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Allows players to pool player information to create a graphic representation.
Allows players to pool player information to create a graphic representation.
Dos based, Nice output.
Dos based, Nice output.
===[[Stars! Message Reader]]===
*[[file:starsmsg.zip download starsmsg.zip v1.1 162kb]]
*Author: Thomas Stüfe
The Stars! Message Reader automatically scans Stars! and reads all messages. It stores them into an internal database, or you can save them as a plain text file. You can easily read messages from previous turns and filter player messages.
===[[Stars! Notebook]]===
===[[Stars! Notebook]]===
*[[file:snb_v2xf.rar|download snb_v2xf.rar 227kb]]
*[[file:snb_v2xf.rar|download snb_v2xf.rar 227kb]]

Revision as of 23:44, 8 January 2007

Because the best old Stars! websites keep quietly disappearing all of the download links below are from the wiki site itself, if you are the author of any of these files and would like a file to not be available from the wiki site, please contact Gible to have it removed. Links to the file's homepage & original web locations will be added if possible. - feel free to help :)

You can also help by writing the individual articles for the utilities that require installation or usage instructions, or just coz they deserve it. :)

  • see also:
downloads
Related Websites

Game setup utilities

Map2XY

Map2XY will take a .xy file and a .map file and modify the .xy file to match the .map file. This allows moving planets on the y axis (north/south) quite a bit, since you cannot change the order of the planets, the x axis isn't too modifiable, except you could stretch or compress the universe. It also allows renaming the planets, to other Stars! names only.

Mapper

Recreates the xy universe file from a GIF file. Also allows the xy file to be exported to a GIF.

Star Name Changer

Allows you to change the names of your stars/planets in Stars! games. This only affects your XY file, so if you want the changes to apply to everyone, they will need to receive the updated XY file. Zip file contains instructions, and different versions for different operating systems.

Universe Creator

A great utility that allows hosts to not only model the galaxy off a bitmap, but also allows them to move homeworlds around. There are some restrictions as to where the new homeworlds are placed.

Calculators

Chaff Sweeping Calculator

A program that estimates the number of chaff needed to "chaff sweep" a minefield.

Opt Move

  • author: LEit

Utility that allows you to enter max warp and distance and it punches back the optimal warp settings and distance for travelling that distance. Very useful for ship movements that are fuel-limited or time constrained like shifting population or orbital adjustors.

Packet Damage Calculator

Packet Location Calculator

homepage: Stars! FAQ

Planet Sniffer

Population Growth Rate Formula

S.B.Posey's Spreadsheet

Expansive calculation spreadsheet with many uses.

Stars! Calculator

Stars! Xpert

The Xpert is a calculator for cloaking, bombing, packet damage, weapons damage (with respect to capacitors, deflectors, computers and jammers), fuel consumption, and planetary resources.

TeamTT8

TT8v2

  • author: overworked(OWK)

This is the second generation of the Ugly_TT spreadsheet for calculating terraforming values and "best race" to colonize a given planet.

In-game information processing/sharing

Combine.exe

  • author: LEit

Utility that combines multiple pxx or fxx reports into a single output file.

Information Trader

Allows players to transfer gaming information without compromising their own security.

mSplit

mSplit is a small command-line tool to split a multi-year M file into it's consitutent 1-year parts. Includes source code and compiled binaries for both windows and linux.

Secret Intelligence Reporter

Star Map

Allows players to pool player information to create a graphic representation. Dos based, Nice output.

Stars! Message Reader

The Stars! Message Reader automatically scans Stars! and reads all messages. It stores them into an internal database, or you can save them as a plain text file. You can easily read messages from previous turns and filter player messages.

Stars! Notebook

Stars! Report Processor

A program for managing/visualising existing/potential fleet movements, scanning capabilities, distances and more.

Territories

Xtreme Borders

A mapper program which allows players to combine and analyse data extracted from the game, including the visualization of each players influence over a territory, mapping of stargate networks and the display of allies scanner data, while providing a convenient place for keeping notes on the other races in the game.

.m/.x file management

AutoHost Client

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note: v2.2 program incorrectly reports v2.11

The AutoHost Client is a program to automate the interactions with the Stars! AutoHost web site, as well as some other common actions such as making backups of turn files, launching Stars!, and dumping fleet and planet reports.

Stars! TurnXChange

Allows a web server to automate the hosting part of the game. The original perl code for the web hosting services provided by Stars! AutoHost.

Xtreme StarMail

A utility to help hosts manage the sending of turns to players (both MAPI and SMPT supported), allows for optional attachments, custom messages and alternate email addresses

Stars Editor

Complete component and hull editor for Stars! with a an easy to use interface (works with both I and JRC3 patches), modifications can be saved into a small .MOD file, which can be distributed to players to modify their own exe's with. (Note: It's best to keep an unedited copy of stars on your harddisk)

Online Utilities

See also Related Websites

Flash Race Wizard

Stars! Overall Planet Habitability and Race Econ Calculator

Wumpus's Stars! Battlesim generator

Wumpus's Stars! race file checker

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