SuperNova: Rise of the Empire

[ravenzachary]

Can you post any sample turn results?  How active is this game?  Are all the players in one game universe?  Are there factions and politics?

I've emailed the GM for a sample turn that is not my own, as people tend to be secretive about the details (including locations) of their empires. Once I get that, I will post it here and on the PBM Wiki as I start to assemble a library of sample turns from various games.

The Draco Galaxy game (the only one accepting new players currently) is estimated to be 100+ players and somewhere between 150-200 empires. Many players, including myself, play two empires. The Andromeda Galaxy game started over a decade ago and is closed to new players. That game has a slightly smaller group of players as it's now a war of attrition and survival vs. the established empires. I am not in that game, as I only joined the game 14 months ago.

Factions, somewhat. Politics, somewhat, but it's really a 4x game (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate). There is an alliance function in the game rules, and you can jointly colonize the same systems and/or planets and do trading with allies.

It can take 18-24 months to run into a another player in the game. Space is big. I am 14 months into the game and haven't run into another player yet. We have a new players online group to help each other, but no one on that group has run into another player yet, either. We will.

Turn results are long – 20-30 pages. After reading over the results, it's best to have a series of spreadsheets to track various aspects of the game and copy data into (systems, colonies, fleets, technology, etc.).