New: TribeVibes (commercial, open-ended, email, mixed, historical, wargame)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 07:13:03 +0000

Name:		TribeVibes
Costs:		Minimum Cost is currently Aus$4 per turn.
Frequency:		Frequency: one per two weeks
Email:		dorsai1@netspace.net.au
Type:		Strategy - "diplomatic wargame" - historical
Last-Update:		2003May24
Keywords: commercial, open-ended, email, mixed, historical, wargame

Description:

There are wargames, there are diplomatic games, and there are games of
civilization. And among these games there are obvious trade-offs. The
wargame has the war already going, while the civilization game treats war
as an abstraction. TribeVibes blends the best and essential features of
these three genres.

In TribeVibes a player operates his tribe to the point of
micro-management. You assign people to feed the tribe, make weapons, make
tools, build, fish, scout the land and develop your various skills. You
have warriors, who can fight and work, actives who can work and inactives
who are essential for reproduction. And all of them eat. But where Tribe
Net makes its greatest deviation from the run-of-the-mill civilization
game is that the player determines what his Tribe is actually like. When
you achieve a 10 in a given skill you may conduct research into something
in that field that is unique to your Tribe. And what that is is largely up
to you. For example, a new weapon, new buildings, war-dogs, ninja,
gunpowder � you are limited only by the coincidence of your imagination
and historical fact.

You are limited in your knowledge of terrain. You are limited in your
knowledge of other tribes. The fog of war can be truly of Pea Soup
proportions, despite being able to interact freely with the rest of the
players through email. This is thus diplomacy in its purest form. The
power that you can project can be real or illusory. The diplomatic traffic
is intense, and the impact is great. Player interaction, involving players
from all parts of the globe, is the hallmark of TribeVibes, yet new
players are not exposed to the �excesses� of the longer term
establishment.

Much of TribeVibes is human moderated - and is not mechanical in its play.
With its long time span and need for thorough planning it has tremendous
appeal for the player who wishes to immerse himself in a game.

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