I used to host LoRD and Usurper on a local Renegade BBS back in the mid 90s
Nice. I remember somebody who ran one of the BBS that my friends and I played on back in the day staying up to watch me play Usurper to figure out how I was beating everybody when they had their rooms guarded. It wasn't anything special, we just found a race/class combo that basically beat everything.
Still a great game that doesn't get boring. Every year or so I'll play it again for a few months in a row.
We need a ripscript version for the web!
But what about Galactic Empire?
Don't forget some BRE and TW2002
InterBBS BRE is still one of my favourite turn based "online" strategy experiences, working together to defeat other BBS's, so good
I've been hoping someone can make a text based modern version of Lord or TradeWars. Having LLMs generate a lot of the gameplay and text dynamically would be one idea.
I wrote some BBS door games back in the day and was thinking of making a new one today, although not multi-player. It would be in the style of the old games (ANSI-style art and text) but for a single-player and with a daily play limitation as well. You'd only play a few minutes each day and if you died, you'd have to come back the next day. Nothing concrete yet, but I definitely would like to make one just for old time's sake.