03-19-2011, 03:58 AM
(03-18-2011, 05:14 PM)Victory Wrote: This was one of the selling points in Galaxy Alpha in that flier I linked to earlier in this thread. Old StarMaster players can join GA and keep some of their tech.
StarMaster had a lucrative niche selling existing empires to new players. When someone was going to drop they instead sold their position to someone else (who either plundered it or saved themselves years of work). I know of empires that sold for hundreds and thousands of dollars. This same thing goes on today in the online games and there are chinese companies that just farm for resources to sell to players in game as well.
I recall paying $75 for a 12th generation empire in Galaxy Alpha, in addition to the fledgling empire that I had just started the game out with, not long before. I didn't play it very long, but long enough to attack someone, and then they and some allies laying the hurt on me.It's funnier now than it was back then, when I pause and think about it, today.
My view at the time was that it would take a lot more than $75 to reach 12th generation with my 1st generation race. The 12th generation position that I took over was called The Empire of Screams. It was already named that, when I took it over.