Our Christmas Contest is over and we received hundreds of phrases from our players! After a careful and difficult selection, the game administration voted for the best phrase of them all:
"Astro Empires is the perfect mix of strategy, tactics and politics in a Sci-Fi game lasting forever."
Thank you…Continue Reading »
Sixty seconds to launch.
The Captain's warning repeats in my head as if it was still echoing around inside my helmet. I mute my mic to curse and try to steady my hands and warm my quickly icing blood, knowing just how futile the effort is. It's the same every time, those last few seconds, watching the hangar doors creep open as the surrounding shields flicker and finally clear the path into empty space. This is when the carrier is most exposed and vulnerable, when a single well-placed shot could take out the entire wing, all of us strapped in and securely clamped to the deck rails. In these last few seconds, there are so many things that could go wrong, with the final result always the same. I die in my seat, with no way to stop it. That's what gives me the shakes.…Continue Reading »
Hi guys and gals,
It’s the session to be jolly, merry and blast those noobs ;-) Calls are echoing out from the forums this year for a Christmas armistice harking back to the days of WW1. Not unexpectedly these calls are falling on death ears, when best to launch an attack than on the day of days? It’s Christmas time guys, and although it’s not snowing (at least here in the UK or Portugal) we’re well in the festive spirit.…Continue Reading »
One issue that happens with some frequently is a quitting player downgrades all defenses to give easy pillage to others players, usually to friends.(Note: this action violates the game rules).
To discourage this process a time delay between defenses downgrade will be implemented.
After a player downgrade a defense in a base, he can only downgrade other defense on the same base after a certain time.…Continue Reading »
The familiar humming sound of a space vessel's reactor core was barely audible inside the large, round, darkened room, at the center of which a large holographic image of a familiar planet was slowly revolving, standing nearly 5 meters tall. On its orange tainted surface, signs of a heavily industrialized planet, several red crosshairs marked the locations of, clear at this scale, large cities and military installations. Some of those markers were aimed at space, most likely at defense installations as well. All of those markers had a small link on them, with incoherent symbols, probably in the language of the people that made the hologram. The sound of slow moving, metal-on-marble sounding footsteps echoed throughout the room, giving the impression that the room was, indeed, incredibly large.…Continue Reading »