Talk:Netrek

message: I pulled the following links for the following reasons:
* Some utilities and documentation
these utils are outdated and also archived at netrek.org. 
* Netrek Australia
site decommissioned. 
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their netrek entries are pretty messed up. they don't quite have the concept of one game with many clients in their architecture, so shoehorning in accurate entries may be a challenge. 
--Akb4 06:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: pulled links

message: I have two questions which are not covered in article:
* How does a player actually begin playing this? Do they download software? Is there a fee?
* What is the manner of gameplay? are there multiple deaths and kills during gameplay? How do players regenerate?
thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 18:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You start playing by going to a distro website (netrek.org or playnetrek.org) and downloading a client. Like the opening paragraph says, there are no fees. When killed, a player drops back to the ship selection screen, chooses a new ship, and pops back into the game next to their home planet. Getting killed is a frequent occurance; the main costs are that you lose any armies you were carrying, lose your kills (and thus must destroy other ships before you can carry armies again), and your position changes; it might be a long flight from your home world to the battle front, and every second you spend flying there is a second the enemy might be creaming a planet or your team-mates. On the other hand, getting killed gets you a brand new ship, and if you can get opponents to chase you to someplace remote and then kill you, then they are left off in a corner with no fuel while you have a fresh ship closer to the action. -- Akb4 (talk) 20:11, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  game basic 

message: I've removed the paragraph about moving to 50 FPS because it hasn't happened and shows no signs of happening. Like some other parts of this article, it seems to have been written by an optimistic coder.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.30.146.233 (talk) 10:11, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Incorrect. The code has been working for ages; at least two clients (paradise 2000 and XP) support it and the server code does as well. The most-used servers still run at 10fps to please players who like it that way; as with IPv6, it's unclear how long it will take for the new technology to uptake.  -- Akb4 (talk) 08:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  50 frames per second? 

message: Older versions (2007) of this article had more accurate descriptions of ship classes.  It looks like they were removed at some point and then re-added again later. I think we should bring back the old descriptions.  
69.231.230.60 (talk) 07:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ship classes 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The version 02:41, 7 June 2020‎ InternetArchiveBot of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 07:51, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  translation into Chinese Wikipedia 

message: The "Reception" section refers to a DIFFERENT game on the Mac called Net Trek - it's a more arcade style game that was for three players (Starfleet, Klingon, Romulan). If you go to the issue of MacWorld that's cited, on page 172 there's a screen cap from that game.  2601:642:4A00:B080:6DBA:6D8C:BEE4:2945 (talk) 06:10, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The author of the Mac game talks about its history on his website.  Any chance that the mention can stay here?  The MacWorld article gives it notability but I don't know if it's enough for a stand-alone article. (Also found a brief mention in The Secret History of Macintosh Gaming.) – Reidgreg (talk) 20:52, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Netrek vs. Net Trek