Year In Review: 2022

Welcome to the Year in Review for Starmourn 2022! Here you’ll find a summary of new systems, major events, and noteworthy player RP that’s taken place over the past 12 months in addition to tons of bug smashing, rebalancing, skill updates, and more!

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Starmourn 2021 Year in Review: Celebrating our Best Year Ever!

Hello Spacers! The time has come for our end of year roundup, and I hope you’ll all agree that it has been an AMAZING year for Starmourn. We saw the introduction of player housing, real world player shops, Hardcore mode (permadeath), daily streaks, battlebots, a ship arena, several major new areas, a new tradeskill, a…

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Possibly the greatest sci-fi book I’ve ever read

Just finished book three of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy, by Chinese sci-fi author Cixin Liu. The first book was very good, the second (which had a different translator than the first) I didn’t like quite as much, but oh my god, the third book – Death’s End – was absolutely incredible. I cannot…

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Mass Effect: Andromeda

Seen the new trailer? I love Mass Effect! I love the lore, the setting, the tone, the storytelling, and the gameplay. It hits all the right buttons in sci-fi for me.

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Independence Day: Resurgence

I was stuck on a plane for awhile yesterday, so watched the new Independence Day. It’s the kind of movie I’d probably only choose to watch when I’m a prisoner in a metal tube. I mean, it wasn’t just bad, like the first one – it was terrible. I’m not sure there was a single…

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Westworld is a MUD

Are you guys watching Westworld on HBO? If not, go do it. Find a way to watch it! It’s fantastic, and one of my favorite things about it is how unbelievably similar to designing and running a MUD or MMO the show is. For those unfamiliar, the tl;dr is that customers come to this fake…

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