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Title: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on June 21, 2011, 01:20:31 AM
How I love you.  It is so disappointing that this type of gaming isn't more popular, it has so much to offer.  And such a wide diverse amount of games to choose from.  I love all types of gaming, but browser based has been a constant for me for the last 15 years.  You'll notice a trend of ladder games that reset and don't have bonuses for donating, its kind of my weakness.  I'd like to hear about some of your favorites.

Archmage
Popular Recreation: The Reincarnation

Classic.  If you don't know original Archmage you missed out on an amazing game.  15,000 players a reset, 2-3 month games, top ten players get in the hall of fame.  Its basically magic the gathering as a browser game, the 5 colors your a mage researching spells summoning armies attacking players for land and summoning more :)

Archspace
Popular Recreation: Magellan Wars, though that ended recently and Archverse is supposed to be back in creation, again.

Also done by Maritel except this is a space game with a bunch of races where you take planets, build them up, research tech, completely customize tech on your ships, and attack other players for their planets all to build up enough to take out the empire, whoever does so wins.  About 8-10k players a reset.

War of Empires

A very interesting game I came onto last year.  Another ladder based war game with guilds and turns, multiple races, research, guild research, and lots of fighting.

Kings of Chaos

Honestly used to be better, but they started using the same engine as Gate Wars(aka Stargate Wars) and they have this weird click system for a higher population which is very lame.  A couple of races, ladder war system, research, and guilds.

Gate Wars

Interesting game, though I don't like ladder games that don't reset they just don't make sense.  I do like the idea though its a ladder game where the top 0.2% or something of the ladder get ascension points and when they have enough they can reset their account back to the beggining and work their way back up the ladder except with a 5% bonus to all stats which is interesting.  They have a couple of different servers with different reworkings of the game play.

Kingdoms of Carnage

Great little game that unfortunatly never made it big but pretty cool.  Different classes, research, guilds, magic items, ladder system, literally.  A lot of games are ladder matches and in this one there are like seven levels you have to fight through against the monsters and the players and the ranking is based first by level your in and then based on how well you are doing in that level so a ladder within a ladder basically.  But fighting against the monsters to take land and fighting against players with multiple ladders during the time when it was popular so just epic.

1000 AD

Haven't played in forever but remember it being cool.

Mythos
Norron

Similar games by the same group so they get lumped.  Cool games with research, cities, armies, gods, races, and of course fighting.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Fleugs on June 21, 2011, 09:18:02 AM
Travian

No explanation needed for that one, I hope. Went hardcore on it once, had tons of fun... but if you want to play it in a high tier (i.e. be something in the end game), you have to play a lot or even play internationally, and you have to be willing to invest some cash into it (20 euro/year).
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Silverhawk on June 21, 2011, 02:10:16 PM
Cantr II

The only other browsergame I play besides BM. It's hard, frustrating and very slow, but also very rewarding. a short discription:

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Cantr II is a persistent browser-based role-playing game (PBBRPG), in which a large number of players play an even larger number of characters who all together form different societies all over our virtual world. Societies exist in different languages, whereby all language groups play in the same virtual world.


And also a fun part is the fact that you are not allowed to talk about stuff that happens in game outside the game for a certain amount of time.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 21, 2011, 02:46:38 PM
The last knights
http://www.lastknights.com/

Basically Risk, only you're one of those pawns invading the enemy lands. There's a turn every half hour to receive gold, and through training in the woods/beach/city/... you level up from Corporal to Staff General, eventually leading your realm to victory across Europe (or die trying). Games last a few months max - whenever one realm has taken over the map.

I haven't played this in years, but back in the day, it was a lot of fun. I quit the day the ranking system got even more time consuming, ads showed up everywhere and subscriptions were needed to have a decent chance at becoming top PvP'er or most experienced commander.

For people who like the strategic part of BM this might be a good game. You join a realm, go training, crush the enemy and fly your colours over as much territory as possible. At the same time you gain experience and glory, scaling the ranks.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Fleugs on June 21, 2011, 03:42:38 PM
Last Knights is awesome. I played it for one map (I think), and I liked it so much. Very time-consuming though. Heck, if you ever want to play it again: maybe we can team up?

