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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 jackb_guppy on Saturday July 12 2014, @04:36PM
Played this at school and LHSB. Very fun. In high school we added a few extra commands include M5, so the computer would play for you as well.
http://www.kermitmurray.com/trek73/ [kermitmurray.com]
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:43PM
I think I played this back in the day or something like it...I think it was over a BBS....or maybe it was floppy, I forget now.
subicular junctures
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:45PM
Downloaded...Chrome reported to me that trek73.zip is not commonly downloaded and could be dangerous.
The dangers of being a fan of space themed turn based strategy games rears its ugly head!
subicular junctures
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 12 2014, @08:08PM
So a file that is commonly downloaded is harmless? And I always thought it is the content of a file which determine whether it is dangerous or harmless ...
Quick, eliminate the danger of all the viruses by downloading them en masse! ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Sunday July 13 2014, @03:59PM
There's a compiled copy of Trek73 for Android on the Google Play store:
Droid Trek [google.com]
I've just downloaded it - it seems to have some quirks, but *is* playable.
-Jar
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.
(Score: 2) by jackb_guppy on Sunday July 13 2014, @04:32PM
That appears to be StarTrader/StarWar. You travel from quadrant to quadrant to find and destroy the bad guys.
Trek73 you start out under attack with up to 9 ships attacking you. Best approach is find the attacking ship opposite of the largest hole in between the attaching ships and "attack"/pursue that ship at warp -9. So your strongest shield is in front of the oncoming on-slot. Then launch torpedoes has land mines for the the other ship to fly through. Watch those fuel reserves and regeneration rates! Since engines take power, torpedoes toss power "overboard".
(Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Sunday July 13 2014, @10:14PM
Ahhh OK. it looked the same in the screenshots. I'll keep looking for a phone version...
-Jar.
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.