SRE was my absolute favorite game back in the 90s when I ran my own BBS and played on many others. On a whim, for a little more than a week, I've been working on a humble project to duplicate the original game - matching the old menus, layouts, and core functionality from the ground up.
To improve on the original balance, I added several mechanics to organically limit the ability of the largest empires to dominate the server forever, keeping the sectors competitive for everyone.
On the technical side, I've actually figured out how we could run central games that multiple independent BBSes could connect to simultaneously. The catch is that I don't have any BBS software set up on my end right now to try those ideas.
Working well under telnet. Web started but currently empty. In game chat.
I still have some major parts to work out like Treaties and Covert Ops/Insurgencies. But it's come along A LOT faster than I expected.
I don't know if it has a future. At the very least I've had fun pretending I was playing SRE again. :)
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