Which reminds me. Supremacy1914 is also a nice game for people that like some WWI-fighting. It's also loosely based on risk, with a large variety of playable nations. However, I just checked the site and it seems the layout completely changed recently... should be fun though
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 21, 2011, 04:02:17 PM
Last Knights is awesome. I played it for one map (I think), and I liked it so much. Very time-consuming though. Heck, if you ever want to play it again: maybe we can team up?

Which reminds me. Supremacy1914 is also a nice game for people that like some WWI-fighting. It's also loosely based on risk, with a large variety of playable nations. However, I just checked the site and it seems the layout completely changed recently... should be fun though

I don't really have the time now to be on every half hour :) and I don't think TLK will have changed for the good since the time I left it. The whole For King and Country thing sucked, imho.


EDIT: I just looked it up, and just looking at Iceland (a former country I played in years ago) dominate the map made me drool :)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Foundation on June 22, 2011, 04:33:20 PM
I played Kings of Chaos a long time ago, when it had 100k+ users. :P

It's just a pretense of complication now filled with only the most hardcore set of players from back then.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Bael on June 23, 2011, 05:41:41 PM
I played Kings of Chaos a long time ago, when it had 100k+ users. :P

It's just a pretense of complication now filled with only the most hardcore set of players from back then.

Yep, I suspect a lot of people played it. And don't argue with me or I'll SABB YOU  >:( ::)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 23, 2011, 05:43:04 PM
I did too! :D can't remember a thing about it though, just the name.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: songqu88@gmail.com on June 24, 2011, 02:42:21 PM
Kingdom of Loathing, Twilight Heroes. From what I understand they were involved with each other during TH's development.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 24, 2011, 03:50:50 PM
Update: Last Knights is about to start a new age (109 I believe), so everything gets reset for a new round. Anyone interested to join in?
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Fleugs on June 24, 2011, 05:56:26 PM
Meh, summer is here... maybe I pitch in after that. :)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 25, 2011, 12:19:52 AM
Meh, summer is here... maybe I pitch in after that. :)

Good point :P I don't really have any time after this week until september .. yay september exams.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: songqu88@gmail.com on June 25, 2011, 12:21:25 AM
And for those in the southern hemisphere, they're holed up for winter. Or vacationing in the northern hemisphere.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on June 25, 2011, 02:40:18 AM
I'm gonna check it out for sure, but there is a lot of depth to the game with a lot of guides and stuff to read so I might wait until tomorrow night so I have time to read up on it.

EDIT:  No one has mentioned playing Archmage?  So very disappointing, if anyone wants to check that out sometime I'd be game :)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 25, 2011, 09:59:59 AM
http://www.maidmarian.com/tank.htm

Stays fun :)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on June 25, 2011, 02:48:48 PM
The Last Knights is pretty cool so far. It is too bad it requires so much time to play, I mean you could play once or twice a day but you would never be good.  And whats the point of playing a game when you'll be in last place the whole time.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 25, 2011, 04:00:09 PM
The Last Knights is pretty cool so far. It is too bad it requires so much time to play, I mean you could play once or twice a day but you would never be good.  And whats the point of playing a game when you'll be in last place the whole time.

Yeah. They should have a light-weight version with only 2 turns a day or something. It wasn't like that in the beginning (I played in ages 7-20), but now there's real clans out there with rosters who's gonna be up overnight, lead SF's, ... In the beginning I could actually make it up to General level and be a sub-top player leading the main army every now and then.

If you want to make it to the top today, you need:

* paid membership
* be on for the full 24 hours when the age starts

And that's the bare minimum. I guess I shouldn't have presented it here :/
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on June 25, 2011, 04:40:05 PM
No you should have presented the game here its good.  I agree with the having no life to win statement though not so much about the paying bit, it has its advantages but they don't help active players that much.  Hero tournaments don't have any effect except bragging rights for your hero beating another players.

Knight account (� 6.00 per 3 months)
Your commander has 50 HP more.
You gain 1 healing turn when you are idle (didn't participate in any battle) for 12 turns. This means that if you miss a training run, you can once heal your all your soldiers in the hospital to catch up. You can't save up more than 1 turn.
You can join countries untill they have 108% of the average instead of 105%.
Let your heroes participate in the hero tournaments.

