Neptune's Pride

[A®heim]

So I was reading an article on Rock, Paper, Shotgun about this super simple online browser conquest game called Neptune's Pride.

www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/10/pride-and-falls-neptunes-pride-diary-part-1/

If you read this you will likely come to the same conclusion I did: this sounds just like something we would do. We here meaning the bunch of SWU nutcases who measure dominance in Battleship records and games of Risk.

I mean to organize a game of this--it will require minimal time out of your busy schedule as the game's pacing is more or less log in for 5 minutes, build some ships, and tell them where to start trickling off to for the next 30 hours. You can DL it here: np.ironhelmet.com/

I'll make the game but I'll wait til we have a full team to start.

Gentlemen, ladies, this is the final test. Who has what it takes to dominate the galaxy NOT with dues ex machina and moon-implosion lasers, but with real-time tactical and diplomatic genius!?


Ha ha haaaa.... we're all gonna die.

[Vipervertical]

Player 2, standing by.

[Jazen]

Whatever, I'll try.

[Rugs]

I'll try anything once

[A®heim]

Awesome. That's half a team! Anyone else? Jace? Sporky? I know there's people out there who would never pass up an oppurtunity to make us all kneel before their might!

[Silas]

All I have to say is this:

"Logan: 1"

And here. we. go. :3

[A®heim]

That makes five. There's still three slots open!

[A®heim]

Double post I know shame on me anyway.

I think I got it figured out:

It costs a bit of money to host (and join) a custom game, but I found a free one with 0/8 players so I think the solution is obvious. Create an account, log in, and join this game: LINK

The game starts once all 8 slots have been filled, we don't want any random strangers so let's get this done quick!

[Vipervertical]

Okay guys, two slots open right now. And if you happen to be named char I recommend stepping forward now. If not, prepare to be blasted into oblivion by an alliance of every other member.

But again, two slots.

[Mara]

I might be in. I just need to look around a bit. I should have an answer tomorrow/later today, whatevers.

[Vipervertical]

Sorry fellas, game started. Any group messages can be posted here or sent in-game to the other players. Remember, THE SOUTHERN SPECIES WILL FALL TO OUR SWU MIGHT.

[A®heim]

Let's post our death threats to char!


Your kind are unworthy of a subject

Your people are but a mere blood-sucking parasite lapping at the lifeblood of the chosen people of this galaxy. It is thus that the extent to which you disgust we the Gluuk'Tahd of Alathfar that we declare this official statement of war. Savor your final moments as the combined strength of an alliance of superior races carve a bloody swath through your very existence.

[Rugs]

Here's mine, from my apparently-zealous turtle people:

Your race of glowy-blob things are an affront to the gods of our holy shells! Your end shall be swift, and songs will be written about the screams of your pagan children as they burn to ash. We will accept nothing less than your total descturction, interloper.

[Vipervertical]

I sent them to every species south of Silas

To char:

Acknowledgement

Your pitiful species shall not last under our combined might. I suggest you surrender now before you truly suffer our wrath.

I got more creative at kumiorava:

Disgusting

You worthless piles of filth are an affront to the galaxy. We find your visage so disturbing that we take this time to declare war. We shall henceforth cease all operations to carve a bloody swath through the stars to reach your pitiful systems and wipe you off the galaxy.

And to Corndog:

Worm

You. Just...you...

[A®heim]

To Kumiorava

Be assured that the terminal through which this declaration of your inferiority was sent has been decomissioned and shot into the great star Alathfar so that we, the great Gluuk'Tahd, be reminded never more that we inhabit a galaxy alonsgise a race whose head resembles the instrument with which we clear our roots of excrement. Take further solace in the knowledge that soon you and all other Southern Abominations will be swiftly purged from the universe by the Chosen North Alliance. Make your peace and prepare whatever petty resistence you dare to muster against your inevitable annihilation.

[Rugs]

Battle lines have been drawn

There is much work to be done, gentlemen. The Northern Alliance will stand strong against the pagans

...until we turn on each other, but that's beside the point

[Silas]

To the two who have chosen to defy our superiority:

Your blood will fill the bathtubs of my soldiers as we tear you from crotch to eyeball and send our dogs to wallow in your carcasses. Thank you for the good sport.

Love,
Silas.

[Vipervertical]

Okay everyone, nobody bother studying speed. Sorry if you already have, but I'm planning to spread out the wealth in that area. At least until the inevitable betrayal, but that won't be for a while. So my stuff will go mainly into science and I should get speed tech very quickly. So yeah, research something else.

EDIT: My border is not to be crossed e_e

This image was never altered from its original, no siree. I would never have extended my border slightly and rehost the image and replacing the original representation of my border. Why that would just be rude.

[A®heim]

I made my own edits to the map to show my own plans, borders, and the locations of the Wonders.

LINK

[Vipervertical]

This will not last. Allow me to savor the moment.