Free game starting - Spoils of Empire - a computer-moderated strategic fantasy game

From: ram@eskimo.com (Rick Morneau)

Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Spoils of Empire (SOE) is a strategic fantasy wargame designed for
play-by-email.  It is open-ended and completely computer-moderated.
It is somewhat similar to games like Atlantis and Olympia, but
differs significantly in some very important ways:

1. The command language is a powerful subset of standard,
    grammatical English, and your orders will look like easy-to-
    understand, English sentences.  People and items have names,
    not numbers, and you can even use pronouns.  Here's an example:

Teleport Joe Flint to Ocean City and have him buy 51 horses
          and recruit 50 soldiers, and then come to Stanley and
          join me.

2. SOE is asynchronous.  Orders for your characters may be
    queued in advance as far into the future as you like, and you
    have complete control over the timing of their actions.  You can
    even have your characters repeat complete sequences of orders:

Have Trader Bill Caruso repeatedly go to Mount Loris and buy
          gems for 5 days and then go to Emporia Rex and sell them.

3. In SOE, you can even have "IF statements":

Fly to Amberton, and if Louisiata has at least 1000 soldiers
          then take them from her and go to Paloma and cautiously attack
          Genghis Khan; otherwise recruit soldiers.

There is no cost for playing Spoils of Empire.  I am retired and this is
one of my hobbies.  However, I will be limiting the number of players to
50.

If you think you might be interested in playing, please check out the
Spoils of Empire web page at:

http://www.srv.net/~ram/soe.html

It contains all the information that you'll need to enter the game.

The new game will start on Monday, March 27 at 12:00 UTC.  I will be
running three turns per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).  Keep in
mind, though, that the game is asynchronous, and you can prepare and
submit orders in advance that can keep your characters busy for many
days.

Happy Gaming!

Rick Morneau,
Gamemaster and designer of Spoils of Empire