Does anyone remember a play by mail game called StarWeb? I'm pretty
sure the mods won't, they're too young. But do any of you older guys
or girls? EV is a sorta like it. When you signed up and a game began, you
were given a star system and chose your race or destiny. Your system
had 3 or 4 connections to other systems and you had to decide where to
go. You started out with a limited number of ships and had to hope there
was no other race waiting for you. You decided your moves and mailed
them in to the central office. They entered all the moves by all the
players into a Raytheon computer (remember those?). You recieved a
printout about once a month and each mailing cost a dollar.

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Never played it, but it sounds fun. Was this back in the 1970s?

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leviathan@sourcecod

seems to be QUITE an old game for all the elaboration. It may have even been the basis for EV, Matt Burch is the only person who knows that though. But sorry, Ive no clue of it.

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intersting....any linkage?

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linkage? It sounds like this game was from before the wheel!

The game sounds like EV only very tedious. And expensive - a dollar a mailing would really add up.

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*before the wheel* the martial artist mumbles something about sprouts and salads

It was expensive. In the mid to late 70's, gas was running about 75 cents a gallon
and we whined about it. Computers like this raytheon were considered small and they
took up a 20' by 20' room. They needed constant temp controls, like between 65 and 75
degrees farenheit. The game was kinda cool tho, you didn't know what you would run
into until you got the next printout. If you were a pirate you captured any other
character if you had a 3 to 1 superiority. Beserkers were based on the sci-fi stories
by Fred Saberhagen, and you were obligated to attack any carbon based life form.

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Oh, I'm being followed by a moonshadow. Moonshadow,
moonshadow!
- Cat Stevens -