...or the browser game derived from it. As chance would have it, my alliance of a few friends wound up right next to the MIT BBS alliance, a Chinese-language chat board hosted by MIT students. This sort of bodes poorly for us, so any extra hands on deck would be muchly appreciated! This link is a referral to the game's signup page, if you use it it will start you off in close proximity to me and my allies, as well as give you a referral bonus of extra gold and materials to start off with. People actually wanting to join the alliance, just PM me your character name so I can get an invite sent.
This is a very very sloooow paced real time strategy, in the same vein as old BBS empire building games, so people should be expecting to spend half an hour-ish per day for several days. It's very much a 'wander by in a free moment, tinker with your kingdom, go do other stuff for a few hours' sort of game. You send your hero off to fight and he takes a couple hours to go have the combat and come home, so this is more for people who enjoy a slow methodical empire game than Starcraft players!
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