No love for Exitilus? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheBuzzSaw · 2019-10-21 04:08 This door game is surprisingly difficult to find information on. Searching Google/Reddit turns up ancient or useless results. Was it really that much less popular than games like LORD? Are there any active BBS providers with this game running? I played it many years ago, and I'd like to play it again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sharky6000 · 2019-10-21 04:19 It's funny, I had the same reaction in the 90s when I put it on my BBS. I thought it was so good and only discovered it because I looked around for good door games but never saw it on any that I called. And even on my board it was not popular. It was always such a mystery to me! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheBuzzSaw · 2019-10-21 04:28 LORD really was lightning-in-a-bottle. (For good reason. I love LORD and started playing it again recently.) I don't know if LORD's success _directly_ harmed Exitilus, but I suspect Exitilus made several design decisions that ultimately rubbed players the wrong way. Still, there are things in Exitilus that I wish LORD had. I love playing Exitilus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sharky6000 · 2019-10-21 04:33 I liked LORD but found it to be a bit repetitive. I had a rare/unpopular one that I really liked: Iron Ox. It was like a space colonization/economic sim, I think it was inspired by M.U.L.E. on C64. But man there was only one BBS that had it and nobody played :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- itbytesbob · 2019-10-21 07:06 I got in to exitilus before I ever played lord. Only a couple of the boards I called had it and hardly anyone played it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anras · 2019-10-21 15:12 Wow I would've loved a MULE-like BBS game back in the day. Hell I might like it now, but the perpetual problem with these games these days is actually rounding up enough players to make it fun. :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anras · 2019-10-21 15:19 Never heard of it unfortunately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheBuzzSaw · 2019-10-21 17:13 But (just for context) you know LORD, right? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anras · 2019-10-21 18:03 Yes. I used to be Co-sysop of a Worldgroup BBS who ran the games - we had T-LORD. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nevarro · 2019-10-21 19:28 Exitilus! Fun door game. The BBS I run, the Realm of Serion, has Exitilus. Also, Serion's website does have some documentation for the game located here: [https://serionbbs.com/exitilus- info.php](https://serionbbs.com/exitilus-info.php) You're right, Exitilus isn't very popular compared to LoRD. One main factor could be the many cheats in the game. Though I haven't explored them myself, I understand that some of them are pretty game breaking with how generous they are and make the game unfair for anyone else that doesn't know about the cheats. It is my understanding that the door game Ambroshia: Test of Time was created in an effort to create a game with similar gameplay as Exitilus, but without the game breaking cheats. Ambroshia is also available on the BBS if you're interested in trying it out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anras · 2019-10-23 01:35 The BBS I've been playing LORD on lately, [serionbbs.com](https://serionbbs.com), apparently has Exitilus, too. So I'm giving it a try now! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- syi2k20 · 2019-10-23 05:35 I don't think there is existing source for Exitilus, so it's very hard to run outside of an emulator. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2019-10-23 23:15 I haven't heard of this one before but I did find a copy for install I found it here [http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/smsw- vol6/DOORS/index.html](http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/smsw- vol6/DOORS/index.html) and I will test it out and see if I can get it to work. I have been trying to find old BBS Door games especially ones that were not very well known and I have been playing and recording them and reviewing them up on YouTube since there was very little videos about them other than your standard LORD, Usurper, BRE, TW2002, etc. So I've been cataloging games then reviewing them and having fun doing so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Techrival · 2019-10-26 04:48 Amazing to see people talking about this! I just bought a portable Bluetooth keyboard to play telehack on my iPad pro and that lead to me thinking about old door games and Exitilus was always the high point for my BBS career prior to Doom2 multiplayer. Exitilus > LORD in my humble opinion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Techrival · 2019-10-26 05:04 Dude I'm going to hop in tonight then too! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NuSkooler · 2019-11-09 03:33 Great game, but unfortunately can be buggy (e.g. crash and lose data) :( Much more immersive than LoRD though IMO. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheBuzzSaw · 2019-11-09 03:46 But all the BigInt money! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- p220 · 2020-01-27 05:14 was my fav door game back in the day... wound up here looking for info on it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SinisterPhish · 2020-04-15 08:03 It's a FANTASTIC game! I loved it 25+ years ago. I got nostalgic for it about 20 years ago and found that I was living in the same city as the guy who made the game... his name was Tao Gi or something like that. He was very surprised to know that it had such a following, apparently he wrote the game over the summer, then uploaded it and never thought of it since. I wish I would have offered to take him out and buy him a beer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iromeo256 · 2022-02-09 01:03 Just joined this to play today!!