Whatever Happened to Netrek?

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:Ogg the BASE!

[mstorer3772]

As I recall, Ogging was a kamakazi attack designed to cause your ship to explode as close as possible to your opponent, causeing as much damage as possible.

And mass ogging was pretty much the only way to take out a starbase. Those things were TOUGH.

I read the annecdotal origin of the term online somewhere, many moons ago.

That game rocked.