Duke account (� 12.00 per 3 months)
Your commander has 100 HP more.
You gain 1 healing turn when you are idle (didn't participate in any battle) for 12 turns. This means that if you miss a training run, you can once heal your all your soldiers in the hospital to catch up. You can save up to 2 turns.
You can join countries untill they have 108% of the average instead of 105%.
Let your heroes participate in the hero tournaments.
No banners.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 25, 2011, 05:40:13 PM
The healing turn is quite advantageous. Especially if you use the peasant fast-levelling strategy
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on June 25, 2011, 06:36:58 PM
Thats only if you haven't been in a battle for 12 hours and if your trying to level it would seem a waste to sit around for 12 hours.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 25, 2011, 07:35:09 PM
Thats only if you haven't been in a battle for 12 hours and if your trying to level it would seem a waste to sit around for 12 hours.

Well, yes; any battle. But training doesn't count as battle, does it? If it does, then I agree that it's fairly useless.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on June 25, 2011, 07:42:51 PM
Actually thats a good question.  I was thinking training was a battle since you fight people but it is specifically called training so now I'm not sure.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Shizzle on June 25, 2011, 08:01:29 PM
Actually thats a good question.  I was thinking training was a battle since you fight people but it is specifically called training so now I'm not sure.

Yeah, I'm in doubt now too. Not that I really care ;)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on June 27, 2011, 02:13:11 AM
And for those in the southern hemisphere, they're holed up for winter. Or vacationing in the northern hemisphere.

It generally doesn't get cold enough down here to hole up for the winter. I live in Melbourne so almost as far south as you can go. Temperatures get down to 6 degrees Celsius or so, cold but nothing to really cry about.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Revan on June 29, 2011, 02:51:46 PM
Choice of Games (http://www.choiceofgames.com)

Offers a selection of multiple choice games, so nice good little roleplaying experiences. Best one is probably the Choice of the Dragon game where you are dragon and choose how to spend your life, building your horde and fighting off enemies etc.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Perth on June 30, 2011, 07:52:16 PM
Choice of Games (http://www.choiceofgames.com)

Offers a selection of multiple choice games, so nice good little roleplaying experiences. Best one is probably the Choice of the Dragon game where you are dragon and choose how to spend your life, building your horde and fighting off enemies etc.

I have Choice of the Dragon on my iPhone!
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on June 30, 2011, 11:55:06 PM
Cool set of games.  I played the vampire one, but whenever I try and play the dragon one after a little while it freezes and I can't continue.  It happens on different pages each time.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Bluelake on July 02, 2011, 01:06:54 AM
Choice of Games (http://www.choiceofgames.com)

Offers a selection of multiple choice games, so nice good little roleplaying experiences. Best one is probably the Choice of the Dragon game where you are dragon and choose how to spend your life, building your horde and fighting off enemies etc.

Thanks for these, Revan! Really made my day. :)

Lovin' it!
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on July 05, 2011, 09:01:51 PM
This isn't what I was talking about when I started this thread but I do like a good mini game now and again and I found this game and thought it was really interesting.  If you like a well done mini game, puzzles, and time travel this is for you.  Seriously cool game check it out.

http://www.miniclip.com/games/chronotron/en/
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Revan on July 06, 2011, 12:14:58 AM
Hehe, glad to see Choice of Games was appreciated! Have to say actually, that after a replay of all of them, I probs wouldn't put Choice of the Dragon as my favourite any more >.< I really can't wait until they throw up all the Part 2's to the other games up there.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Bluelake on July 07, 2011, 03:32:09 AM
Hehe, glad to see Choice of Games was appreciated! Have to say actually, that after a replay of all of them, I probs wouldn't put Choice of the Dragon as my favourite any more >.< I really can't wait until they throw up all the Part 2's to the other games up there.

Indeed! I loved the politics involved in the romance game (looking forward to part 2), and I haven't gone too far on the vampire one yet. So which one *is* your favorite?
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Revan on July 10, 2011, 03:33:15 PM
Indeed! I loved the politics involved in the romance game (looking forward to part 2), and I haven't gone too far on the vampire one yet. So which one *is* your favorite?

