Re: BSE: What is it?

From: richc@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Richard William Chiang)

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 03:02:09 +0000

Marios Chrysopoulos (chrysop@ics.forth.gr) wrote:
: Hi, i think subject says it all...I've seen lots of people talking about
: BSE...CAn anyone explain to me what it is?
: (ehm...don't tell me it's a a game - i know that!  ;)   )

: 	Thanks a lot,
: 		Marios

I don't want to repeat anything already said so I won't.  Just to give
you some information.  BSE is probably the oldest Space Opera around and
has been lagging recently.  The company who was doing the game was also
involved with Magic: the Gathering Cards and guess which got more
attention.  The game just got sold to Rolling Thunder Game and all signs
point to a resurgence.

This game allows you to do all sorts of things.  The last poster forgot
to mention research.  There are alien races, neat physic like problems,
and just good old technology research to do and will likely play a large
part in the game in the future.  Also, BSE is opening up a completely new
area that will be connected to the old areas (BSE is old and there are
some really well established players), but it will be designed to allow
everyone a fair chance to dominate it.  So it is probably a good time to
enter.  Also, some affliations are hurting right now because of the
innattention BSE received and can use some aggresive new players.

BSE is not inexpensive but it is not too bad.  But it can get very
addicting so your phone bill may go up a bit or just maybe just your
email traffic.  To run a ship costs $20 a month, but since you can run
more than one ship (but you need to earn them) it can quickly go up so
play according to your resources and time.

An old version of the rules are available via anonymous ftp from:
io.com /pub/usr/kerry/bse

Download the large zipped rules file.  Also if yuou have time download
the IDB.zip file.  It is the Imperial Data Base from 4 (?) years ago just
to give you an idea how HUGE and diverse the BSE universe is.

Richard W. Chiang

BTW, I am in the QSN affliation and we are searching for a few good
players right now.  We offer large ships to new players because if you
are going to work for our group we rather you haul large amounts of goods
or have a real fightning ship to help us in our battles.

If you have any questions on the QSN or BSE in general email me.

References

BSE: What is it?
chrysop@ics.forth.gr (Marios Chrysopoulos)
Wed, 07 Dec 1994 08:55:15 +0000