toml@oliveb.UUCP (07/08/83)
What is Empire anyway?? -- Dave Long P.S. Sorry, but I don't know my system pathname, so PLEASE post an answer.
alb@alice.UUCP (07/10/83)
Empire is a territorial conquest game in which you are pitted against other players. The computer merely stores the records. Each player gets a country (there is one country who acts as God -- sometimes, the way the Deity plays can make or break a game) and must set up food chains, industries, technology, research, etc. etc. etc. Everything ties together. There are no basic guidelines, you set your own goals. There are wars and there is peace (and, of course, major groups of allies and enemies) Games usually last (in my experience) four to seven months.
zzz@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mike Konopik) (07/10/83)
Empire for UNIX, as released by Peter Langston, is a completely winning multi-user world-conquest game. It involves an imaginary world populated by countries. Each country can expand into adjacent sectors and designate them anything from harbors to banks or technology centers. It is an awfully realistic game if the parameters are set up the right way, and it gets to be an addictive thing if you like this sort of thing. What the trouble here is, is that we have releases for 11s floating around campus, and these are missing the vax.run file and, I think, one other file that prevents it from being brought up on a vax. We are looking for the release for a vax 11-750. Anybody out there that can help? -Mike genrad!eddie!zzz ZZZ%MIT-OZ@MC (ARPA)