New: StarCluster (free, closed-ended, email, mixed, space, wargame) From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:13:07 +0000 Name: StarCluster Email: leif+pbmadmin@lysator.liu.se Frequency: two or three per week Type: space strategy URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/pbm/starcluster Costs: none Last-Update: 2001Oct11 Keywords: free, closed-ended, email, mixed, space, wargame Description: StarCluster is a sci-fi strategy game with a story where the players each control a human colony in a distant star cluster after a war with an alien race has interrupted communications with Earth, and the initial colonizatin effort in the star cluster fell into disarray. The game is mostly computer moderated, but the maintainer occasionally adds a rumours section or similar to the turn reports, and sometimes manages the interaction between players and NPC empires in the game. A definite limit of 99 turns has been imposed on the game, but in practice, the game is usually over after some 50-75 turns depending a bit on what the campaign configuration parameters are (in particular the layout of the map, which varies between games). There is no charge for the game, as it is theoretically still being developed, so you may have to be prepared to get what you pay for... However, in practice, the game has been quite stable since about June 2000. New campaigns are typically started as the old ones finish, and I don't usually keep more than 3-4 campaigns running at the same time. At the time of writing this (October 2001), there's only one current campaign and one new about to start. [ This is a new entry for the PBM List. You can find the list itself, and instructions for adding games or comments, at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/ -- greg ] Up