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Currency Traders: A free multiplayer telnet strategy game |
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Update 4Feb2012: A new Currency Traders game has just started. Try it at the link below. It's been down for quite a few months in search of a server. However, it's found a tiny microserver that works just fine. This game is running in a persistent world so that resources you build or acquire will be there when you next log on -- with the possible exception of some other player destroying something. But, you'll be alerted if something like that happens as well...
The first (known) variant of Space Tyrant (ST) is up for testing. Currency Traders is running a small (40,000 sector equivalent) game on port 23 here.
The scenario of the game is completely different from ST. It is set in a post-apocalyptic series of cities where you start out in Los Angeles. From there, you trade in 'hard' currentcies among the many shops and loot the scattered unmanned warehouses. The currencies are Gold Chains, Weapons, Alcohol, and the cash is Silver Coins.
Many other things have changed from ST. To recruit a 'gangster' to your gang costs 100x what buying a fighter costs in ST, for example. There is also a new object: the 'Crib'. Cribs are converted from empty warehouses where you and several teammates can hide under the watchful protection of your gangmembers.
The game also has random and requestable hints and tips. A hint is a general piece of game-play information and a tip is a context-sensitive suggestion about what you can do in your particular situation.
The webpage is at TEOTWAWKIgames.com read more... |
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| mail this link | permapage | -Ray, June 12, 2011 (Updated: February 4, 2012)
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Space Tyrant Game Universe Structure |
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(Note: The new ST test server URL is telnet://TEOTWAWKIgames.com/)
A Space Tyrant (ST) game has a universe with a single, variable sized galaxy and some number of additional 'outer' galaxies of 8000 sectors each. These outer galaxies are each one of six galaxy types. Those six galaxy structures are:- Open Cluster galaxies have all one-way connections and each sector has six such links.
- Spiral galaxies are a bit like a torus with two-way links interconnecting the sectors. Each sector connects to the sectors immediately above and below it, to two sectors a short distance above and below, and to two sectors a longer distance above and below. The ends of this structure connect to each other.
- A Giant Globular galaxy is a cube of 20x20x20 sectors connecting to the six adjacent sectors in each direction.
- Bar galaxies 5x5x320 sectors in shape.
- A Globular String galaxy is a collection of 64 small 5x5x5 sector cubes connected to the cubes above and below from the corners.
- Irregular galaxies are the most maze-like of the galaxy types. Each sector randomly connects via two-way links to from 1 to 6 other sectors.
In addition to the outer galaxy types above, there is one special galaxy type:- The Elliptical galaxy is much like the Open Cluster except for two differences. The Elliptical varys in size from 2000 sectors to 400000 sectors and is 'stretched' so that it can be much longer than it is thick. To travel from one end of a large Elliptical galaxy to the other can be quite a long journey. Each game has only one Elliptical galaxy. It is the very first galaxy -- where all players start for the first time in a given game. This first galaxy contains spaceports linking to every other galaxy in the game.Recently, a change was made to the 'outer' galaxies. Now each outer galaxy also contains spaceports linking to every other galaxy of the same galaxy type. That makes it possible to travel from any Bar galaxy to any other Bar galaxy without ever entering the main, Elliptical galaxy.
The outer galaxy spaceports were added in version 0.331 on 4/20/2007. |
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| | mail this link | permapage | -Ray, April 20, 2007 (Updated: February 1, 2012) |
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