New Game

[Joseph Tveter]

I have been playing grown up for a while, but I think its about time to start another Space Empires game. That way I can pretend to be a kid for a few minutes a day.

For those of you who have never played it is a space game very similar to Civilization. Every Saturday and Wednesday I will send out a turn, or sooner if everyone sends in their turn. You will have till the next turn that is processed to send it back. This is normally done by e-mail. The game itself is old school enough not to require and real installation. I will share my dropbox folder with anyone who needs to install it. Just drag the folder somewhere once it all downloads and it will be immediately playable. You can give the game as much attention as you like. Most turns take a few minutes, unless you like to really micromanage, then they might be a bit longer.

In the past we have only played against the computers. This tends to make an exciting game till 3 or four of us find each other. Then the game loses a lot of its challenge, and in the end people tend to stop playing. Last game we discussed playing human team against human team to add to the challenge. We might even try several teams if enough people want to play.

I have started a forum for this game to help facilitate the game set up and organization. If you want to play join the forum. If you need the game e-mail me and I will share the drop box folder with you.

Feel free to invite any of your friends that might be interested.

spaceempires2012.proboards.com/

[sonofmardock]

just post the dropbox file on here, it will make it quicker, and you can password it(i think)

[Joseph Tveter]

I cant just put the folder here, I have to have their e-mail address and share the file with their account

But we can probably give it to your friends via usb key.

[prfiend]

I want the dropbox folder. Share with [e-mail] ~craig

[Joseph Tveter]

OK heres the plan.
The game will start on the 25th of June. There has not been much support for a team vrs team game. So at this point I with all the newbies playing I think we will do a computers vrs humans. The game will be played directly out of the drop box folder. There will be no need to make sure everyone has the right version or forgot to e-mail their turn in. Drop box will handle all the data transfers eliminating the need for email. When a file is changed in drop box it changes it for everyone. so when the turn is processed it will be automatically updated to everyone. If you want to play a game that everyone will not see, copy the space empires folder out of the drop box folder.

[Joseph Tveter]

We may be playing adults vrs children if Stuart can get his butt moving in inviting his friends that say they want to play. If not we may divide up people up into two teams so that have equal experance to make the battle fair.