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Just checking, is this the Empire game you mention?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire

Or maybe this online mud? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(online_game)

There are a few in Wikipeda, so there are probably more as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(disambiguation)#Video_...

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My dad played a lot of Classic Empire back in the day. I gravitated more towards a similar game that I think was called Conquest, where the turns auto-advanced (felt like an RTS) and infantry could cross bodies of water themselves by turning into boats. Wish I could find that one again, I've never found it on any of the 'old games' lists.

There was a game called Conquest, which was a fantasy game similar to Empire. I recall that you could play various races, Orcs being one of them, Wizards another. It was very detailed, with each square of the map's terrain having ratings for how useful it was. I remember that there was a note in the source or license that the game was free but not allowed to be run on 'PCs'. (I interpreted this to mean MSDOS machines, and was able to get it running under Coherent). This would have been in the early 90s.

The game I played was definitely not a fantasy game, it had modern-type units like armor and airplanes. Neither was the Classic Empire game that my dad played, with aircraft carriers and battleships and the like.

Hmm, not sure what game you'd mean, then.

I was only able to find this man page for the game I was thinking of:

http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/athena/contrib/games/man/man6/con...

I should point out that the rascal responsible for that cause of bleary eyes in many a grad student is among us and even gloating about it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686686

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