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It is a turn
based, science-fictionstrategy game. :"Dark Galaxy is a game
of planet management, ship battles and the struggle for control of
resources (planets) in the universe.
Planets must be developed with resource generating structures
and ship and weapons factorys to produce fleets.
Better resource producing structures and ships can be
researched by training scientists on your worlds."
:"Dark Galaxy
is turn based with each turn lasting an hour, every hour the DG
server updates everyones score and resource totals and also
calculates the results of any battle that are taking place.
It is not necessary to login every hour to perform actions as
the game moves relatively slowly in that games can last many months
and building ships and constructions can take anything from 6 - 72
hours."
Each "ruler" starts out with one planet.
By building various structures the ruler can increase mineral
output, population and ability to build more useful
structures.
The ruler will eventually begin to colonise other planets.
Soon after this happens rulers will start building war ships
and trainging soldiers.
Then the wars start.
Any ruler hoping to do well in the game
will become a member of An Alliance. famous alliances inculde
"Running with Scissors", "Dark Empire", "BlackRider Commando" and
"Psychoactive Planet".
Each alliance would usually have (approximitly) fifty
members.
These members all work together to help each other out.
In wars they would attack the same people, usually an opposing
alliance.
They may attack as a whole unit (like nuP or GalGen) or they
may attack several targets in small groups (RWS).
A usual round
usually lasts about three months, or 3000 ticks.