If you are actually playing and just happened to have a "drunken" moment while typing, here are the essential tips from experienced players on the Starcom Steam Community :
By midnight, my sleek cruiser had mutated into a sprawling, asymmetrical monstrosity. I named it the Sobering Thought , mostly out of irony.
We've all been there. It’s late, you’ve had one too many, and you decide it's the perfect time to scroll through eBay. Before you know it, you're three glasses of wine deep and seriously considering dropping a hundred bucks on a broken 1980s space toy. But sometimes, in that gloriously hazy state of mind, you stumble upon something truly special. For me, that "drunken starcom best" moment happened last month when I found myself completely obsessed with a nearly-forgotten gem from my childhood:
"To the High Fleet Command... I am transmitting this log to show you my drunken Starcom best. We lost the left warp nacelle, the crew is singing ancient Terran sea shanties, and I accidentally traded our remaining helium-3 for a cargo bay full of space tribbles. But guess what? We bypassed the Orion blockade anyway. You're welcome." Why the Phrase Resonates
In internet slang, doing your "drunken best" refers to the humorous, often chaotic attempts at achieving success while under the influence or sleep-deprived. It represents uninhibited creativity, accidental genius, or spectacular failure. Scenario A: The Late-Night Fleet Commander
There is a profound beauty in this incompetence. I once recall a session where I had consumed enough IPA to pickle a small hippo. I was surrounded by Drenlyn cruisers, a scenario that would usually prompt a strategic retreat. Instead, my drunken brain decided the best course of action was to overload my engines and ram the flagship. It was a terrible strategy. It defied every mechanic of the game. Yet, through a miraculous convergence of lag, luck, and the erratic unpredictability of my own inputs, I won. My ship was a smoking ruin, drifting on a trajectory that defied physics, but the enemy was space dust. That was my Drunken Starcom Best.
So, the next time you're feeling down, or just need a good laugh, take a look at "My Drunken Starcom Best." It's a hilarious and relatable look back at some of the silly things we did while under the influence, and a reminder that, no matter how ridiculous we may have been, we can always laugh at ourselves.
In my hazy wisdom, I landed on —the ace pilot hero of the series. While the Shadow Force figures had cooler, edgier designs (those bad guys always look cooler), you cannot beat the original Starcom crew. Searching my memory (and double-checking on YouTube the next morning), I realized the engineers built the Star Wolf vehicle so that when you pressed a button, the front folded down and the wings sprung out automatically, all without a single battery in sight . The "Power Deploy" features were mind-blowing for the 80s. It was all spring-driven, wind-up mechanics that were incredibly satisfying to activate.