What other games do you people play?

[Suicide Junkie]

Me and Se5a are doing a remake of the game, so it should soon be a lot easier and faster and graphical to play

Also moddable out the wazoo.

[dumbluck]

heh. Come, Baron, join us in ectastatic addiction...

[Kana]

I play an American Football simualtion called Goal Line Blitz.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/signup.pl?ref=1012223

[Randallw]

Anyone else play Astro Empires? I just joined a guild on the G server. Exiles Guild.

http://www.astroempires.com/

It's a bit of a mix of SE and a browser game.

[Xrati]

Just fired up Baldur's Gate 2 SoA the other night and played way into the night. Funny how some of the older games just get you hooked and before you know it, you should have been in bed hours ago!!!

[Makinus]

I was playing Emperor of Fading Suns recently and even started to create a mod for it based in Battletech, and it´s 1996 game! The community is in a low right now, but interest in the game sparks up from time to time...

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally Posted by Randallw

Anyone else play Astro Empires? I just joined a guild on the G server. Exiles Guild.

http://www.astroempires.com/

It's a bit of a mix of SE and a browser game.

I played this for as while. Disappointing how simplified it is. You can't design your own ships or bases. Everyone uses standard models of everything. Hardly any graphics, too. It's all about the math. It can be interesting but it could be so much more fun if they allowed a few more "standard" 4X features like custom ship designs or racial specific techs.

Then I found out about a knockoff that is a bit more detailed. It has a few interesting extras like cloaking. I'm just getting started but I'll play long enough to research some of the advanced techs and see how they work.

http://www.deepspace.outer-core.net/

If you're curious, signup through this link:

http://www.deepspace.outer-core.net/user/133/rec

[Randallw]

I actually quit AstroEmpires shortly afterwards. It was just setting queues, and I didn't want to start paying for it.

[Xrati]

That's good to know Randallw, thanks for the heads up. I just started on swcombine so I can't really comment on it.

http://www.swcombine.com/

I've updated my DosBox and started playing some moldie oldies!
Space Rogue
GATO
SimAnt
Starflight (I still have the 5¼ floppy, don't use it though)

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally Posted by Randallw

I actually quit AstroEmpires shortly afterwards. It was just setting queues, and I didn't want to start paying for it.

It does take a long time to accumulate some resources so you can do something. Several weeks even if you know what you are doing. But it is possible to play without paying for an upgrade. Especially if you use a Mozilla browser with the adblock extension.

The main problem is that it's a real-time persistent "world" with no 'save' or 'logout' options. Your bases are in the game 24/7 and someone can show up and trash your fleet at any time of the day or night. When you have to spend weeks "setting queues" to build up enough fleet to compete with the big players it can be extremely frustrating to have it all trashed at 4 am your time.

Belonging to a guild helps. You park your main fleet on a jumpgate with other members of your guild and form a "blob" where everyone watches each others' fleets. But of course, groups lead to politics and all the usual problems. You have to follow the rules to stay in the guild, so it becomes less and less a 'game' as guilds get bigger and more ambitious because they make more and more demands on the members. And you can get attacked just for being a member of your guild when another guild declares war.

So it ends up as a sort of online gang culture. There is occasional fun to be had trashing someone else's fleet. But it's mostly about the politics. The spreadsheet fleets are just the playing board for the politics.

This new game is especially nice in one way... there are so few players in this huge universe that you can do pretty much what you want. Although, what most people "want" is to form those gangs. The player base on that new server is already mostly composed of two rival guilds. I have formed my own guild and am staying away from the two big ones for now. We'll see how things develop.