Hi again, Ach. I hit the send command a bit early, so please pardon the incomplete message. As I was about to say, the most confusing part of the game is probably the sheer variety of options available. The map comes in at a close second, but I'll try my best to explain below. The map's made up of sectors, which you can conquer and designate to be anything from manufacturing plants to research centers. The coordinate system is a variant on cartesian, with your capital at (0,0). The confusing part is that it isn't a typical grid. Instead, the designers opted to use hexes, a choice which a lot of sighted people find more realistic but which is a bit weird for us. You can go up left, up right, left and right, and down left and down right but not straight up and down. It does take some getting used to. Once you've understood that, the next issues to worry about are a bit more practical. The game can be found at www.wolfpackempire.com, and requires a specialized client to play. You could use Telnet, like a mud, but it's not recommended. I use Linux myself, and find the "basic empire client" very useable. Your milage may vary under Windows, but it shouldn't be impossible. The interface is rather mud-like, with commands being entered at a prompt and responses scrolling up the screen. THe one big difference is that a mud tends to send things in realtime as they happen. Empire tends to leave you alone while you type, updating only when you send your command. There are tiny exceptions, like a notification of new messages arriving, but that's about it. The game I play in is what's known in Empire circles as a blitz. Blitzes are unique in that they run continuously, resetting every so often. They don't require the more elaborate registration processes other longer term games do. Typically, each blitz publishes a list of country numbers, say from 1 to 10. To play, you log in with one of those numbers and change your password, which is initially the same as the number. I'm afraid this game is complicated enough that I can't really give a decent synopsis here. There's a ton of information to cover, and it's somewhat hard to know where to start. So, if you're interested, look at the website, and reply here. I'll do my best to help people over the considerable humps. Best and enjoy, Zack.
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