Hi folks, my name is Mark.

 

Anywho.. I am a Java programmer by trade and by hobby. So much so, that a few years ago I built a strategic galactic conquest game called Empire vs Republic. It went on for a couple of years and had nearly 100 participants from around the globe battling for control of the galaxy. It was a fun game, but had limitations.

 

Five years later, I have finally finished the core programming on the next generation of that game. I call it Galactic Simulation, or GalSim for short. Basically, you can read up about it at http://markb50k.dyndns.org:12345/gal_sim , where I give a little history and some of the features provided. I also give pics and stats for all the ships you can play in the game. All ships are in a top-down 2D view and the models are heavily simplified version of alot of old SWNR and warlords models.

 

In short, if you liked Rebellion (guessing that is a given on this site), or like Empire At War but would love to have dozens of players, this game could be up your alley. Build ships, launch attacks, mine resources to fuel your war machine, whatever you want. And all the while, you could command a fleet of star destroyers, like we all have wanted to do.

 

This game is designed to be content-intensive giving you eventually alot of options on how to make your fortune, plus the ability to see your units down to the individual fighter. Anyway, I hope I have interested you enough. Check out my site (I am NOT a web designer, so it is REALLY REALLY basic) and write me if you want to sign up. Once I get a few people signed up I will start the game turn engine and the war will be on.

 

Thanks in advance for any interest.

Very interesting, I'll definitely try it out.

Cool, I have 6 people signed up so far. Have you already sent me an email?

Mark, if you are good with Java, and you'd like to make an actual Rebellion game, let me know We could use another hand here at the moment.

im pretty good i guess but probably dont have the time to do two project. Heck I dont even know for sure if I have enough time for ONE!

1) Bat files don't work on systems other than Windows, so I had to run the game manually (java -cp blahblah)

2) Clicking the login button with Standalone mode selected throws a null pointer exception and all subsequent login attempts repeat this behaviour, even if the login mode is changed (in other words every other login attempt fails).

Moribundus: if you are still interested, email me at markb50k at gmail dot com and I can help you out. 30 some-odd players have already signed up.

 

Also a little update:

 

we have a nice little forum setup for the game and their is already a nice group of folks playing.

go here for the forum

http://warlords.swrebellion.com/smf/index.php/board,23.0.html

 

here are some screenshots of the action so far

http://galsim.nickersonm.com/screenshots.html

 

Just email me at markb50k at gmail dot com to join