Community Event 1: Neptune's Pride

A couple of months ago I recklessly started a Steam Community for the site. It’s probably about time I tried to set up a few games.

Problem: Of the current members there don’t seem to be many games in common that wouldn’t require many more people than we have.

Solution: Pick a free browser based game that everyone can access.

So I’m planning to set up a game of Neptune’s Pride, a free browser based multiplayer strategy game. The benefit of this particular game, besides the cost, is that it seems to have had most of the complexity of 4X strategy games stripped away in favour of diplomacy (and backstabbing) between players. And if you’re thinking “I don’t really play many strategy games so I’ll probably just be shit,” yeah, me too.

As for time investment: It’s a long form game taking place over weeks/months but because events occur so slowly you’re probably only going to need to drop in once a day for a few minutes to queue up moves and research. Although I am guessing here based on what I’ve read of it.

For a basic overview you can see the site’s introduction page here. For a more detailed look at what you’d be getting yourself involved in by signing up Rock, Paper, Shotgun did a game diary of a playthrough between them and PC Gamer here.

If you’re interested just put your name down in the comments thread of this post. Assuming enough people sign-up we’ll probably get started in a week or so.