Starport: Galactic Empires
Developer(s)PlayTechTonics
Publisher(s)PlayTechTonics
Designer(s)Aaron Hunter
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
  • WW: February 3, 2004
Genre(s)MMORPG Space Simulation
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Starport: Galactic Empires is a free, space-oriented, massively multiplayer online role-playing game by American studio Playtechtonics which uses a third-person overhead view similar to that used in Asteroids. The game uses realistic 2-dimensional physics for both space and atmospheric travel, affecting both the movement of ships and player-fired weaponry. Characters can conquer and colonize planets of different types with uniquely-generated terrains. The player can harvest resources, generate money, and produce weapons with their colony. Starport shares many core concepts with Tradewars 2002, notably the trading of goods between orbital space ports in different star systems.

Pricing

Starport is notable in the MMORPG genre as being one of the earliest adopters of the free to play business model. Instead of charging players a monthly subscription fee, Starport is free to play and allows players to purchase extra resources in the game through a feature called "The Admiral's Club."[1]

Gameplay

Players are given a spaceship to travel through galaxies to either trade, pvp (player versus player) real-time combat, or create colonies for income. Players are also able to take over other people's colonies by breaching defenses and capturing the biodome, wherever it has been placed on the planet surface terrain map. Commodities play a large role in the universal economy, with different means of obtaining them either through trade, colonies or pvp.

References

  1. ↑ "Starport: Galactic Empires : Game Information About Starport: Galactic Empires for PC at MMORPG.COM". MMORPG.COM. 2004-03-31.
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