Nile Online

[Sjofn]

Tilted Mill seems to have decided to make a browser based game, Nile Online. As I am a giant Tilted Mill fangirl, and a huge fan of CotN in particular, I signed up for their beta. It's pretty fun (I think).

http://www.playnileonline.com/

Fordel keeps calling his little worker bees slaves. :(

[LK]

Looks awesome but do I have to worry about midnight raids against my empire?

[schild]

Ah shit. Another one. Please don't make it something I have to pay attention to all the time. WRITE MOAR, SFOJN.

The current expected wait time is BRILLIANT.

[Sjofn]

Looks awesome but do I have to worry about midnight raids against my empire?

Not sure! The military stuff isn't in yet (you can build them but not actually do anything with them), but I think it's only used to capture monuments and such, not actual cities.



You don't HAVE to pay attention to it all the time, I don't think ... buildings and such take real time to build (and ramps up pretty fast, my last market upgrade took like four hours). I basically leave my city's page up in the background and glance at it once in a while. And I'm pretty sure that's more than some people do. :P The main attention-needer is the marketplace, at least in the early stages, because everyone around you is about as new as you are, so sometimes you only have one person selling a good you need or whatever, and you need to SIEZE THE MOMENT. I imagine once the cities around me get more developed, the urge to babysit the marketplace in the off chance someone finally puts up some goddamn perfume will wane.

Ingmar and Fordel are both playing too, perhaps they will pipe up!

[LK]

I am really, really liking how they setup this game.

[schild]

Yea, the GUI is gorgeous. Decided to play it without anyone giving an opinion.

My name is Ahew.

It means pain

[Sjofn]

Mine is Zahra! It means flower! 

[Ingmar]

My name is Ing. It means totally creative.

[schild]

REPORTING YOU FOR NON-EGYPTIAN NAME.

[Nebu]

Another Egyptian game?  God damnit.  I'll be right there.

[Signe]

My name is Odjit.  Hi!

[Fordel]

My name is Seraphia, that's sorta Egyptianish! I rule over the grand city of Mag Mell in the Nome of Bastqed.

My slaves are much better cared for these days, they spent the first 24 hours of their existence trying to eat bricks and mud.  

[schild]

I rule over Bat Country and replaced all the Jews with the brown, black, and irish. Also, some catholics.

am i doin it rite?

[Ingmar]

What's your special resource? I got cedar which seems to be some kind of early game jackpot value wise.

[schild]

I got fucking henna. Eats my ass.

I think. How can I tell. Heh.

[Fordel]

It should show up on the map. I have wonderfully useless Bronze 

[Ingmar]

I got fucking henna. Eats my ass.

I think. How can I tell. Heh.

You'll have a place you can collect it from on your little town.

[Soln]

Solnhotep

will play after work

[schild]

Ah, then yes, Henna. At least it seems to be somewhat useful or will be in a few days.

[Sjofn]

Henna is useful 'cause you can make it into perfume (henna + oil), and to go from three to four for your palace you needs perfume. Henna also goes into cosmetics, which are needed for founding a second city, but I kinda think that won't come up in your area for a while.

I started on kohl, which sucks. ><

My nome is Rasesh and my city is Qena.

[Fordel]

All the upgrade levels go from a hand full of minutes to multiple hours, really quick. I totally see myself losing interest in this in about a week, maybe two.

[Ingmar]

All the upgrade levels go from a hand full of minutes to multiple hours, really quick. I totally see myself losing interest in this in about a week, maybe two.

See, I *told* you it was just like Eve.

[LK]

I'm Lorekeep on Rapeseh. I am enjoying this so far. This is the next generation of browser games, it seems.

[schild]

It's rather brilliant on Tilted Mill's part. The graphics and GUI stuff they do is crap for a real game, but for a browser game it's pretty much perfect. Sure, the GUI could use some rearranging but I didn't have to do a tutorial to figure out early build order.

[Fordel]

All the upgrade levels go from a hand full of minutes to multiple hours, really quick. I totally see myself losing interest in this in about a week, maybe two.

See, I *told* you it was just like Eve.

Please, I played EVE for like, 6 months at least.

[Slyfeind]

Oh freakin snap, it looks like Pharaoh/Cleopatra Online, I am so there. I'll be Slyhotep once I get in, probably tonight.

[LK]

Ahew, I see yew. 

[Mrbloodworth]

Pharaoh Tutngore, City of Seplatur. Just west of Bat Country.





 

EDIT: BTW, the search sucks, i was looking for some of you to see what we may be able to trade.   

[Samwise]

Travian without the catapults?  I'm so there.

[LK]

Pharaoh Tutngore, City of Seplatur. Just west of Bat Country.





 

EDIT: BTW, the search sucks, i was looking for some of you to see what we may be able to trade.   

Ooo, you got Cedar.

You're one block north of us.

[Sjofn]

Oh freakin snap, it looks like Pharaoh/Cleopatra Online, I am so there. I'll be Slyhotep once I get in, probably tonight.

I believe Tilted Mill has quite a few people who did Pharoah and Cleopatra.

[Trippy]

Tilted Mill is Impressions of old.

[Lantyssa]

Lashki in the villa of Djedu.  Or is it Setneshny?  There seem to be several Djedu's around me.  I think my resource is leather?

I see a palmer_eldritch nearby.

[Fordel]

Djedu is just the default name for a city, you can rename it via your central palace/fort/castle thing.

[Lantyssa]

Ah.  Found it.  I'm now Lashki of Nathri.

Signe and Soln are on the screen north of me.