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The Stars! Log program is designed to help players manage large and complex games by enabling the player to write notes and assign them to specific planets, fleets.  Each note can also be made specific year, and you can also make notes and record information about the other players or races.
 
The Stars! Log program is designed to help players manage large and complex games by enabling the player to write notes and assign them to specific planets, fleets.  Each note can also be made specific year, and you can also make notes and record information about the other players or races.
  
===Star Map===
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===Starmap===
 
*[[file:starmap10.zip|download starmap10.zip v1.0 28kb]]
 
*[[file:starmap10.zip|download starmap10.zip v1.0 28kb]]
 
*[[file:starmap.zip|download starmap.zip v1.0 28kb]] (from Micha)
 
*[[file:starmap.zip|download starmap.zip v1.0 28kb]] (from Micha)
 
Allows players to pool player information to create a graphic representation. Dos based, Nice output.
 
Allows players to pool player information to create a graphic representation. Dos based, Nice output.
 
:Besides ''slight'' differences in the starmap.exe size and date, I can't tell them apart.
 
:Besides ''slight'' differences in the starmap.exe size and date, I can't tell them apart.
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===StarMapper===
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[[Image:getjavalogo.gif|right|frame|[http://www.java.com/java/download/ Get Java now!]]]
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*[[file:StarMapper.zip|download StarMapper.zip v1.02 426kb]]
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*requires Sun's Java Runtime Environment v1.3.1 or higher
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*author:Jezuch
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StarMapper takes reports generated by the game and generates a map showing approximate empire territories.
  
 
===Stars! Message Reader===
 
===Stars! Message Reader===

Revision as of 07:31, 12 January 2007

In-game information processing/sharing

Habitability Filters

For filtering/sifting .pxx files to determine habitable planets.

Hab

Dos(commandline) program that outputs a list of inhabitable planets from the .pxx file present. Syntax:

Hab <game> <gravmin> <gravmax> <tempmin> <tempmax> <radmin> <radmax>

Contains two example .bat files that pipe the output to a file.

Hab kit

Hab kit is an excel macro to filter the New Player Reports for habitability. Contains instructions.

Habs

Similar to Hab, except that Habs prompts you for your hab settings, and then the hab of each planet.

Using the following data it reports 0% ?!? Grav: 1 to 1.2 Temp: -40 to 40 Rad: 80 to 100 Planet: 1.1/0/90

Planet Sniffer

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

Stars! Log

The Stars! Log program is designed to help players manage large and complex games by enabling the player to write notes and assign them to specific planets, fleets. Each note can also be made specific year, and you can also make notes and record information about the other players or races.

Starmap

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

Besides slight differences in the starmap.exe size and date, I can't tell them apart.

StarMapper

StarMapper takes reports generated by the game and generates a map showing approximate empire territories.

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.

Stars! Stat & Stars! Info

Otherwise identical DOS and Windows programs, respectively, that report on various aspects of the Stars! gamefiles such as the version, the presence of multiple turns in a .m file etc. Both incorrectly, but consistently, report the Stars version for v1.1a(reports 1.2a), v2.0a(2.65), 2.6i(2.81j) and 2.6JRC4(2.83) game files.

Territories

Territories is a Free Windows 95 mapping program for Stars! It imports the text data dumped by the Stars! program and based on that information, displays a map for you.

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.