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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: 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.

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  • (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