But also— a new (real round) is starting in a week or two. 47 day rounds play much differently than sprints and realms are typically much more active and available to teach.

Hopefully you’re willing to give it another shot!

Those are both fair assessments, to be honest. It’s kind of a running joke in the community that the primary communication (in the main discord server) is gifs. If, for no other reason, than because a lot of game-specific content can be very sensitive, as it’s against game policy to post about info ...

Honestly, human is pretty straightforward. Or maybe Merfolk!

Back in the original version of the game 20+ years ago, there was inter-realm fighting. People stealing from their realmmates, attacking each other, etc.

But it got removed a long, long time ago, because of potential for abusing the system/cheating.

You do not compete against others in your same realm. A realm is essentially a team and you cannot take negative actions against them, whereas you can attack, steal from, assassinate, fireball, etc people in other realms. The individual goal is to get as large and strong as possible, but there is a ...

Join us! Now is the perfect time since we’re between rounds

So that’s a different Dominion. This Dominion is a browser tick-based war game. Was online from 2000-2012 and at its peak had about 10,000 active players per round (per game).

Some of the best players work in a support-type role and have great finishes (based on their size at the end of the round). Other people play kind of like… Austria? And go wild early game. It really has lots of different potential strategies for different personalities/preferences.

It really is! Especially in conjunction with something like diplomacy! Check out the website and the discord server is super super helpful and friendly. That’s where a lot of conversations happen.

I’ll post a quick summary/basic description of the game from its homepage: OpenDominion is a free online text-based strategy game in a medieval fantasy setting. You control a nation called a 'dominion', along with its resources, buildings, land and units. You are placed in a realm with other dominio...

Hey everyone! Sorry if it’s not allowed, but this seems like the perfect place to recruit for math-strategy type games. Back like 20 years ago there was a browser-text based war game called Dominion that was on a kamikazegames.com, which lasted for like 10-15 years, before being shut down in 2012. S...