FA Goes to Space! : An Aurora-based Forum Game :D
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:04 pm
Greetings comrades! I bring great news from the Ministry of Tractor Development! The first Interplanetary tractor has been developed, allowing for us, the loyal Party members, to bring the ideal of the socialist agrarian society to the stars! Now all we need to do is figure out this "Astronavigation" and "Fuel Management" malarkey, and figure out why everyone keeps demanding we "Start producing actual metal and not bits of scrap we find in people's sheds".
For those of you who aren't aware,Aurora is a s̶i̶m̶u̶l̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶U̶I̶ ̶i̶m̶a̶g̶i̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ space-based 4x (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) game with added Microsoft Excel and a hearty dose of inaccessibility. Regardless of these admirable traits, it is can be somewhat hard for people to figure out, which is a shame for one of the most in depth space strategy games available. As such, I have put myself forward as sacrifice to manage a cooperative roleplaying/strategy game set in the game, where people can take control of the Party's fledgling space empire and conquer the stars!
It will proceed as follows: Firstly, People willing to take part in the game can reply to this post with a request for either a Civilian or Military leader position. I will also post a short series of questions for what kind of game people would be interested in (development level, Sol system start or another random system, etc). After a few days time I will formalize this and write a couple of State of the Party posts, where I detail our current position in the game and explain a couple of the key points. I'll be managing most of the numbers so you'll not have to worry about such things, but I'll do my best to explain everything. From then on the leaders will propose some plans and I will continue the game until most of those plans have been accomplished.
For those wondering if this would be up their alley, there's an existing LP on the SomethingAwful forums that has been going on for a while with some examples of the game and also possibly the most detailed tutorial of it in existence http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3474164
Anyway, if you're interested (And don't worry if you are unsure, if you desire to drop out at any time I can deal with it, as long as you let me know via PM or on this thread), please respond below with
1 - Your choice of a Military or Civilian leader [Mil/Civ]
2 - Starting a "Conventional" start (ie no sci-fi technology, slower to start but possibly the easier to explain) [Yes/No]
3 - Rival Empire from the get-go (Share homeworld with a Madtoaster controlled race that will provide friendly competition and if need be target practice) [Yes/No]
4 - Sol / Random System (Sol system is guaranteed to be "ok/good" in terms of mineral wealth and semi-habitable planets, random is a bit more unfair but I'll try to sort it out so it's not ruinous) [Sol/Random]
Anyway chaps, I hope you'd be interested in this, and if so, please respond!
Please.
I get so lonely.
For those of you who aren't aware,Aurora is a s̶i̶m̶u̶l̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶U̶I̶ ̶i̶m̶a̶g̶i̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ space-based 4x (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) game with added Microsoft Excel and a hearty dose of inaccessibility. Regardless of these admirable traits, it is can be somewhat hard for people to figure out, which is a shame for one of the most in depth space strategy games available. As such, I have put myself forward as sacrifice to manage a cooperative roleplaying/strategy game set in the game, where people can take control of the Party's fledgling space empire and conquer the stars!
It will proceed as follows: Firstly, People willing to take part in the game can reply to this post with a request for either a Civilian or Military leader position. I will also post a short series of questions for what kind of game people would be interested in (development level, Sol system start or another random system, etc). After a few days time I will formalize this and write a couple of State of the Party posts, where I detail our current position in the game and explain a couple of the key points. I'll be managing most of the numbers so you'll not have to worry about such things, but I'll do my best to explain everything. From then on the leaders will propose some plans and I will continue the game until most of those plans have been accomplished.
For those wondering if this would be up their alley, there's an existing LP on the SomethingAwful forums that has been going on for a while with some examples of the game and also possibly the most detailed tutorial of it in existence http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3474164
Anyway, if you're interested (And don't worry if you are unsure, if you desire to drop out at any time I can deal with it, as long as you let me know via PM or on this thread), please respond below with
1 - Your choice of a Military or Civilian leader [Mil/Civ]
2 - Starting a "Conventional" start (ie no sci-fi technology, slower to start but possibly the easier to explain) [Yes/No]
3 - Rival Empire from the get-go (Share homeworld with a Madtoaster controlled race that will provide friendly competition and if need be target practice) [Yes/No]
4 - Sol / Random System (Sol system is guaranteed to be "ok/good" in terms of mineral wealth and semi-habitable planets, random is a bit more unfair but I'll try to sort it out so it's not ruinous) [Sol/Random]
Anyway chaps, I hope you'd be interested in this, and if so, please respond!
Please.
I get so lonely.