[juneau-lug] Empire Sunday, 24 April 2004 0900

  • From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jlug <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:26:19 -0800

Keeping with the games theme we had last meeting, I'll be hosting an Empire 
game tomorrow.  Empire is a very very old network game that I used to play on 
the VAX at UAF in 1987.  It has been updated over time with GUI clients, new 
features & bugfixes.  But if you want to play it in text mode on a VT102 
terminal like I used to, well that will still work too.  Server-Client 
communication is essentially a telnet session so you don't need a lot of 
bandwidth.  In fact, in games with daily updates (or even updates every 72 
hours or weekly) you don't need to be online more than a few minutes per turn.  
Empire is kind of like Freeciv, but a little more detailed & a little more 
intense.  It is also like chess - easy to learn, hard to master.

This game: Juneau-LUG RainFest Blitz No.1

Nothing special - a stock build of Wolfpack empire 4.2.14 (see 
http://www.wolfpackempire.com).

I'll keep it a stock build so anyone interested in learning Empire will have a 
standard environment.  I won't be playing (hard to play & be the diety at the 
same time), but I'll be around if there are any problems.  You will need a 
client.  See http://www.wolfpackempire.com/clients.html for some plain text and 
GUI clients.

server:         Seawolf.juneau-lug.org
port:           6542
level:          newbie
Game start:     0900 24 April
Updates:        Every 30 minutes

Ten countries set up, with country-name "1" representative (password) "1", etc. 
etc.

Use the "change" command to rename your country (before you break) and the 
break command to start playing, updates every 30 minutes.  I don't expect all 
the countries to be used, but I'll leave them in play just in case someone 
shows up late.

If anyone is interested, I can run a game every weekend, or a 24-48 hour update 
long-term game that lets you set your own schedule for playing.  These tend to 
take a long time to finish (months) but are good for learning as you have time 
to read the documentation during your turn.  I'll try to get 
seawolf.juneau-lug.org set up with the Empire documentation.  Until then, see 
http://www.toger.us/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3 for some good 
info.

Cheers,

James

Links again:
http://www.wolfpackempire.com
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/clients.html
http://www.toger.us/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3

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