New: Merayakon-Chronicles (commercial, open-ended, www, computer, fantasy, wargame, economic, rpg)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:14:13 +0000

Name:		Merayakon-Chronicles
Costs:		free
URL:		http://www.merayakon.com/MChronicles
Frequency:		One per 2 hours
Email:		meteas@meteas.com
Type:		fantasy, role-playing, medieval
Last-Update:		2002Sep02
Keywords: commercial, open-ended, www, computer, fantasy, wargame,
economic, rpg

Description:

What is Merayakon-Chronicles?

Merayakon-Chronicles is a purely web-based RPG based on strategy, role
play and success. In order to be a high-end player, you need to excel in
management, role play and risk assement.

You will assume the role of a lord in a fantastic medieval context. There are
25 differents races and you will have to choose one (they will be discussed in
the following chapter). Your subjects, which will constitute your population,
will all be of the same race as you. So, not only will you strive to bring your
people to the top, but you will also represent your race (species in some
cases!).

You will have to make crucial decisions which will directly affect your
fate. You
will lead your people through ups and downs of everyday life and during
exceptional moments. The Council of the Lords, which represent the
superior
power in MC, will initially grant you a realm where you will hopefully prosper.

This realm is your sanctuary. MC is not a conquest-centered game, meaning
that you will not acquire more land that what has been attributed to you by
the Council of the Lords. Why is that? The whole point of MC is not to allow
players with different availabilities to prosper or die solely on luck. For
example: if a hundred lords decide to expand their realms, and for 2
consecutive years, they simply expands all day long, at least a few of them
will be lucky enough not to be noticed, thus attacked, these few will be
unbeatable simply because they were lucky enough to be left alone, and the
game will slowly become boring.

Your realm is divided into counties. You will begin with one county, but
you can, if you want, colonise up to 10 counties, including the first one.
Each county is managed separately, meaning that you can decide to go one
way with a county and to go another way with another. The cumulated
strength of all your counties represents your lord's real power.

In MC, you can be a traitor, a warlord, a pacifist,a criminal or even a
king. It all depends on how you feel, on what role you decided to play.

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