Whatever Happened to Netrek?

Posted by Cliff on Monday March 31, 2003 @10:30AM from the disappearance-of-a-popular-'net-pastime dept.

FWMiller asks: "Yea, about 5 years I was skilled at a wonderful network game called Netrek. This game was really a sport, requiring not only arcade skills but strategic thinking and extremely well developed team play. Today I was thinking of trying to play again and to my dismay, the entire sport, which used to encompass hundreds of simultaneous players and games has all but disappeared! Does anyone out there have any idea if we witnessed the extinction of one of my favorite graduate school pastimes?" It seems that the home site of Netrek is alive and well, but the metaserver, which showed current active games, is not. Is anyone still playing? Will the Metaserver be replaced or is there some current or future alternative?

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Re:Xtank by PD · 2003-03-31 10:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

I think anyone playing a tank game on Linux will probably be playing bzflag. Try it, it's quite a bit of fun.

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Finally! by Violet+Null · 2003-03-31 10:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

An Ask Slashdot that isn't...

1) ...something that you should ask a lawyer and not 10,000 IANALs.
2) ...something that could be answered by Google in seconds.
3) ...an obvious attempt at getting free market research.
4) ...just plain stupid.

Unfortunately, I know absolutely nada about Netrek, but, hey, I just wanted to express a positive opinion about an Ask Slashdot. For once.