...Wait, the Ur-Quan at Vela aren't supposed to be an instant game over, are they?

Ooh, that looks nice. The only change I don't think I like is the Fwiffo change...

I'll definitely download it. Perhaps the source too.


EDIT: And I do hope that this gets merged into the main branch at some point... with the possible exception of Fwiffo...

Maybe so, but the game itself doesn't specify the names. They can be changed at will. So it's more generic to simply say The Captain and The Flagship (unless you're talking about your own playthrough).

And yes, if you're wondering, I do change the names.

I wish people wouldn't call them Zelnick and Vindicator...

So, attempting to surround you and such-like...

I fail to see how JavaScript is an obvious choice...

But yeah, I don't think there'd be much interest in this.

And yet, a key point in many of the versions of this scenario was the fact that there wouldn't be time to form an alliance - the Kohr-Ah would pretty much wipe everyone out before they knew what was going on. If they received prior warning, from the Utwig or the Zoq-Fot-Pik most likely, or possibly even the Melnorme (though obviously they'd have to pay for that), then they might have time to form an alliance. And if they have time to form an alliance, they may be able to meet the Kohr-Ah before they get anywhere near their homeworlds, either in Mycon space or in the area occupied by the Ur-Quan in the actual game.

Of course, if they can't hold back the Kohr-Ah, or if they send skirmishers in to find and eliminate their homeworlds, that might not help. Still, with a functioning alliance I think they could stand a chance.

Here's a workaround: the Kohr-Ah get very heavy losses when powerful alliances form to oppose them; it then takes them a while to rebuild their fleet before advancing to the next sector. And keeping in mind that the Kzer-Za might be there, they make sure to build a massive fleet before going on.

Then it may even be possible that they would wait after destroying the Utwig, Supox, and Druuge, potentially giving the other sentients species time to band together properly against them. This assumes two things, though: first that the other species somehow find out about them (possibly via an Utwig envoy, since they have the Ultron, or perhaps by other means), and second that the Utwig make a big enough dent in their fleet for them to take the time to rebuild.

Yeah, loops like that lost me a game once...

In fact, if they know for certain that they've destroyed all species capable of space travel, they'd only need to leave one or two ships behind to cleanse those that aren't – a single ship would be able to destroy most such species, and with two or three I doubt the civilizations would be able to divert the fire from their cities as the Zoq-Fot-Pik did.

...Why is that bug still labelled NEW when it was reported two years ago?

This probably requires an administrator account.

Right-click (or control-click) on the folder and choose Get Info.
At the bottom right of the window that appears, click the little lock icon. You'll be asked for your password.
Give yourself read/write privileges (it should be fairly obvious how to do this). On 10.5, if your username is not already in the list, click the + button to add it; on 10.4, I think you choose your username from a "user" or "owner" popup menu or something (I can't remember exactly).

Also, if it doesn't work, you could try installing the game to /Users/<your name>/Applications instead of to /Applications.

I don't think either of those things alert you to Pluto. The commander says something if you don't go there right away, though. But really, you should probably go there as part of cleaning out the resources in the Sol system.

AFAIK the Mycon are 'newer' to the quadrant, having displaced the Syreen relatively shortly before the events of SC2,

No, it was earlier than that, since the Syreen were in the original alliance.

The Quasispace one is quite nice, but it's definitely not a remix. It's a different song!

The others I listened to were nice too (I didn't listen to Androsynth, Mmrnmhrm, or the one by someone else).