Imperium Seventeen - Beyond Poverty - Now Open!

[Griselda]

Sorry for the late start, but it is technically the 26th here in Oregon!

Here's the game page.

[TheArchduke]

Ultra poor? That is nasty.

[timmy827]

I assume the map comment means "unedited, aside from the crippling of your homeworld"?

[Sullla]

No, I swear that the game started that way! It was an amazing coincidence!

More seriously, I was impressed by my own computer skills in setting this up. OREO (the ancient Moo editor) won't run in Vista, but I managed to get the program running through DOSBox to set things up. I haven't had to do serious DOS navigation in about 15 years - that really took me back. I guess you never forget some things.

[RefSteel]

Game complete!

Thanks for creating this one, Sullla - it must have been great to find your old DOS skills still ready at hand when they were needed to wrestle Vista into submission!

[Sullla]

I'm not going to be able to design a new game before I leave today, and I'll be gone for most of next week. I'm sorry that I have not been able to give the MOO community more of my time of late... it always seems to be low on my list of priorities.

Someone is welcome to jump in and email Griselda with an Imperia idea if they have one they would like to do, or you can simply wait a week and I'll produce something for opening on March 2.

[Megafrost]

Sorry guys, I've been really busy lately and I couldn't find time to play this one. Maybe I'll give it a shot during spring break, but I won't be putting up a report.

[RefSteel]

This seems to be a very busy time of year (or of this year anyway) - I've had little time of late myself (and shouldn't have written such a long report for Imp17 - poor time management, but it was fun!) but I'm still looking forward to Imperium 18. I hope we'll get to see more of your reports, Megafrost, even if they're just quick summaries! I've thoroughly enjoyed reading all the detailed reports you've written, but can definitely understand the time crunch cutting back on them.

Speaking of which, thanks very much for putting all these Imperia together, Sullla; I'm still percolating some ideas of my own for sometime when I'll hopefully have more time to playtest and implement them (and hopefully others will have more time to play one) - any chance of a time when you might have time to play one yourself anywhere on the horizon? (I realize of course that horizons can be distant and receding; my schedule, for instance, looks like it might clear up a bit sometime after ... ummmm ... May?)

[TheArchduke]

I actually played this Imperium 4-5 times but I was unable to stand up against the AI as I feel way behind in industry and tech. Seems I still have much to learn.