Barren Realms Elite - any players? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-10 11:48 Does anyone here play Barren Realms Elite? If so, where? I'll join your game, even if it's small. I am playing on Battlenet, on Blackfair's, on doorparty and bbslink. Surely there's more in the entire world? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KookyWait · 2023-04-10 12:38 Haven't played in nearly 25 years, but it was one of my top two favorite door games back in the day (the other was TW2002). I'd be especially curious to know if there are any interplanetary games happening these days ---------------------------------------------------------------------- analog_potatoes · 2023-04-10 12:54 There is a BRE league (interBBS). One place you can check it out is the Agency BBS. The sysop also runs the master node for the league. Have fun. agency.bbs.nz:23 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- YserviusPalacost · 2023-04-10 14:40 Same here. I loved BRE and used to run it on my own BBS back in the day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m00dawg · 2023-04-10 17:27 I played BRE and also the (now very hard to find?) SRE though my fav was Falcon's Eye. They're all great however! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2023-04-10 22:31 The Diamond Mine Online has all those Solar Realms games. BRE, SRE, FE, FH, etc. [bbs.dmine.net](https://bbs.dmine.net) on port 24 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aguyfromhere · 2023-04-11 00:24 Same! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aplos9 · 2023-04-11 01:11 Know of any active FE Inter bbs? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- analog_potatoes · 2023-04-11 01:25 Check the Agency. If anyone runs it Avon will. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JayG7800 · 2023-04-11 01:46 I was playing on door party and bbslink last year and both games suffered from a single user creating multiple accounts. Hopefully it’s gotten better. If it has, I will certainly return. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KookyWait · 2023-04-11 02:39 FYI I convinced our sysop to restart our game because a user had done the same (and foiled by attempt at playing double agent - I had promised support for the populations of two planets), making accounts on multiple boards, circa 1997. So, that's not a new problem ---------------------------------------------------------------------- manager_dave · 2023-04-11 02:42 Same here too! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-11 10:35 Thank you! FYI port 24555 is the binkd port, and standard port 23 has telnet. BRE and so on aren't running on the board right now, but the league is still going. My mission now is to run through the nodelist one by one and find which one is active and running the game! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-11 10:40 Yeah, I never encountered the multiple account problem because our phone calls cost 25c each, so doing that would double your phone bill! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-11 10:40 Doorparty BRE has just been reset in the last month and is active. The BBSlink game seems to have been running since 2019 and some players are huge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-11 10:51 If you're keen, Doorparty has SRE as well as BRE and FE. There's only one player in FE, two in SRE, but ten in BRE. Diamond Mine ([linked below](https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/12h ge24/comment/jfr74y0/)) carries them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-11 10:58 Battlenet leagues 000 and 069 have a healthy number of players! You can play at Shenk's Express ([shenks.synchro.net](https://shenks.synchro.net) port 24) or Blackfair's Manor ([blackf.synchro.net](https://blackf.synchro.net)) (++ u/YserviusPalacost. u/aguyfromhere, u/manager_dave from the replies) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- analog_potatoes · 2023-04-11 12:57 Oh whoops. Yeah I just copied the address from the FSX node list. Didn’t even think about that. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- berkough · 2023-04-11 19:18 Used to be one of my favorites back in the day. Had a friend who hosted his own Synchronet instance just so we could play BRE, LORD and a couple others. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m00dawg · 2023-04-11 20:15 Oh that's excellent! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution-Radiant · 2023-04-12 06:39 http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE- Documentation.html You can download it there, and Amit Patel (the author of SRE) even has a registration crack on there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m00dawg · 2023-04-12 15:03 whoa I learned so much from that one page haha. The Y2K bug is interesting! I thought it was also written in Turbo Pascal and not C++. TIL! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mercunium · 2023-04-16 22:49 Is it time for a reset on BBSlink? Happy to do it if would make it more playable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-17 10:16 Maybe! I'll send out a message to all and see what they think. I don't think any would disagree, and if nothing else it'll give them some warning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-18 09:36 I got three yesses, so that is good enough for me! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-04-19 08:34 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-04-19 08:35 Okay, the troops are asking if we could please have the bank interest and investment rates set higher. It means new players can catch up easier. With current settings (variable rates, currently 1.8% investment rate), it would take 3-4 months for a player to max their investments and join the fight properly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- shurato99 · 2023-04-21 23:06 League10 has a pretty active game, but it's mostly people from Blackfair's Manor. Same with League 618 (Micronet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mercunium · 2023-04-28 01:15 Consider it done! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantis29a · 2023-05-04 21:41 I'm playing in pretty much all of those leagues, and am curious which of you I am playing with lol! I imagine some of you will know who I am just from my username. :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantis29a · 2023-05-04 21:48 I'd like to request, for next reset, that there be more land available each day in the local games (like BBSLink). I'm able to login right when the game flips to a new day, and am able to buy up all the land (if LoD didn't beat me in ;) lol! But in a local game in particular, it feels wrong to me to beat the holy hells out of people that never got a chance to buy \*any\* land. Doesn't take much skill to win in a situation like that one, so I haven't really been continuing with the turns on that one. I'd love to get back in to it for the next reset if we could change that particular aspect! If we're going to play local, let's at least help level the playing field for everyone, methinks. And just to save on multiple posts, I am playing pretty much every game on Blackfair's, and working towards putting something together with a few other individuals from the community to help grow the game a bit. Working on a BRE discord which will have all the info and leagues together in one place; hoping we can get together and coordinate a bit prior to resets, and spread the playerbase around a bit to several BBSes to try and make the various leagues viable. (Most are empty, or all the players are on between 1 - 3 boards). BRE local is a lot of fun. BRE inter-BBS is a complete \*blast!\* I hope we can help players find some great boards to play on, and have some great inter-BBS wars! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-05-04 22:51 I know you! - imperial overlord / starship junkyard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantis29a · 2023-05-05 13:00 You certainly do! We are both allies and former combatants lol \- Aargons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sentimentmixer · 2023-05-05 13:49 I made allies on league 000, then accidentally sent my group attack to them instead of to the enemy. Am not a military mastermind. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantis29a · 2023-05-05 13:54 Hahahaha, nice! (Merkimer voice:) "Let this be a warning to your *other* allies!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- redblobgames · 2023-08-24 15:09 SRE was in C++. Mehul preferred Turbo Pascal, so I reimplemented the game engine (modem communication, menus, networking, input system, player messages, etc.) in Turbo Pascal for him to use when he wrote BRE and later games. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kijour · 2023-09-20 01:51 BRE! Man, that brings back some amazing memories