Hah, me too. I loved clambering that political beanpole. But the vampire game I've played a few times now and the sheer breadth of things you can do is breathtaking. There appear to be several quite drastically different storylines you can follow and enjoy depending on your choices whereas the other games have a more linear storyline and progression that don't change all too much with each playthrough. As such, I think the vampire game has to take the cake!
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on July 11, 2011, 12:21:45 AM
Started playing Dave's Galaxy recently, I quite enjoy it http://www.davesgalaxy.com/
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Perth on July 11, 2011, 08:48:37 AM
Started playing Dave's Galaxy recently, I quite enjoy it http://www.davesgalaxy.com/

This looks interesting. Is it free?


Also, I like the way they summarize the game. It's pretty much what peaked my interest. Is BM's homepage summary this attractive/concise sounding to prospective new players? Cause it should be.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Kai on July 11, 2011, 10:59:59 AM
This looks interesting. Is it free?


Also, I like the way they summarize the game. It's pretty much what peaked my interest. Is BM's homepage summary this attractive/concise sounding to prospective new players? Cause it should be.
It sounds the same as every other browser space game.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Revan on July 11, 2011, 11:29:41 AM
It sounds the same as every other browser space game.

Aye. After a cursory glance I'm reminded of BlackNova Traders, which was going strong way back in 2001. Think the software was open source or something so every man and his dog could and did host wildly different versions/flavours of it across the internet.

That's not to say Dave's Galaxy will be a bad game like. Just not sure I'd have the stamina for that sort of game these days >.<
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on July 11, 2011, 12:40:52 PM
Yes it is free. Works on turns, 1 turn per day. I literally spend 5 minutes on it right now to control my 6 planets, I'm sure as I claim more planets it will start to take me more time, or when I get into a war. It is based on a philosophy common in German Board games, so the game is simple yet lends itself to deep emergent game play.

Blacknova traders is a derivative of Trade Wars an old BBS game. Pretty different to this game, which is probably closer to something like O-game, but with less pressure to be constantly online to guard your systems and without the constant upgrading of facilities.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Perth on July 11, 2011, 09:15:14 PM
It sounds the same as every other browser space game.

Perhaps, but I just thought it was a well-written game description.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on July 18, 2011, 01:31:40 AM
So far I am loving Dave Galaxy. The only problem is the lack of communication with players near me, but then that is a problem for most games, one of the best features of BM is that belonging to a realm actually gives you people to interact with.l

A game for all those strategy players out there almansur.net . Has some premium account thing that you pay for, but I am happily playing for free right now. City management, armies and 1 turn a day.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Adriddae on July 18, 2011, 07:25:52 PM
Just started playing Dave's galaxy as well. Looks cool. Right now there isn't much to do other than send colony ships. I'm quite new to this though, and I might be missing a lot of things to do.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on July 19, 2011, 01:03:49 AM
Just started playing Dave's galaxy as well. Looks cool. Right now there isn't much to do other than send colony ships. I'm quite new to this though, and I might be missing a lot of things to do.

There are some upgrades for your planet, but to be honest I get confused about how much they help or hinder you. The game is changing rapidly apparently so a lot of it seems to be suck it up and find out. Right now I send out colony ships every turn. The new colonies seem to take a while to start getting useful, so I just make more and more of them. I have some automatic trader ships, which well just do their thing. Recently started making some piracy fleets to bug my larger neighbours, and a small combat fleet to try and take over some of my smaller neighbours. No combat yet but still having fun and spending less then 5 minutes a day :)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Silverfire on July 19, 2011, 04:41:26 AM
I'm gonna try out Dave's Galaxy, is there any way to get in contact with y'all there? Or any chance of y'all helping me understand what's going on? We should make an in-game BM clan if they have that sort of thing. Anyway, signing up now, let me know.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on July 19, 2011, 05:24:27 AM
I'm gonna try out Dave's Galaxy, is there any way to get in contact with y'all there? Or any chance of y'all helping me understand what's going on? We should make an in-game BM clan if they have that sort of thing. Anyway, signing up now, let me know.

