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How did you find out about uqm?
| From a friend. |
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   4 (12.1%) |
| I played SC2 before uqm. |
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18 (54.5%) |
| StumbleUpon, or something similar |
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1 (3%) |
| I played SC1 or SC3 before SC2 or uqm |
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8 (24.2%) |
| I hit "random page" on Wikipedia |
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0 (0%) |
| Other |
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2 (6.1%) |
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| Total Voters: 31 |
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Topic: How did you find out about uqm? (Read 6358 times)
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lakota.james
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Someone probably already made a topic about this, but I'm too lazy to find and grave dig it. Nonetheless, I would still like you to vote. If you vote "other", tell me how you found it. thanks! 
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Yayap
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I had StarCon 2 back in the old DOS days.... actually, I still have the Disk for PC. My only regret is that I misplaced the original map that came with it with all the stars of interest indicated on it. I have yet to find a map on the net that was as simple and effective as the original.
Then a few years ago... I wanted to play Sc2 again, I even had it running on DOS Box before UQM showed up. But with the speech packs and 3DO videos, UQM caught my interest more than the original.
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Galactic
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I played Star Control 2 first, and those times (sorry for the cliché expression) I searched Google for "star control 2 fansite." This site wasn't there yet, but, what did I find, when I returned years later? UQM.
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NamelessPlayer
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I don't remember-it was a long time ago.
What I do remember was that UQM 0.4.0 was the latest version at the time, and that I may have heard of the project earlier, but shied away because I thought that, being a remake, it would have significantly altered some of the game mechanics, graphics, etc. like other remakes do.
Well, I gave it a shot, and soon I was kicking myself for never playing this game earlier. It soon managed to edge out the likes of Magic Carpet 2, System Shock 2, and Deus Ex as my personal greatest game of all time, and that is no small feat.
Sure enough, I had embraced everything about the game and became yet another member of the fanbase, plotting to do things like take over the world with Fwiffo plushies(which I still need to do), ravage everyone's eyes with glowy bits, make emo people wear masks and robes, and other sorts of crazy things.
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guesst
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Heh, I don't see an option of "I migrated from the Pages of Now and Forever."
I wonder what the percentage of curmodgons to youngins would look like, curmodgon defined as someone who played SC1, SC2, hated SC3, congrigated on the PoNaF and got excited at the announcement that the code had been released.
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Draxas
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I still have my old (now corrupted) bunch of disks for SC2 lying around. Back when I was in high school, there was a group of us who were totally hooked on the game. Sadly, my disks (as well as Windows' ability to run them correctly) conked out around 2001 or so, and since then I had been fruitlessly trying to get the game to run again until a friend told me about Abandonia. The blurb about SC2 there linked to this site, and I came to check out UQM for the first time mere days after v0.4 was released (which was the first version, as I understand, that was playable from start to finish; a happy coincidence, to be sure).
Why didn't I search the net for SC2 earlier? An excellent question, and one that I can't think of a satisfactory answer for.
SC2 was actually the first Starcon game that I actually played. It inspired my friends and I to try to hunt down a copy of the original, which we also played for a bit. While I had a great deal of appreciation for the additional backstory presented in the SC1 manual, I really didn't care for the actual game all that much. Of course, a few years later I played SCn3 from start to finish, and came away pretty underwhelmed, but that seems to be pretty universal for those who played SC2 first.
It's worth mentioning that even now, 15 years later, SC2 remains situated in my Top 20 games, if not Top 10. If only more games got it right in the way that SC2 did.
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chenjesummrnmhrm
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I was fairly young when my brother introduced me to the game. I played SC2, and I tried to play SC1 but couldn't figure out the rotating starmap.
I actually still have SC1 in a box somewhere. I should play it.
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