played it for a bit last week. It's a great concept though I only ever got like halfway I think, like to the point where I made a company and started sending ships out. How much more

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hmmm the junction gate is for me the best space strategy game. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484229/#p484229 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: Best space strategy games? Wow… I can honestly say Dark that I have no memory of writing this. I'll have to do some digging through the Audyssey archives to see if I can find the original post. It's amazing how time flies when you get older, I guess. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Rtt, getting married both adds to your score at the end of the game, and also gives you free battledroids and some quests to do.Again I'll have to check the interface with NVdA before giving tips. With new horizons, I'm not sure on the sound mod as I never

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Re: Best space strategy games? I just checked out some gameplay of smugglers five and I have absolutely no idea how anyone has actually managed to play this game without pulling all of their hair out in frustration. I have never seen a game so complex in the way that the interface is laid

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Re: Best space strategy games? I'm trying to get back into TW2002 tonight and to see if any of the old helpers I used to use are still around. The one I'm most familiar with was called TWXProxy, though I don't think it's had a new release in years, but then again I guess neither has TW2002

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hi. If only death match a new beginning was still around. Game was a legend. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484050/#p484050 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi

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Re: Best space strategy games? Do you know any good helper programs? I played on a BBS a few years ago, the one Trenton Goldshark posted about as I recall, and it got overwhelming after a while. The multiplayer would be fun though. Reminds me of staarship traders/the Last Resort. Did you

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Re: Best space strategy games? I tried Tau Station for one or two days but got bored fairly quickly, as I recall. That's not saying that other people might not enjoy it.While we're on the subject of space strategy games, I always loved Trade Wars 2002, and related games in that genre

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hmm, Tao station looks interesting. I played for a few minutes and just got pulled away but didn't really give the game enough time for anything. It did seem a lot like Torn City, just grind until you get the right numbers then have some text adventures so

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hey All,Begin at least was originally a DOS program. THere's a Windows version but it isn't accessible, so you need a DOS emulator, like Talking Dosbox to play it. IF you can get one you can find it at this link, among other places, though the full manual may

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hi all.So, i think it would be best to say that i'v downloaded new horizons, but i can't find the sound mod for it.Does anyone know where i find it?Also, apparently you were able to own your own moon? How did that work exactly?I have another question about

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Re: Best space strategy games? The  website I saw for anacreon was This one which has the manual and documentation, although according to that site the game's last update was around 2005 or so. I do remember checking out the game at one point and loving the sound of some of the systems

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hey hey Zkline!Any idea where i can get this star trek begin?I found a version of anacreon. Unfortunately there is no manual. So i dont know how to control anything.Oh and a thousand thanks for this orion-g-plus! Thats so damn great! URL: https

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Re: Best space strategy games? Holy hell that one command is saving me loads of time. Thank you! Yeah the syntax is strange but so what? Definitely these games are on the deep end of what I enjoy, MOO's about to make my head explode and it does feel a lot like work. I keep getting my ass

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Audacity, nope, when I played core exiles everything was pve. There was mech battling as a minigame, but that was more like a sport where you'd sit around and  see whom the random numbers favoured .There was a huge amount of other stuff though, from massive

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Re: Best space strategy games? On the topic of obscure strategy games,I have to mention Anacreon Reconstruction, which is available for DOS and Windows. It's a lot of fun, even if it isn't quite as  deep as some of the other games in this thread. I wish it had been improved just a bit

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Re: Best space strategy games? Thank you so much audacity. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483686/#p483686 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: Best space strategy games? Audacity and all,I'm glad to hear you're enjoying MOO a bit more. I was looking at the code required to add a next/previous colony function, and it looks fairly simple. I should be able to get to that whenever work lets up in the next week or so and I feel

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Dark  Yeah, I pick up voyageur just for the civilization and planet descriptions now and then leave it in disgust, every time, after like a half hour...but I know I'll be back. I want to check out core exiles, I've heard only good things. Is there any kind

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hi guys.I know that this might sound weird, but please don't take this the wrong way.Could someone please teach me how to play smugglers with nvda over skype?I would really love to play this game, and I have wanted to for five years. I kinda baught it off

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Re: Best space strategy games? My favorite Star Trek game was always Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation. It was a bit  less a strategy game and more a simulation of ship-based tactical combat, but was very unique. I need to try and grab it again for the fun of it. It was based

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Re: Best space strategy games? @RTT entertainment, I've not tried smugglers with NVDA myself yet, I'd need to reinstall the games on my windows 10 machine and then work out how to do things with NVdA myself before I even consider a recording or similar, plus do something about recording

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Re: Best space strategy games? @RTT entertainment, I've not tried smugglers with NVDA myself yet, I'd need to reinstall the games on my windows 10 machine and then work out how to do things with NVdA myself before I even consider a recording or similar, plus do something about recording

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Re: Best space strategy games? Trek2000? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483413/#p483413 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: Best space strategy games? 1920x1080 is just fine, you'll be able to enjoy the game without having to fumble around with odd workarounds. The one thing I might suggest is to check the Windows scaling settings, they might be set to 200% or 150%, and you'll want to lower that to 100

