Welcome Back to Text Base Gaming
I've decided to start playing SteemNova, what have I done!!
The other day, I stumbled on a post that somehow led me to @steemnova. @steemnova is a blog for information about a text-based space game called SteemNova, which is hosted at http://steemnova.intinte.org. The only real connection to Steem, at the moment, is the blogs and the name. They hope to have some deeper connections in the future, but right now anyone can sign up and play.
Maybe in the future, they can create a SMT that goes along with the game to reward people on the leader board.
Currently, they are doing rewards this way, which requires players to upvote the article.
SteemNova - 2018-02-11 Weekly alliance shares and player rewards by steemnova
Anyway, back in the days before "WWW", games were played on Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). You would dial-up your modem to one of these BBS and use text commands to get around and do things like play games, download dot matrix photos of women and basically chat about things. Yes, I'm ancient.
Well, in the 1990s, before things got really pretty on PCs there was a game called Trade Wars. In Trade Wars, you would go around from planet to planet and get resources to build up your fleet to keep from being blown up by computers and human players. It was the first Massive Multiplayer Game (MMPG) for the space trading genre. Because it was free to copy when it first came out there were tons of places to play.
SteemNova is very similar to that game. In SteemNova, you build up your planet in order to build space ships, to build up other planets so that you can create a fleet that can attack other players. And it is all text-based. There are a few images to make everything look nice, but it is still all text based.
Now, I know that I have played Trade Wars and I have also played the game that SteemNova is based off of called OGame. OGame was created in 1999, but I am either feeling really old or I swear it came out before then. It is hosted by GameForge and has much prettier graphics than SteemNova.
OGame is a strategy game set in space, with thousands of players from across the world competing at the same time. You only need a regular web browser to play.
If SteemNova/OGame has a familiar feel to you and you know you haven't played it previously, then it is because it is like those click and wait mobile phone games. The ones where you do some action and then wait for something to happen. Wait for your power to build back up. Wait to collect enough of something in order to buy something or build something. This is the same thing. Or, I guess, those mobile games copied from OGame.
Since it is simple and browser based, you can play SteemNova on almost any JavaScript enabled browser. Which makes it nice and portable.
While there is a simple playing FAQ on the game, @cloudspyder has also created a
Beginner Guide for Steemnova. The most important thing for any Beginner to know is BUILD A SOLAR PLANT FIRST! If you don't, you just have to delete your account and start all over again, because you won't be able to do anything else.
As I mentioned at the top, they have a weekly rewards payout. Two days ago, they list that there are 207 players currently on SteemNova.
There must be a few dead accounts right now. I only joined yesterday and apparently I have moved up 100 positions over night and I don't even have a spaceship yet.
I don't even have a shipyard yet
Which means, if you want to join in, there is plenty of room at the bottom!!
Let the positive energy sing!
More Power to the Minnows!!
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Right now there is about 35% inactive players.
It is false, that without building solar planet first you have to delete your account. Still you receive base resource, so if yo are hardcore player you can even play without this building.
Hope you will like playing steemnova, I will be waiting for you.
Well, I couldn't build anything after I was using up all the Energy and you need Energy for the mining, so how would you progress?
So, you are saying that there are 134 active players and I jumped ahead of about 30 of them so far.
754 (82.31%) <-- win rate
Yup...that was an ominous statement.
Looking forward to checking this out now. Seems like a game i will enjoy so far, but as the build time takes longer I tend to loose interest in these games. Maybe a friendly competition with others will keep me going.
Well, you can just do it and then go do something else. That's what I am doing. Just keep it on another tab.
Can we team up?
Yup.
When you build your fleet, then it will be more interesting. There are some people that are playing this game when normal people are sleeping ;) just to surprise this normal people when for example they leaved their fleet unguarded on the planet.
Interesting, I'll have to check it out. Been awhile since I played a text based trading game. A bit long in the tooth myself.
Let me know if you end up playing.
Did reg an account and started playing. Know little about how but using beginner guide and building. Using same name as here. Is yours the same? Be looking for you on the leader boards.
Yes, mine in the same. I'll send you a buddy request.
Thanks for the run down. I used to play Ogame years ago, joined an alliance and used to do stuff on a fairly high level, it was awesome. Of course I was doing very little in those days, you need to have time to play these games.
The comparison with the so-called "idle" game genre, the time based clickers, that's very true. However doesn't it feel quite different? I think this is because in Ogame they allowed some things to always take more time.
I've been testing a lot of games recently and one thing I noticed is that in the idle clickers they always give you ways to reduce the time of long tasks as you go on so they keep you in this hovering sweet spot where you're just invested enough to say and watch a timer (!!! it's like paint drying) but not enough that you think okay this is taking too long. All those game designers are coming from gambling, psychology and economics backgrounds so it's not surprising. But it does border on unethical for me.
Anyway, I don't think I'll be playing SteemNova until they do have a greater integration with Steem, I think they really need to for it to be "a thing".
I'm thinking, until they can get the rewards truly integrated with Steem, it won't take off.
Right now, it looks like 2 Alliances control the universe, so they'll have to reset the universe if it does take off.
I agree that the casino mentality of most games is a bit unethical. Short-term pleasure is the world of today. That will make it harder for longer games. I wonder if today's kids could handled Dungeons and Dragons done the old way.
Right now, it is going to take me 7 hours to mine enough resources to build my next item. I've been playing for 4 days and haven't even built a space ship yet. Not exactly the quick payoff always exciting type of game.