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How did you come across mention of Empyrean Challenge???
Also, if you’re up for a competitive one on one, we could take Davin’s Galactac out for a spin and stream updates to this forum...
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I’m up for that! My goal - do an open game with cheesy-humorous role play banter on this forum, like we once did with Far Horizons (which ranks among my favorite PBM game experiences.)
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Sounds great to me!
If you'd like to set one up, use the web site to ask for a game with plenty of players so that anyone can sign up that wants to play. I can cause it to start whenever we think that everyone's joined that wants to. (And of course, I'm still providing a couple of years of free play time for those that don't have it, simply for the asking.)
You'll want to choose how often the turns run, probably once a week or once every other week. Since it would be an open and frivolous game, missing a weekly turn occasionally isn't going to be too annoying. (You could even play faster, but not everybody has enough free time to spend on a fast game.)
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I myself shy away from local client installations. You can submit all orders through the web site. Also, the site provides “suggested orders” for the first few turns - this demos the order framework and ramps you up quick. I haven’t run a big position yet, but I imagine 2 possibilities when running a big position:
- use sentries, patrols, supply runs, etc to lighten the load
- gorge upon the minutiae
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Commands such as SHUTTLE are provided and necessary to keep your economics and other boring stuff running in the background so you can concentrate on the fun stuff and conquer the galaxy more enjoyably.
FYI - The GTac Assistant comes as an installer for convenience, but it really is no more than copying files to a directory. If your complaints simply have to do with what the installer is doing to your system, I'd be happy to help you with a zero-interference setup.