alt Hacker NewsThis style of play is really underrated.
I used to play a half-dozen or so games of Diplomacy at time with daily turns for years.
There are still modern games that take advantage of this idea (my friends have been playing Old World like this recently) but I'd like to see it more.
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verelo • yesterday at 8:27 PM
Yeah! I cannot for the life of me remember the game but I used to play this space nation builder type game around 2004-2007...i was so invested. Then i found out the game resets every ~year. Wow that was a sad morning when i woke up to find out I came 50,000th or something haha.
Used to play a multi-player Lords of Midnight (the Spectrum/C64 game) where each player (up to 8) made their moves in turn. The original used a day/night turn-based system, so using that for 2-8 humans made sense.
It actually improved on the original by introducing new maps, which probably helped players unfamiliar with the original game who could probably draw the map from memory.
Games could often stall where a real-life didn't allow a player time to make their moves.