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

  • From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:04:17 -0800

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:18:48 -0800
Justin Burket <zorton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> James,
> 
> I'm interested in playing, but I think i've missed your game.  How 
> about a long term game? I was intersted in empire some time ago because 
> of the "disconnected" play over e-mail type setup.  One thing I never 
> liked about massive real time strategies was the lack of time to 
> properly plan attacks and defenses.  Something that could be played 
> over e-mail over the long term would be great fun.  Anyone know of 
> anything else that is quite like it?  Anyone else interested in 
> learning how to play and going long term?
> 
> Justin

I shut it down last night.

A long term local game is no problem.  The updates are really flexible - I can 
have them go every 24 hours, turn them off during the weekends, turn them off 
only on sunny weekends, only have updates on weekends, etc. etc.

You can't play this version of Empire over e-mail, you'd need to directly 
connect to the game server, but as long as you do it at least once between 
updates you're OK.  Backing off the updates makes that easy.  It also makes it 
easier to research exactly what you want to do & how to do it.

I can try to find the source for the e-mail version of Empire - I've never 
played it, but I've seen it referenced here and there.  I don't think it is 
really the same game, it just shares the name.

Cheers,

James

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