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Ask Soylent: Turn Based Space Themed Strategy War Games?

posted by n1 on Saturday July 12 2014, @02:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the new-empires-to-conquer dept.

buswolley writes:

I am a fan of turn-based, multi-player strategy space-themed war games. I am not a fan of real-time games mostly because I ike to mull my decisions, and it is difficult to get everyone together at the same time.

Currently I play the aging, but still great Space Empires IV. This game has some great features including being very mod-able, and great depth and variety of game play). There are some other old but great space-themed, turned-based strategy games (e.g. Master of Orion), but most of these either had no multi-player, or required everyone to be playing on the same computer.

Anyone on Soylent play a great turn-based strategy games which is space-themed, of which I might not be aware?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Justin Case on Saturday July 12 2014, @02:45PM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Saturday July 12 2014, @02:45PM (#68116) Journal

    Konquest is a turn based war for galactic dominance, unfortunately though not multi player nor does it make much of a first impression visually.

    You can adjust the parameters to give yourself anything from an easy win to a vigorous fight. But even at the more difficult settings you can generally squeeze out a win if you think through every move and make no mistakes. And that's what I find compelling about Konquest.

    A game can be short or long, depending on how large your galaxy and how many planets to conquer. Also it seems to teach some lessons on strategy that would be applicable to any battle, or even to investing or business. In essence: deploy your limited resources carefully, and try to keep a positive return on investment.

    It comes (or used to come) included in several Linux distros, or can be easily installed with "sudo apt-get install konquest".

    Some drawbacks could easily be removed by a few source code tweaks (too many dialog pop-ups). Unfortunately the maintainer has not been heard from in years so any improvements are likely to be made on your own.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 12 2014, @02:59PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday July 12 2014, @02:59PM (#68117) Journal

    Actually Konquest is multiplayer. It just is not networked, that is, all players use the same program window.

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