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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Subject: Re: What is Empire ??
Message-ID: <2035@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 19:06:23 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  9 19:06:23 1983
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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.