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[http://www.starsfaq.com Stars! FAQ] was created and designed by [[James McGuigan]] to replace both the [[Stars! Advanced and Technical FAQ]] (created by [[Dave Johnston]]) and the [[rgcs FAQ]] (also created by James). It was planned to be a single web resource that contained and collated all the known technical information about Stars! that had been found over the years(rather like this wiki really).

It was one of James' idle plans to turn the FAQ into a wiki site and I have permission from James to copy all the information and articles from the FAQ into this wiki. Feel free to help {{:)}}

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==Index==

The following was originally the contents of the [[Stars! Advanced and Technical FAQ]] as it appears on the Stars! FAQ website. 
# Purpose
# [[Related Websites | Useful Links]]
# Questions & Answers
## The basics:
### [[Finding Games | How can I join a new email games?]]
### [[PBEM | How do I play by Email?]]
### [[What other FAQ's are available?]]
### [[How to Host a Game v2.0 by Omonubi|How do I host a game?]]
### [[Where else can I go to get answers to my Stars! questions?]]
### [[:Category:Glossary|Where can I find a glossary of Stars! terms?]]
### [[Abbreviations | What are the meanings of all those Stars! abbreviations?]]
### [[Get Stars!|Where can I get a copy of the game?]]
### [[Stars vs OS|Will Stars run on my OS?]]
## [[Order of Events|What is the exact order of events when turns are generated?]]
## [[How many and how dense are the stars in various universe setups?]]
## [[Population Management|What are the basics of pop management?]]
## [[Chaff|What is Chaff, and how is it used?]]
## [[MT|Regarding the Mystery Trader...?]]
## [[Manual Problems|Am I crazy, or is the help file / manual wrong?]]
## [[Utilities|What downloads are available for use with Stars!]]
## [[Stars Supernova Genesis|What is 'Supernova' and what do we know about it?]]
## [[computer players|What are the PRT's of the Computer Players?]]
## [[Netscape|How do I get Netscape to handle my Stars files?]]
## [[How to Get Over 25,000 Resources by 2450 by Jason Cawley - 16th January 1999|How the heck do you people manage to get over 25,000 resources by 2450?]]
## About the game files
### [[Patches and versions|What about the various patches and versions?]]
### [[What is stored in the various Stars! game files?]]
### [[command line options|What command line options are available?]]
### [[*.def - Game Definition Files]]
### Tell me about [[Files Used in Stars!#Ini file -- stars.ini (in the Windows directory)|stars.ini]]
# Guts! The equations behind the game 
## [[Guts of bombing]]
### Defenses
### Normal Bombs
### Smart Bombs
### Heterogeneous (mixed) attacks 
## [[Guts of tech trading]]
### [[Tech Trade by Wolf-Lamb|how do I set up a wolf/sheep site?]]
### [[Tech Trade by Invasion|how do I set up invasions?]]
### [[Tech Trade by Scrapping|how do I gain tech from scrapping?]]
## [[Guts of research costs]]
## [[Guts of scrapping|Guts of scrapping/recycling/salvage]]
## [[Guts of fuel generation]]
### [[Guts of fuel usage]]
## [[Guts of Overgating]]
## [[Guts of beam deflectors]]
## [[Guts of Cloaking]]
### [[Overcloaking(Overcloakers) FYI by Ptolemy - 3 Aug 2004|Maximum overcloakers]]
##[[Guts of Minefields]], 
### [[Guts of minefields and sweeping]]
### [[Analysis of best speed in minefields]]
### [[crash sweeping]]
## [[Guts of population growth]]
### [[Overpopulation]]
## [[Guts of ground combat]]
## [[Guts of Planet Values]]
## [[Guts of Mineral Packets]]
## [[Score Calculation|Guts of 'Score' Calculation]]
## [[Guts of the Battle Engine]]
### [[Guts of targeting in battle]]
### [[Order in which Battleship weapons slots fire]] 
# [[Population Tables]]
## [[Standard Pop Table|Standard]]    (max. pop 1,000,000 on 100% planet)
## [[Standard OBRM Pop Table|Standard with OBRM]]  (max. Pop 1,100,000 on 100% planet)
## [[JOAT Pop Table|JOAT]]    (max. pop 1,200,000 on 100% planet)
## [[JOAT OBRM Pop Table|JOAT with OBRM]]  (max. pop 1,320,000 on 100% planet) 
# Additional info from the rec.games.computer.stars FAQ 
## [[Known Bugs]]
## [[Copy Protection Features]]
## [[Known Bugs|In-game "features" / "cheats"]]

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