Host Mode dialog

More Stars! Dialogs

Multi-player Games Only

The host mode dialog is used only by the host of a multi-player game. The person acting as host can choose to manually or automatically generate a new turn when all players have submitted their turns.

Roll Call

The upper-left corner of the dialog displays player status. Click on the blue diamond to learn whether a player is human or AI, and to change a human player from Active to Inactive. Once a player is inactive, a marginally competent AI takes over for the absent player to run his empire. When the player returns, click on the button again, selecting Active Player.

The dialog displays player's status as dead if they have been eliminated and no longer waits for a turn to be submitted by deceased players. The dialog also shows the status of players who have saved turn changes, but not marked their log file as turned in.

One Step Ahead

The upper-right corner of the dialog displays the year of the next turn. All games start in the year 2400.

Hurry Up and Wait

The amount of time since any change has been made, including the last time a player submitted or unsubmitted a turn, or when host mode was entered--any change made that would affect host mode.

Stars! The Next Generation

⇒        Click on Generate Now to manually generate a new turn.

This forces the turn to be generated regardless of whether all players have submitted their turns. In network games, all turn data saved by each player who hasn't yet submitted changes is used.

All unsaved changes made in unsubmitted turns will be lost.

Auto Pilot

Click on Auto Generate to tell Stars! to automatically generate turns when all players have submitted their changes.

Stars! will continue to poll the play directory, waiting for all players to submit their turns. If the Host Mode dialog is visible, it will only poll the play directory to see which players have submitted turns and which players are out. It will not automatically generate the turns.

Changing the Host Password

Click on Password... to create or change the host password. Player passwords are changed within the game. The password is limited to 16 characters.

Learn about:

Hosting a Multi-Player Game