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Re: Best space strategy games? @ZklineLooks like I've got 1920 x 1080. Is that good or bad? The combo box lets me change it apparently?And... I'm not scared. Overwhelmed, maybe, especially because I've mostly been using NVDA for years and my jaws cursor game needs work. I'm intrigued

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Re: Best space strategy games? Aurora is to MOO as… Hm, well. Maybe I can best illustrate this with an example. MOO ships are built out of pre-designed modules, you put, say, Merculite Missiles and some shields on, but the point is that you're basically picking components off a menu

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Re: Best space strategy games? Aurora is to MOO as… Hm, well. Maybe I can best illustrate this with an example. MOO ships are built out of pre-designed modules, you put, say, Merculite Missiles and some shields on, but the point is that you're basically picking compoennts off a menu

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Re: Best space strategy games? @ZklineSorry for the double post but I just tried to play Aurora and holy hell I'm never going to complain about Master of Orion being too complicated again. I'm so so lost. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483323/#p483323 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Best space strategy games? ee@DarkHmm, that all makes a lot of sense. I love Trimps for similar reasons--it's a great balance between just letting it go while you're doing other stuff and then sometimes going back to micromanage and optimize things. I'd say the middle two xs, expanding

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Re: Best space strategy games? @DarkHmm, that all makes a lot of sense. I love Trimps for similar reasons--it's a great balance between just letting it go while you're doing other stuff and then sometimes going back to micromanage and optimize things. I'd say the middle two xs, expanding

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Re: Best space strategy games? thanks dark. Do you think you could please also make a new updated recording if possible? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483303/#p483303 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: Best space strategy games? I'm afraid I'm not sure, back when I was playing smugglers I was using supernova, which played perfectly with the games, but I know others have played the games successfully with NVdA. I believe it's something to do with what keys are used and what elements

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Re: Best space strategy games? I'm afraid I'm not sure, back when I was playing smugglers I was using supernova, which played perfectly with the games, but I know others have played the games successfully with NVdA. I believe it's something to do with what keys are used and what elements

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Re: Best space strategy games? I'm afraid I'm not sure, back when I was playing smugglers I was using supernova, which played perfectly with the games, but I know others have played the games successfully with NVdA. I believe it's something to do with what keys are used and what elements

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hi dark. Thanks so much for the help. Is there a discord server for the smugglers games? I really would like to hear how the game is played using NVDA. I will have a look at new horizons again. I  own both smugglers five games and I have wanted to play them

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Re: Best space strategy games? I agree with you as far as OCR goes, since most OCR results I've seen have been too unreliable to make a thing easily accessible, but not as far as the NVdA curser goes. maybe it was just getting used to using Supernova's virtual curser, which you had to do

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Re: Best space strategy games? Hi guys.So, I have one major problem that prevents me from playing some of these games.I am not the biggest fan of using OCR for one major reason. Its experimental in nature.What this means is that it can't give perfect results.I hate messing around

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Audacity,That question about favorite games is hard to answer, because i tend to get into moods for one game or another and bang on it exclusively for a couple months and then burn out. I've been known to love roguelike games in general, NetHack and Dungeon

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Re: Best space strategy games? for me, the first two x's of 4x games, that is explore and expand were always the most important ones, plus of course a little combat is fun. Management I always saw as means to an end, that is building more stuff or expanding more, so for me at least, flying

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Re: Best space strategy games? @DarkI think our tastes are flipped in that regard. My problem with new horizons, and this is all subjective, was it seemed to be more about first person exploration and combat than actually building an empire, fleet, or even having much ship customization

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Re: Best space strategy games? I loved the smugglers games, and should actually reinstall them on my windows 10 machine and try them out with NVdA, though I'd like to put in a word for new horizons as I spent hours on that one (see my guide in the articles room).I will say these days

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Re: Best space strategy games? @Zkline,I remember reading your article about that, vaguely, and it seemed my screen resolution was too high so I didn't try. Maybe there's a way to deal with that though? Also, since it seems our tastes are similar, what do you play most often and what games

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Re: Best space strategy games? I can't exactly say I recommend Aurora, just because it's got a bunch of little quirks which are largely a result of its VB6 heritage. It's a wonderful strategy game, just definitely not for everyone, and I'm basically shelving it until the new version comes

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Re: Best space strategy games? I use both Jaws And NVDA. I am an extremely slow learner. Do you think you could please possibly make an audio recording? I can learn a lot better when there is someone actually explaining what to do. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482921/#p482921

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Re: Best space strategy games? Yeah the smugglers games are quite playable with a bit of patience. What screen reader are you using? I'm happy to help as best I can. Yeah, New Horizons kept me engaged for a solid couple days but it seemed more a game of reflexes than strategy after a while

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Re: Best space strategy games? Don’t forget about new horizons, which is an audio version of the elite game developed by the same developer as echo quadrant. Unfortunately, that game can also be quite hard to follow because there are too many sounds. Were you actually able to play

Best space strategy games?

Best space strategy games? Hi all,  As maybe you can see from my name, I'm really into space strategy type games. I loved smugglers Five, both invasion and cecession, though I found the mechanics a bit too repetitive and mindless after a while. Star Traders on iOS and android was great too