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

  • From: Justin Burket <zorton@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:17:42 -0800

> I shut it down last night.
>
Anyone play?
> 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.
>
Cool, lets do it

> 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.
>
Yeah I had this version confused with an e-mail one I had investigated 
sometime ago.  I seem to remember a space based strategy that was 
played over e-mail on the mac.  Can't remember the name of the thing 
but something similar would be fun.

This is the trouble with modern online games, you have to be online all 
the time.  And for people like me who spend most of our online time 
over a wireless connection this can cause problems.

heck the whole world is going to the perma connection theory of life.  
I can't count the number of programs I use that have help files 
"online".  Kind of a pain when your sitting on your boat in the middle 
of a storm wanting to get some work done.

</rant>

Justin

> Cheers,
>
> James
>
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