OVERVIEW

Empire is a world exploration and conquest game which is played over a period of time by several people. The computer maintains all of the information about the players (nations) and the world. Nations must learn where the islands are and what they look like by exploration. Additional land is obtained by spreading on the nation's home island and by sailing to other islands. Unowned land can be occupied, owned land must be taken by force.

Movement, industrial growth and conquest are limited by the amount of time units a nation has. Time units are displayed as a part of the main prompt. There are two types of land time, movement time and update time (or time on the left, time on the right). These two values are displayed as 99/255 in the prompt where 99 is movement, and 255 is update. Your time for an island is stored in your capitol. This means if your capitol is lost, you lose all of your time (disaster). Protect your capitol at all costs and if lost, designate another capitol at once.

Additional time units accumulate with the passing of real time. Time units are consumed by movement and industrial updates.


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