NEW PBW Game : Galactic Realism

[geoschmo]

It sounds very interesting. There have been games with independant races before. Sometimes called uber races, sometimes observers, etc.

The main thing I can see as being a problem with this is it really depends on you as game owner maintaining you interest and activity in the game. Epic SE4 games like this can go on for months easy. We've had games running on PBW literally for years with regular, or at least semi-regular turns.

It's difficult for every player to maintain a continual interest in the game for that long. What normally happens is players will occasionally "drop-out" where they keep submitting turns more or less consistantly but "mechanically", where they don't really get involved in the RP aspects. Maybe just rebuilding after a big war or doing a phase of exploration. Or maybe just because sometimes real life takes a lot of time and you lose interest.

This is ok for a player because the game can continue more or less around them as the other empires get heavy into the interaction. But hen things depend heavily on the game owner like this if the game owner goes into a low involvment phase it pretty much ruins it for everybody else. It would be awesome if SE4 had the ability to have a computer controlled race that could follow logical scripts or whatever and fulfill this purpose. But it's not possible unfortunatly.

Just my two cents though. If you are up for the task it should be quite an experience for the players.

[Intimidator]

Yep, thanks....

Know what you mean, and offcourse you are right...
But is and always will be the problem with SIEV and in a few months with SEV.......

Nevertheless I wanna go for this one, because it is on my mind for over a year now (but wasn't able to start it untill now)

Also I can add for my credit that the preparations for this game are in full progress.
Am already writting (and wrote) a lot of scenarios for different factions, added with premade messages. so when the event occurs it's mostly cut&paste for me (will save me a lot of time )

BTW. I know that there are a lot of other game with Independent races before , but this will be the first one (I think) in which the gamehost will simulate tens of small factions (none related to each other), with different intentions (pirates, smugglers, mining coorporations, Mercenaries, nomads, refugees (and their foes), Independent shipyards etc etc....)

So again, sign up if you are fully interested and commited

Inti,

[narf poit chez BOOM]

SEV AI is scripted...