I've been trying to work that out. Only just realised that the single planet that I declared war against, is an outlying colony of one of the biggest super powers in my area, who is also the number 1 player in the game, so um damn. My next few Colony ships will be heading WAY out of the system to establish a second based, but it will take them weeks to arrive and weeks to get to a stage where they can do anything as well.

So far as I can work out, you can only message players that have planets close to yourself. I suppose if we can work out a way to establish a set of colonies near each other that would work.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Silverfire on July 19, 2011, 05:42:09 AM
Wow, there is so little help information in this game it is insane. I've already read through everything available. Anyway, just made a couple colony ships and sent them to the two closest planets. Not sure what else to do.

Is there any sort of system for figuring out where you are in relation to other ppl? Character name in game: KingDante

P.S. Are there any other games that happen to have groups of BM players in them that I don't know about? That archmage game sounds interesting to say the least. I have some time for games but not 24 hours at a time amount of time. although that specific heavy time based game sounds cool.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Woelfen on July 19, 2011, 07:19:36 AM
I played ArchMage quite a bit, it's absolutely spectacular. Some things have obviously been tweaked since the original code was sold, but it's still a great game. Sadly, I just haven't had the time to play much. Have an account, but no active characters for this reset period.

I haven't even thought of ArchSpace in years, but if that is still around I wouldn't mind starting a BM guild on there.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on July 19, 2011, 01:01:01 PM
Both are just plain awesome games.  The best Archmage game out there is The Reincarnation, very close to the original, gets updated between nearly every set if not every set, and has an acceptable following.  The only Archspace game out there was Magellan Wars though that went down last year with no sign of coming back so HippieHunter's Archverse is back in development by a new group of people so we'll see what happens with that.  If people wanted to mess around in the new Archmage I could probably show up for a bit :)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on July 20, 2011, 01:49:27 AM
Both are just plain awesome games.  The best Archmage game out there is The Reincarnation, very close to the original, gets updated between nearly every set if not every set, and has an acceptable following.  The only Archspace game out there was Magellan Wars though that went down last year with no sign of coming back so HippieHunter's Archverse is back in development by a new group of people so we'll see what happens with that.  If people wanted to mess around in the new Archmage I could probably show up for a bit :)

I used to play Archspace, back when Planetarium was the number 1 web game. I thought it was great back then.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on July 20, 2011, 12:22:56 PM
For anyone playing Dave's Galaxy, look around you for new players that aren't expanding. Good chance they are inactive and ripe for taking over, which should net you a nice high level planet. No idea HOW to take over planets, I'm sending an attack fleet out now to give it a go, but I expect it will take several days to arrive.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Adriddae on July 20, 2011, 05:57:59 PM
Ha I found KingDante.


He is right beside Dave. To the north west to be more specific.

Ok to find me(vistuvis)


First find Dave.(or any of the planets below)

Then move west to find Dave's planet "Embassy 3"

Then move southwest to find Dave's planet "Embassy 1"

Then continue moving southwest to find Dave's planet "Embassy 4"

Then move up to find Vistuvis. My color is orange and my capital's name is Bazidia.

Note the embassy planets seem to be surrounded by a dashed dark yellow-green line so it shouldn't be hard to find them. I also use routes to remember and to chart the map. Like a made a route and called it "route to Dante". Not that it would be much use because he is very far away but its nice to know where he is.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Silverfire on July 20, 2011, 09:20:08 PM
Yes, I thought it was very weird to be placed right next to the designer of the game. I guess it gives me somewhat of a unique neighbor set, because anyone can see me just by clicking "demo". hehe.

Anyway, since Dave's Galaxy seems to have a small following I thought I'd make a new thread just for it, and we can all post in there.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: psymann on July 31, 2011, 06:18:05 PM
The browser-based games I've played in recent times have been:


War of Empires *****: this remains, alongside Battlemaster, my favourite online game.  Like BM, it is a bit of a one-man creation since it started some years ago, and that one man (Tom in BM, Bhaal in WoE) is frequently around to discuss things and explain things.  It has a smaller playerbase than BM, so also has a everyone-knows-everyone community.

