I have recently been reintroduced to the game genre of browser text based online rpgs in the form of the game Star Pirates, courtesy of the guy who makes the web comic Good Ship Chronicles which I usually read from time to time, although I can’t say it is my favourite web comic.
Anyway, Star Pirates is a free spaceship based rpg, in which you start off captaining a scavenger ship at the Mars space station, as the Earth has been destroyed, leaving you and others like you being forced to survive out in space. You can upgrade your ship and level up your crew through combat and doing scavenger missions, you can also attack and raid other player’s ships for whatever they have in their cargo bay, an aspect of the game I have not partook in as of yet. You can also join or create a fleet with other players, essentially a clan or guild. I have not joined any fleet yet and don’t really think I should be starting my own. Starcorp, the fleet of the webcomic which I discovered the game from, would probably be a good choice, but probably once I have gotten used to it more.
So far Star Pirates has been pretty good, you don’t really need to pay much attention to it, you can just leave it open in a tab and check up on it every 5 minutes or so, making the appropriate upgrades and doing some scavenging in order to earn money, then go back to what you were doing before while your fuel and research points fill up again. As I have said, I have not experienced any combat with other players yet, so I can’t really say much on that, but I can’t really imagine it would be much different to other games in the genre which I have played in the past.
So anyway, my referral url is: http://www.starpirates.net/register.php?referer=9608 so I get all sorts of tasty treats if someone from here clicks it and makes an account… or something… Yarrr!
