New Game, MMOSG?

Platon2x · August 2008

On friday I got an mail (Yes snail mail!) from an independent gaming company which I have a few shares in (£430 )

They make pen & paper RPGs/systems, card games and tablegames. Which is my hobby and therefor I bought some shares.

They've now "announced" their first computer game, no idea how far they're in the development, but the idea caught my eye. Unofficially this game is an MMOSG (S=Strategy), but being branded under the MMORPG genre. The game seems like a mix between Heroes of Might and Magic, Civilization and Lords of the Realm/Stronghold <-- my statement.

The game have a *sigh* fantasy setting with all the mandatory races/factions, Undead, Orcs, Elfs, Humans etc.. also sub factions such as Wood Elfs and Vikings(yay!!). The game world is huge and will support more than 10 000+ players. You start out as a lonely character with some basic gear and some money which You can hire mercenaries. All characters/henchmen/minions in the game gain skills(?) or levels(?) as they gain experience. The best items in the game is player crafted and again all character/henchmen/minions can be equiped. Combat as I understands it are instanced and turnbased. Two or more provinces can be declared as a kingdom aka guild. A province consists of atleast one city and several hotspots aka mines, farms etc... oh and a interesting feature; Permadeath

The email was sent out to all shareholders as we're offered to obtain additional shares. I've written them back to gain more info, hopefully I'll have an answer by tomorrow. I'm not interested in the additional shares, but the game looks interesting. I'll post more info as I get it or read into it, got a small book with features. The mail is stamped confidential hench I've written the vague features and have no url or name for You, if I get green light I'll post that aswell.