Utopia is (IMHO) the best text online strategy game.
In this game, you control a province together with other people whose control provinces within a kingdom and strive together against other kingdoms.
This game is based on real time in which a full utopian day is an hour in real time and a full utopian month is a day in real time.
As a ruler of a province, you will have buildings and armies to manage.
There are many races that u can choose. Each races have their own positive and negative bonus.
Buildings that can be built, like barracks, farms, stable horses, jails, etc. Each buildings have unique ability.
Armies divide into 4 types :
- Soldiers as a very basic army of yours (have an offense and defense of 1)
- Offensive Specialist is like its name, an offensive armies(have no defense ability, but have offense of 5)
- Defensive Specialist is like its name, a defensive armies (have no attack ability, but have defense of 5)
- Elites, are unique for each races, but usually an elites have attack and defense abilities, though the value is different for each races. Usually elites are the best to have, but they are very expensive and hard to get compare to other types.
Actions like training soldiers, building barracks, attacking enemies require times for it to be ready and available to be used again.
For example, buildings usually can be fully built in 22 utopian days (22 hours in real time), attacking other provinces on a kingdom which is on the same island took about 10 utopian days (10 hours) for your army to come back after attacking that means you are open for attacks from other provinces in that 10 hours, etc. So, now u should know the basic of the game.
There are lots of strategies to deploy because of so many features and varieties which makes this games interesting even though it's text based. And what makes it even more interesting, each period, it would be reset and there would be some tweaking and changes here and there to make the game non static and always different. So, what I type above like offensive specialist have 5 offense might not be relevant again now. They might have changed to 4 offense or maybe there would be no offensive specialist at all. So, there would be no fixed strategies for this games and makes it even more likeable for players like me that like to test and change strategies here and there.
And after that long explanation, here's the link for this good game : http://games.swirve.com/utopia
