Re: PBEM computer games

From: Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au>

Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:51:29 +0000

Adastra wrote:
>
> I am looking for a strategy game that I can host my own game for 4 or so of
> my friends.  I want one which I can play a turn in 10 to 30 minutes during
> my lunch hour, but will have a winner within 2 to 3 months.  It should have
> a solo play component and a real-time option would be nice.

[... snip as I really don't know about these games ...]
>
> Galaxy and VGAPlanets look like they would be similar to Stars.  Am I right?

No. Galaxy is quite different to them both... Turns are plain
text email, and really need a client program to read effectively
(I have played one game without client helpers, but it was hard...)

Simultaneous turn resolution, either a preset times or on
demand (especially if you're running the server)... Turns
can take as little as 5 minutes, or up to a number of hours
as the game progresses (my record was 13 hours for a game with
30 other players when I owned 600+ planets and had over 2000
groups of ships to deal with, whilst being at war with 5 other
players - this is the extreme end of the scale though)

See http://galaxy.pbem.net/index2.html for more details
(I really like playing Galaxy, I admit ;-)

Cheers

Webko

References

PBEM computer games
"Adastra" <adastra1960@hotmail.com>
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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PBEM computer games
"Adastra" <adastra1960@hotmail.com>
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000