New: Aqualia (free-moderation, closed-ended, email, computer, space, gui, wargame, economic)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:13:01 +0000

Name:		Aqualia
Email:		Aqualia@voyager.net
Frequency:		varies
Type:		strategy wargame
URL:		http://TheWarRoom.tripod.com/aquahelp.html
Costs:		free turns / $15 US Shareware
Last-Update:		2001Jan13
Keywords: free-moderation, closed-ended, email, computer, space, gui,
wargame, economic

Description:

Aqualia is a strategy wargame, that takes place underwater on a highly
unstable planet.  Players start with a single city/base which is capable of
supporting a population, factories, defenses, and ship building facilities.

Ship can be built by use of any combination of the 30 different parts, in
any combination up to 100 parts (15 unreg).  Ship designs can be stored
externally so you can add your favorite ship designs to each different game you
play in.  And with the designs being your choice you can build your ships to
fit your best playing style.

Players will have to find and extract resources to build and sustain thier
city or cities if they build new ones.  And in addition to problems they may
encounter with other players the shifting terrain can cause problems too.

The game has some "fog of war" characteristics, like that all ships are
either yours, enemy, or ally.  While ships are scaled a bit unless a direct and
successful scan of a ship is done you won't know exactly what you are up
against till the shooting starts.  Also, there are no "smart weapons", though
most weapons can travel through sectors containing ships, stacking of ship in
sectors that are fired upon, will cause all ships; yours, allies, and enemies
within that sector to possibly (depending on defenses) take damage from that
attack.

The host program supports up to 100 players per game, and alternate language
sets.  The INI file is quickly and easily edited from the default settings to
suit the game host's preferred settings.

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