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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:54:55 GMT, Memnoch
<memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:35:34 +1200, Peter Huebner <no.one@this.address> wrote:
>
>>In article <0r6o73hhn9c74vbsitt882jnc82pgd0ame@4ax.com>, 
>>memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com says...
>>> For a while now I have been trying to remember the name of a game I played a
>>> year or so back. It was a space combat game with strategy/RPG elements, as far
>>> as upgrading your ship was concerned. It was all played out in third person,
>>> you could upgrade your ship as the game went on to destroyers or carriers and
>>> one of the last weapon types you got was a kind of black hole/point
>>> singularity projector. You could attach all sorts of addons to your hull like
>>> litterally dozens of different armours, each with different effects and as the
>>> game progressed these would increase in level/effectiveness. Also there was no
>>> up and down, everything playing out on a flat plane but there were planets and
>>> stars to fly around, although hopelessly out of scale. It was the typical
>>> affair where you fight one enemy and then part through the game another enemy
>>> is revealed, which reminded me a lot of the Bionts from Archimedean Dynasty,
>>> before they ruined the rest of the series later on.
>>> 
>>> Anyone remember or even picture this game? I keep thinking of Star Wolves but
>>> its not that as you can go up and down as well.
>>> 
>>
>>Star Fury comes to mind as a game that is played in one level i.i.r.c. (green 
>>grid overlay?), put out by Malfador Machinations, the Space Empires people.
>
>No overlay in the game I am thinking of. And it was single player only. I've
>been doing some more searching on google with no luck. Kind of annoying this
>as I remember being bored one day and searching for space combat games and
>found it by accident. You could fly into clouds of gas and hide from the enemy
>in one of the levels near the end and then pop out and attack. One of the
>upgrades you could attach when flying a carrier was a drone launcher but I
>didn't bother with that much.

Found it! The game was called Space Empires: Starfury. As soon as I saw the
armaments screen I knew it was the one. Recommend it if you are after
something a little different and don't let the graphics fool you as there is a
great little game trying to get out!