It has no roleplay at all, but the strategy and tactical options are fairly good, and one of the most impressive things is that you can do your battles and attacking when you're online - no "Your troops will arrive in 7 hours" stuff - which makes it immediate and more fun.

If you're the sort of player who likes the battles in battlemaster, but not the messages, and you find you have lots of extra time to play more games, you might like it.


Cantr II ****: played this for a fair while, and it's the most similar game to BM I've found.  It's a similarly slow pace to battlemaster, is centred around roleplaying (more so than BM, really), and involves roleplaying normal people rather than nobles in a similarly kind of mock-medieval era.  It's a bit slow to get going with, and the roleplay is all first-person stuff (ie you're talking to people in front of you, like a sort of roleplaying chatroom), so nothing like the third-person Roleplays we have in BM, or long narrative stuff, or even letters.


Tribal Wars **: Gah, that was a horrible game.  The sort of game you can only do well in if you play all day and also in your sleep, and if you are willing and able to drop everything to make sure you send your troops at between 0 and 400 milliseconds after 14:05:34 in the afternoon (I'm not even exaggerating).  Fabulous game if you live on your computer; horrible game if you are a human being.  It seems involved at first, and then you realise it gets exponentially worse the longer you play.


Runescape ***: I guess that counts as a browser-based game since it's in a browser, but it's more like World of Warcraft, with massive playerbase and fancy graphics, and nothing like the others above which are more text-based and played mainly by adults.  Runescape is dull as ditchwater most of the time, but has the one single benefit that you can pick it up and drop it again without any loss to your character.  Going away for two weeks doesn't need you to pause anything, miss out on anything, lose anything etc.  And in most cases you can drop it and log-out at a moment's notice with no bad consequences.  It's also dull enough and repetitive enough that you can play it with only 10% of your brain turned on which is handy if you only needed 50% of your brain on that particular phonecall and wanted something else easy to stop you falling asleep.

It's one of the few I've found where you can very much fit it around your life, rather than having to fit your life around it, yet on the occasions you do have six hours in a row to fill, it can keep you completely occupied for the duration.


All the above are free and friendly and run on donations and love, with the exception of Runescape which is free to get about 15% of the game, but costs about USD$5 a month for the full game and is run by a faceless profit-making organisation.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on August 01, 2011, 01:58:45 AM
I put War of Empires up here too.  Do you still play?
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: psymann on August 01, 2011, 02:41:11 AM
I played v1 to v8, joining soon after it first started, was fairly successful there and a forum mod, but then left (and came to Battlemaster about that time).
Came back for one age in v12 with some other friends, but then didn't play again after.

Then came back last age (v24) as a request from Rage, mid-round, and am now playing v25 at the request of The Dagger, as part of SAF, trying my utmost, mainly with some fairly handy level 21 spies, to stop SALT from getting the empire victory.  Feel free to message me in-game if you like and are still playing also, where this age I'm "psyahbandah" in keeping with the Singaporean theme (syahbandar being a word for a harbour master).  And in the forum, I'm still psymann, same as here.  :D
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on August 03, 2011, 12:18:43 AM
Well if anyone is interested in checking out either War of Empires or The Reincarnation(New Archmage), I'd play a round with you.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: De-Legro on August 03, 2011, 12:47:28 AM
Well if anyone is interested in checking out either War of Empires or The Reincarnation(New Archmage), I'd play a round with you.

What sort of time requirements do they have? I'm not able to log in more then once a day at the moment.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on August 03, 2011, 01:19:41 AM
Well if anyone is interested in checking out either War of Empires or The Reincarnation(New Archmage), I'd play a round with you.
What sort of time requirements do they have? I'm not able to log in more then once a day at the moment.

