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?
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday July 12 2014, @03:08PM
http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/swrules.htm [flyingbuffalo.com] Starweb is a play by email game with most games running turns every 2 weeks. If you sign up be sure to let me know, wiping out a n00b early in a game will give me a huge advantage :)
Every time a Christian defends Trump an angel loses it's lunch.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Saturday July 12 2014, @03:45PM
Ha! A game produced closer to the Vietnam war than to today. Sounds like a winner!
Noobs must be hard to find these days!
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(Score: 2) by buswolley on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:40PM
But to last that long, it must be a good game. Re-read my comment and it sounded harsh, and I had meant it as funny.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Saturday July 12 2014, @08:17PM
I know this old geezer, (we graduated from high school together) who still played chess by mail up to about 2002/3.
His biggest technical leap was moving to Email. He still used a room full of (small) physical chess boards till a couple years later we found a program for him that would keep them all in his computer. (he would print each board, and tape it to the wall).
We (his kids an I) suggested to him that he could do all this on a smartphone or a tablet app, but we were escorted off of his lawn.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday July 12 2014, @09:26PM
Started playing it in the late 70's, played maybe 15 years before life took over. Ran across the company about a year ago and decided to try another game. It's still fun. Completely different from computer games and boardgames.
Every time a Christian defends Trump an angel loses it's lunch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 13 2014, @10:07AM
First time I hear about play by email game
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