Comments on: Will Facebook bring back PBM games?

By: tnovelli

tnovelli — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:23:20 +0000

Cool. I never realized EC was so popular. Some of my friends are nuts about it. I’m starting work on a clone or take-off. It’ll be web-based of course, using HTML5 Canvas for the map.

We’re also seeking players for a bona fide game of EC starting this week… see tnovelli.net/conquest if interested.

By: ron

ron — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:17:10 +0000

Loved EC. I certainly wish there were a version available true to the original or at this point I would settle for a clone.

By: johncorea

johncorea — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:43:53 +0000

Hello fellow esterian conquest fans I miss the game as well. Back in the day i wrote a graphical interface for the game. EC COMMANDER. It made the game even more fun…

Then a few years ago I started working on a version for windows. I didnt lay out extensive plans how it would work but i just had fun laying out the screens. A couple screenshots below

The esterian universe screen

http://home.comcast.net/~swl/ecwin.jpg

The build menu

http://home.comcast.net/~swl/ecbuild.jpg

Anyway…. to do it right is alot of work and I just wasnt willing to put in all that time and then discover not that much interest. I may get back to it someday. I wish someone else would though. i sure enjoyed that game. The stories I could tell! some people took it very serious! The intrique!

One thing that detered me was not having the original game rules. I was working off the top of my head as to how the game worked

By: WMMorgan

WMMorgan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:21:27 +0000

One of the grestest things about EstCon was that it was almost pure galactic fleet strategy. You didn’t bother with trading or mining or domestic economic policy, which I think is a lot of make-work that fouled up other similar games. The most ‘domestic’ things you had to do was set a single empire-wide tax rate, and decide what you wanted to build on each planet out of its annual production points: armies, groundbases, orbiting starbases, or 6 different kinds of ships.

By: Effonelson

Effonelson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:22:29 +0000

Geez I might have the Esterian Conquest discs as well. Have to break out the 5.25″ floppy too. I wouldn’t know what to do with it then though… sounds like there is a market out there for it though!

By: WMMorgan

WMMorgan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:04:45 +0000

Esterian Conquest had such a simple format, and was certainly based on simple algorithms and formulas. How hard can it be to just code a new EstCon from scratch?

By: JMoore

JMoore — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:43:55 +0000

I ran Esterian Conquest for years on my BBS. It was very popular…seems most folks migrated to VGA Planets as programs developed. If I remember right, the developer of Esterian Conquest lost his source code when lightning destroyed his computer..and much other stuff at his home. That was long ago when I tried to get some changes made to it, so haven’t heard anything since he dropped off the radar. I may still have the bbs installation discs (3.5) around.
Would be nice to have that game available.

By: John Hansen

John Hansen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:57:53 +0000

Hello. We ran the registered Esterian Conquest on our computer bbs’s for years and LOVED IT. Our members did too – although occasionally they got hot at each other and us. Is there any space strategy game out there now that works on websites? I had solar wars but it wasn’t very good or didn’t seem to be. MajorHart@sbcglobal.net

By: WMMorgan

WMMorgan — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:30:27 +0000

“Esterian Conquest”???… did someone say “Esterian Conquest”?… count me in, if it ever flies again.

By: mich

mich — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:22:15 +0000

I do benefit from this new platform. I so like many applications available in facebook now. I get to enjoy my free time playing my favorite Realm of Empires. It’s just so sad to know that some applications or games are not licensed. How could this happen?