You could do either of them at once a day.  War of Empires makes you produce resources automatically every 20 minutes? so if you wait too long you'll get attacked for them, but you can only attack people based on how many attack turns you've built up so once a day is fine if you don't jack up your income and just get your income from when you do your attacks.  Archmage only has you producing resouces when you spend turns and you attack from that same pool of turns, you can build up to about 300 turns in your pool before you start losing them and depending on the game speed you can get turns anywhere from 1 every 5 minutes to 1 every 15 I believe.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Kai on August 03, 2011, 06:01:41 AM
War of Empires seems like any other ladder-style game.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: psymann on August 03, 2011, 12:03:04 PM
War of Empires is much like other ladder games, but in my experience of trying a lot of them, it's the best one.  The lack of having to wait for anything to happen (you click to attack, and the attack happens instantly, you click to build, and you build instantly) makes it much more pleasing to play and easier to slot around what else you're doing.  There are a few different ways you can choose to play, the players are a good bunch and new players have a chance to do well.

That said, I really do disagree that you can play by logging in once a day.  Whereas ticks happen every 12hrs in Battlemaster, they are every 10mins in WoE.

- To play individually, and not be very involved in the game, you'd probably need to log in twice a day.
- To play in an empire, which you'd likely want to do, you'd probably need to log in three or four times a day to make sure your account wasn't harmed (ie first thing in the morning, last thing at night, and a couple of times during the day - every day)
- To rank high, you'd need to log in every few hours every day.
- The best and highest-ranking players log in every hour and even pop in to log in in the middle of the night.  There's certainly no need to do that, and you can get full enjoyment from the game, and be part of the winning empire, without doing so.

I'd say to get a reasonable game out of it, you should be able to log in for 30mins in the morning, 30mins before bed, 10mins at lunchtime, 10mins at tea time and preferebly a couple of extra hours here and there during the week.  Most of the top players will be players who can leave it open on their computer while doing other things (eg work!) and just prod it for a few seconds every hour.  It is certainly not as lightweight as Battlemaster which is one of the great things about Battlemaster.  Nor is it as heavyweight as something like Tribal Wars.


If you do want to check it out, Age 25 is drawing to a close over the next week, then there'll be a week or so of downtime before the next age starts, and the Age 26 will begin with everyone starting from scratch again for a level playing field.  Feel free to contact me at 'psymann' on the forum if you want to know more.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on August 03, 2011, 01:14:21 PM
Most games on the internet are ladderbased ranking systems, people want to know how good there doing in the grand scheme of things.  Not to mention in most games it also gives you a range of people you are allowed to attack and ones you aren't.

Logging in more often for pretty much any ladderbased game means a better position in the game.  However, that being said you can adjust things to make logging in less often not a complete loss.  For War of Empires there is a race, troll?, that gets lots of negatives for its turn production of resources but a large bonus to attack.  So you can easily keep your resource production low so people don't attack you every hour for the mass of resources you've built up and you can attack at night with your attack turns and since you're online you can immediatly spend it all.  You won't do as well as the guy literally losing sleep to check his game, but you can still check out the game, get a good feel for it, and do alright without feeling like your getting pounded for inactivity.  Or at least that was the strategy I used when I checked out the game and I placed alright.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: psymann on August 03, 2011, 03:20:08 PM
Regardless of the race bonus, you can choose to make-lots-of-stuff and invest in production, or steal-lots-of-stuff and invest in troops.  Usually a mix is best.

There are a couple of things you can choose to 'research' to help players who are more offline, such as autobanking a percentage of what you make, and hiding a percentage from attackers, and rebuying some of your troops for you.  Other ladder-based games have very similar options as well, I believe.  You can certainly have a good time in the game only logging in two or three times a day.  To do well you'd probably need a little more than that.  But unless you're losing a one-sided war and you have chosen to give people the chance to destroy you, then you'd never need to be unduly worried about losing anything noticeable if you're away for around 10 hours at a time.  I'd want to be relatively sure I could log in once every 8 hours though, really.

