Topic: Who are the future players of SFC?

[TAnimaL]

In a discussion about ship design that spun out into a very geek techy exvhnage. Klingon Fanatic brought  some interesting questions about attracting newer players to this game, ones who care not for these uber-Trekkie schisms, and I thought it might be interesting to know more about who is here and how you got here.

Personally, I've been into Trek pretty hardcore since 1970, when it went into syndication. I've seen every episode of every series multiple times, my book shelves burst with novels and comics, and while commuting I listen to the soundtracks. I'm pretty hopeless. My kids peg me at a "7" on a 1-to-10 scale of ST geeks, only because they say I don't dress up in uniforms (Shh, don't tell them) To me, ST is TOS though ENT; I didn't like the JJ-verse movie in '09.

The tech of Trek was always a big appeal to me - blueprints, manuals, theoretical physics explaining the technobabble are my idea of light reading. I played the "Star Trek Battle Manual" wargame back in 1977, and when I saw my first copy of SFB in 1979 I bought it. College got in the way for a few years, but I rediscovered the game in the Commander's edition years. I bought everything ADB made from 1981 to 1994 eventually, and I played a couple of hundred games between 1986 and 1994. Since 2005 I've been playing SFC (1,2 and OP) with the same opponent I played the paper game with, at least twice a month though gamespy/ranger.

To me, this is a game for old school Trekkies like me, wargamers second, and maybe space-tech heads third. My son is just learning to play and likes playing with his old man, but I doubt it'll ever be his go-to game. My kids will watch ST with me, sometimes even at their request, but we do the same thing with Dr Who or Futurama. Family time.

I have many years of Trekdom in my future, and would spend $$ to see this game continue. I doubt SFC "X" wil ever sell like Star Wars Old Republic, but I think there are plaenty out there that want to see this game go on for years to come.

Who are you? A Trekkie? A gamer? How old are oyu and how long have you played this game. Where do you see it in the future?

[Darnoken]

I've had this game for years and loved it but never knew there was still an online community for it. From what I can see it seems there are servers online to play? And if so, how do I get into one. I've been searching the site but can't seem to find any information on it, and this seemed as good a place as any to post

[Kreeargh]

In a discussion about ship design that spun out into a very geek techy exvhnage. Klingon Fanatic brought  some interesting questions about attracting newer players to this game, ones who care not for these uber-Trekkie schisms, and I thought it might be interesting to know more about who is here and how you got here.

Personally, I've been into Trek pretty hardcore since 1970, when it went into syndication. I've seen every episode of every series multiple times, my book shelves burst with novels and comics, and while commuting I listen to the soundtracks. I'm pretty hopeless. My kids peg me at a "7" on a 1-to-10 scale of ST geeks, only because they say I don't dress up in uniforms (Shh, don't tell them) To me, ST is TOS though ENT; I didn't like the JJ-verse movie in '09.

The tech of Trek was always a big appeal to me - blueprints, manuals, theoretical physics explaining the technobabble are my idea of light reading. I played the "Star Trek Battle Manual" wargame back in 1977, and when I saw my first copy of SFB in 1979 I bought it. College got in the way for a few years, but I rediscovered the game in the Commander's edition years. I bought everything ADB made from 1981 to 1994 eventually, and I played a couple of hundred games between 1986 and 1994. Since 2005 I've been playing SFC (1,2 and OP) with the same opponent I played the paper game with, at least twice a month though gamespy/ranger.

To me, this is a game for old school Trekkies like me, wargamers second, and maybe space-tech heads third. My son is just learning to play and likes playing with his old man, but I doubt it'll ever be his go-to game. My kids will watch ST with me, sometimes even at their request, but we do the same thing with Dr Who or Futurama. Family time.

I have many years of Trekdom in my future, and would spend $$ to see this game continue. I doubt SFC "X" wil ever sell like Star Wars Old Republic, but I think there are plaenty out there that want to see this game go on for years to come.

Who are you? A Trekkie? A gamer? How old are oyu and how long have you played this game. Where do you see it in the future?

I am a modeler er somewhat. I enjoy Trek as well as other scifi , gamer? not so much and not a good one but yes I play one version or another of SFC once a month. I am in the $200 club, payed for all 4 versions of sfc at $49.95 . frakin ----    Future of sfc  HMM ? Well depends on what Frey wants for it. My guess    Facebook the crap out of it , its possable more will come stay and play.  For $7.00 one can have a great game that has Lots of modability and a community to support it.

Fans are the key?  Sell the game and hopefully the fixes will come to remake the glory of SFC. I would love to see the fleets fight agian in simmler SL

[Panzergranate]

I'm more of a wargamer.

I write historically and technically accurate rules, have written stuff for wargaming magazines and have run very large fast playing WW2 games at conventions.

I also enjoy WW1 naval wargaming, American Civil War and American Civil War naval wargaming.

My son bought the SFC game as NOS from a game shop back in 2007. He liked it. He didn't realise that I used to occasionally play SFB back in the 1980's at the local wargames club so I dug out all the old rule box sets from the backs of cupboards to show him how it works.

Compared to the grindingly slow pace that SFB games could crawl at, given some of the disputes that rules lawyers (don't you just want to shove them out of an airlock) could create, SFC was wonderfully fast plus did all the umpiring as well.

A few of the people we occasionally play LAN SFC with are either wargamers or old SFB players. One has never played SFB but now wants to try it out since I gave him a copy of the SFC CD and he printed out the Cadet rules.

Pretty much what will keep the game alive will be the same factors that keep SFB alive. SFC is a flexible wargame that can be expanded by the players to keep it interesting.

When one sees old 1920's WW1 wargames such as "Toy Soldiers" computerised and played (with computer animation of the pieces) on the X-Box 360, one can expect SFC to trundle on for a while longer yet.