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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, Insightful) by starcraftsicko on Saturday July 12 2014, @03:36PM

    by starcraftsicko (2821) on Saturday July 12 2014, @03:36PM (#68128) Journal

    Of course Stars! is an aging game as well, mostly dead really.

    It seems like anyone entering this area wants to make games with 'cutting edge graphics' rather than game play. Damn shame.

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  • (Score: 2) by bugamn on Saturday July 12 2014, @08:01PM

    by bugamn (1017) on Saturday July 12 2014, @08:01PM (#68227)

    Stars was great. I loved the different kinds of aliens I could play. Is there any easy way to play it now? Last time I tried, I had to look many different pages until I found some valid keys (it seems it it isn't sold anymore), and I had to run it inside Win3.11 on DosBox, as I was in Linux and Wine would make need to write the CD-key every time I played.

    • (Score: 1) by Lee_Dailey on Sunday July 13 2014, @07:09AM

      by Lee_Dailey (4438) on Sunday July 13 2014, @07:09AM (#68402)

      howdy bugamn (1017),

      the game still has the same gotchas. [*sigh ...*]

      the author[s] still won't release the source code, either. "too crufty, too win-16 specific." i would happily pay $50 to get the code released if only to remove the cd-key requirement.

      if you are still interested, the [apparently] last functioning website for the game is here ...
      Home World Forum: Welcome to the forum
      - http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=i&rid=0 [starsautohost.org]

      take care,
      lee

      • (Score: 2) by bugamn on Sunday July 13 2014, @12:48PM

        by bugamn (1017) on Sunday July 13 2014, @12:48PM (#68503)

        Thank you, kind person. :)

        Now to try to run it again!

        • (Score: 1) by Lee_Dailey on Tuesday July 15 2014, @06:54PM

          by Lee_Dailey (4438) on Tuesday July 15 2014, @06:54PM (#69395)

          howdy bugamn (1017),

          you are quite welcome ... and good luck! [*grin*]

          take care,
          lee