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From: kerchmar.randy@epa.gov (Randy Kerchmar)
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Subject: Re: Searching a turn-based space stragegy game
Date: 30 Sep 2004 11:47:55 -0700
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Maros Kollar <mar.i-don't-want-spam.os@k-1.com> wrote in message news:<415a70c1$0$10840$3b214f66@usenet.univie.ac.at>...
> Hi,
>
> a couple of years ago (around 1999) i came across a turn based space
> strategy game similar to galatic civilizations. Now i'm trying to find
> the game again but unfortuneately i can't remember the name anymore. I
> just can remember some of the features. I have searched google and
> several directories but i simply can't find a game which resembles the
> game i'm looking for.
>
> - Turn based space strategy game
> - You can colonize planets in different solar systems
> - Several alien races
> - You can build structures on the planets surface (and in the orbit ?)
> - You can construct your own ships by placing different gadgets and
> weapons on free positions (nuber of the availavle positions depends on
> the hull size of the ship)
> - Solar systems are connected by interstellar lanes (you can't travel
> aside these lanes)
> - You can invent new technologies
> - nice (3d?) graphics
>
> does anybody know this game?
>
> regards
This sounds like Acendancy. It is a DOS based game.
You might like Master of Orion II. It is DOS and Win 95, does not do
well on XP. Available for $5 at EB within the last few months in North
Carolina.
Madkaugh
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