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I've often felt that an updated version of Stars! would be very well received. So many current 4x games are hyper-micro-management and Stars! had a perfect balance (IMHO) between management and overall strategy.

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Planets[1] is still going and there's a maintained site with updated rules and quite a few people playing at planets.nu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_Planets

Alas, Planets.nu has no source code available. That's OK if you just want to play, but I really always wanted to make some changes, and to self-host (like you kinda could in the original vga planets)

The UI and server are relatively simple though, so it should be a fun exercise to vibe-code a clone based on phost and openplanets.

Actually, not needed apparently: https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2ng (there is even a web client at https://www.planetscentral.com/

Absolute banger of a game. About once every five years I get the urge to try and spin it up again.

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