You still playing it, squishy?
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on August 03, 2011, 11:31:06 PM
I haven't played in a couple ages.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: psymann on August 17, 2011, 04:32:11 PM
Well, if you want to try another age of War of Empires, the next one is due to start on 20 August.
I'll be called 'psyboarg' in-game there in the SETT empire if anyone plays it and wants to say hello.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Morningstar on August 18, 2011, 03:08:40 AM
Figured I'd throw this out there- I actually found out about Battlemaster all those years ago from friends playing Dominion (http://www.kamikazegames.com/dominion/index.htm).  Can't speak to the game in the last 8 years or so, but back then it was one of the best ladder style games available.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: squishymaster on September 14, 2011, 02:38:12 AM
My favorite type of game is province based war games and thus I'm always on the hunt for these types of games so if you know of any new-ish ones you should post them.  My last big hit was Medieval Total War 1, I say this because all the other ones make your troops walk from region to region using region points instead of just one region to any region next door takes one turn. It makes things a lot smoother to just make them one turn away without having to find an enemy army in the region, if your in the region your there and fight.  Robin Hood Defender of the Crown was really good as well. Others?
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Vessol on September 29, 2011, 07:26:38 PM
I remember having a lot of fun with eRepublik. It was similar to BM, but in a more contemporary setting.

It's too bad they massively updated it. At first I thought the update was great, but then I realized how much all the new complexity made the game take even longer to play daily and the new war system was way too time intensive of 1-2 hours a day. Whereas before I could run a company, be a congressman, and fight in a war every day within 5 minutes. Haven't touched the game since.

Another game I recall playing a long time ago is Renaissance Kingdoms. Very similar to BM, but more on a personal scale rather than macro. Thousands of players take the roles of peasants and craftspeople in individual kingdoms. Think I might try it out again sometime.

http://www.renaissancekingdoms.com/
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Chenier on September 29, 2011, 10:30:20 PM
I know of a neat browser-based game coming out soon, it's in beta right now.

It's called... Battefield 3!  ;D
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Bluelake on January 10, 2013, 04:15:52 PM
Reanissance Kingdoms was great, but I don't know why, people mixed too much their characters with real life. Real grudges would show up. Also, everything happened in forums, and people would go back months or years to edit an old post and say they did something they didn't...

I was part of the people that created Portugal when it first opened, and my mother was the first Queen. It was great for some time, until all the bickering and politics and real-life hatred began to show up. Not to mention lots of abuse with little to no reply from the dev team.

I'd go back there, if I had the time, but BM is still much better. And playing a family (not just a character that turns out to be really close to yourself), all the difference between IC and OOC, really improves the atmosphere for most people. What I did love about RK which BM still lacks was the tavern :) A chatroom in the region you were in. You could buy people drinks (and get drunk, which messed up your chat lines and was awesomely funny - you would also be unable to do actions for hours or even a couple of days, depending on how many drinks people bought you), you could eat and fool around in a very friendly way.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: James on January 10, 2013, 08:37:07 PM
...Thread returns from the dead...

There was a game I used to play that was all about humans and zombies. Very simple but very fun. Can't remember what it was called though... Hide in the Supermarkets and hope the dead players don't break in and kill you whilst your asleep...
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Indirik on January 10, 2013, 08:53:25 PM
Urban Dead?
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: James on January 10, 2013, 09:13:41 PM
That's the one! Hmmm, I can remember my character name, but may take a while for the password (didn't take email addresses when I signed up...)
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Ulfang on August 01, 2013, 02:42:36 AM
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it but Renaissance Kingdoms was a very good game (I don't play it at the moment). Set in different countries (depending where you're from) its a medieval online RPG/Strategy and is quite unique. You begin in a town and have to make cash by mining, woodcutting, farming and rely on other players to help you on your way. You can travel between towns and regions (although many of the roads are dangerous with bandits) and can become a mayor, priest, army leader, king or queen. The strategy is done via the game mechanics and the RP via the forums.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Disturbedyang on February 27, 2014, 06:38:40 PM
I was looking for Archmage and thought it had disappeared. Thanks to this thread that i found out it was renamed as The Reincarnation. Haha. I was in Hall of Fame Top 2 once, long long long long time ago. Lolz. Has to be the best and hardest to master game i have seen. Every tactics can be countered. You just have to find a way.
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: bofeng on August 04, 2014, 08:12:36 AM
I am digging the old posts to seek some good browser games. And this Renaissance Kingdoms is just awesome!

But I can guess the player base is declining there too. It's shame that the map is not filled at all.

But it's still awesome!
Title: Re: Browser Based Gaming
Post by: Rizky on November 27, 2018, 02:51:34 PM
http://rensim.org/