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".