New: The new frontiers 2 (free, open-ended, email, computer, space, wargame, economic, rpg)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:13:00 +0000

Name:		The new frontiers 2
Email:		flandar@yahoo.com
Frequency:		three per week
Type:		Multiplayer robotic space exploration and colonization
URL:		http://www.geocities.com/flandar/tnf2/index.html
Costs:		free
Last-Update:		2001Sep26
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, computer, space, wargame, economic, rpg

Description:

TNF2 is based loosely on the original game TNF (The New Frontiers)
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2979/ written and designed by
Jerry Revell Jerry@starchase.demon.co.uk.

Simply put the game is about space colonization. Each player runs a
corporation that is in the business of making money. You can make money in
many ways including collecting resources from distant planets or moons and
selling them on earth, designing new robots and leasing your design to
other to build, or even piracy.

All of your actives are done away from earth by robots and ships. You
create programs that control them and tell them what to do. You then
upload your program and initialize it. Your robot or ship will then run,
sending back the logs you requested. If all goes well you robot will
finish its mission and return with valuable resources. This may take
several different programs to do and depending on the activities it may
take a long time.

Programing in this game uses a MACRO language.	You don't need any
programming skills, just enter commands like MOVE, LOAD, COLLECT, REFINE,
etc.  If you have experience programming you can use advanced constructs
like VARIABLES, LOOPS and SUBROUTINES, but that is not required.

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