Welcome to Stropptopia
Posted by Stropp on April 7, 2008
I was over reading Ogrebear’s blog which I discovered over the weekend, he has quite a bit on Everquest 2, but that’s not what caught my eye. Ogrebear did a review of Ikariam, a Civilization style web browser based game. (I think someone pointed this out to me previously.)
With the news a few weeks ago that Sid Meier was actively considering developing a Civilization MMO, I found myself wondering how such a game could work. It looks like the developers at Gameforge have worked it out.
After I signed up and created an account, I found myself looking at a rather timid little town. No structures other than the town hall. No defenses to prevent other players from overrunning the land and carrying off the women. It needed a bit of sprucing up.
The first order of business was to give it a good solid name. A name that would come to symbolize power and majesty. It could only be called Stropptopia.
The game works in real time. You can see in the picture that I am currently building an academy. In fact it should be finished by the time I’ve done writing this. So far I’ve created a baracks and a trading post. The next on the agenda will either be the city walls or upgrading the city level.
I’m playing it by ear at the moment. There are some reasonably active forums with a lot of info, but I haven’t really had a good look at these yet. (BTW, shameless plug - don’t forget the new Stropp’s World forums, they need your love too.) I’ll have a better look at them later.
The game is essentially free, but with some paid content. You can buy ambrosia and get some premium content time bonuses.
And the best part of all. Since it is browser based, you’ll be able to play at work. Not that I encourage that sort of thing. No. Not at all.
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Well i was bored last night and decided to give this a wee go, I sent you a small message im The Lostprophet - town name Arkham Asylum. It is quite interesting, I’ll be playing it every so often while i surf the net.
Ah ha! So that was you!
I saw it today, but I’m yet to reply. Ikariam is an interesting little diversion isn’t it?
yeah it is quite and interesting game altho somewhat frustrating when you start off, the only building one thing at a time is quite annoying. Im yet to check if the smart filter at work will catch it…. i will try sum up my bravery and await a wrap on the knuckles.
I can see why they do that though. If you could add lots of buildings and upgrade everything all at once, the game would be over much faster, and would probably get boring very quickly.
Lol. Don’t get into trouble though.
haha aye it is blocked
yeah i can see why it is only one at a time, im just impatient and dont want my town to get raided. It is addictive in the way that im wondering what to build/upgrade when i get in this evening…. i admit i already popped home at lunch to build a wall.
I just like it because its a simple little game you can play at leisure and between surfing/other games.
oh i forgot to say as well have you ever tried to play wow on a private server? I got an invite sent to me last week via email
Never tried WoW on a private server, though I did with Ultima Online once. It wasn’t all that great an experience though, there was hardly anyone on there and the server was a bit flakey.
I think that’s the key to this game. No pressure to advance faster than you need to. Just take it easy. And you don’t lose everything if you are raided, just some resources.
few weeks ago I started playing Ikariam, a web browser based MMO in the style of the Civilization games. I figured it was about time I gave …
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