<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">What: Netrek Empire Game<div class="">When: Thursday July 30th @ 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern (Today!)</div><div class="">Where: <a href="http://netrek.networkmom.net" class="">netrek.networkmom.net</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Backup server in case of instability: <a href="http://pickled.netrek.org" class="">pickled.netrek.org</a> (Bronco)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Netrek Empire mode:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Uses standard Bronco clients</div><div class="">All 4 teams active</div><div class="">Sufficient robots for minimum of 28 players (robots logoff as humans join)</div><div class="">When you join, you are randomly assigned a “home planet”</div><div class=""><div class="">You spawn on whatever team controls the planet</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">If you want to refit ships, you need to do it at your individually assigned home planet.</div></div></div></div><div class="">When one empire controls 75% of the planets, they win.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As an empire gains planets, it gets more ships/players. But it might be possible for the 3 other empires to stop a large empire from becoming dominant.</div><div class="">Due to the random assignment of players to planets, there is no guarantee that teams will start out even.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Windows issue:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Had a user running a Windows client last night who suffered client crashes every ~10 minutes. I’d love to hear whether other Windows users also suffer that problem. A stacktrace identifying the type of netrek packet which triggers the crash would be very helpful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>