Update of the old Drug Wars text game

[shmokes]

If you have a Facebook account, you have to check this game out.  If you don't have a Facebook account, it might even be worth signing up for (that and Scrabulous  . . . the online scrabble game).  It's like the old Drug Wars or Dope Wars text-based RPG, where you move around NYC buying and selling various drugs, buying guns to fight off cops, except now it's on steroids (pun intended).  You build up a whole enterprise, investing in your own drug lab, choosing what to grow/manufacture, buying a plane so you can buy directly from Columbia, etc. 

It's also massively multiplayer, so you can start/join a cartell, hire workers, get jobs, lots of other stuff.  It's super addicting.  Here's a link to it.  Note that going to the game through this link gives me money (in-game money, not real money) and credit for new recruits.  Also, started a cartel this morning, so if you play the game and want to join my cartel, let me know.

http://apps.facebook.com/dopecity/hellYeah.php?o=698131373

[ahofle]

Is there a page with more details on the game without requiring you to register?
I used to play Dope Wars with a friend at work (LOL).  Good times.

[shmokes]

No.  Everything on Facebook is that way.  It's obnoxious.  I have about 35 requests from people to add one or another little apps to my Facebook page that I haven't added cos I don't know what it is.  But everything on Facebook is self-contained.  So if you don't like something it's just a matter of clicking a button to remove it.

With that said, if you've ever played the old Drug Wars or Dope Wars games it will be very familiar to you.  And it doesn't do anything seedy, like sending messages to the people on your friends list, unless you manually invite them and tell the app to send them a message.

[CCM]

Can't you just play the game outside of Facebook?

http://www.treadon.us/

http://v1.treadon.us/

http://www.oddthought.com/wiki/index.php?title=DopeWars_Online_Guide

This looks like the game you are talking about.  Are there any differences between this and the Facebook version?

[shmokes]

That looks pretty similar.  However, it seems different inasmuch as hiring workers is just like buying guns.  You aren't hiring real people to work for you.  Also, it doesn't appear to be nearly as large a world.  It's just a single city like the original game, whereas this game has you traversing the world, with different things to do in different cities (aside from different local drug availability and prices).  For example, in Vegas you can gamble or join a fight club (where you fight against real members and take money from them if you win).

I don't know.  The one on Facebook looks better to me, and certainly benefits from a much larger userbase, but they're probably both fairly similar experiences. 

[RayB]

www.pimpslord.com

[ark_ader]

www.pimpslord.com

This thread reminds me of the good old days of 9600 baud modems and BBS sites, where you can play multiplayer games like Barren Realms Elite.  Build your world up and your armies and go to war.  It had a Risk style element to it and was addictive.

Drug Wars was a game we can play while we had time off on lunch.  All the system admins played it, until Doom came on the scene.

[somunny]

I remember playing a lot of Trade Wars around '92-93, or so.  Never heard of Drug Wars though.

[Franco B]

Ah drug wars, that brings back some memories 

I used to have a version on my phone too which was pretty decent, it was a bit more complex than the old version.

Ill have to check those links out, thanks!

As for games that everyone used to play, the only game that was on the IBMs at school was the 'Tanks' style game with the Gorilla's throwing the banannas over the city at each other which you had to set the angle and velocity for.

We then got a load of A500+'s and for ages everyone was playing North and South, happy days

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHcoemBuUZ0[/youtube]

 

[quarterback]

But everything on Facebook is self-contained.  So if you don't like something it's just a matter of clicking a button to remove it.

Yeah, easy to remove everything except your personal info.  I wouldn't touch Facebook with a 10ft pole.


http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3553216.ece

If you to try to delete yourself from Facebook, however, you will find that the default option is actually to “deactivate” your account.

Rather than removing your personal details (and photos) from the system, this option will merely take down your public profile, purportedly so that you can later return to the Facebook fold without having to reupload all your information.

Meanwhile, all your personal details are still stored and potentially accessible. They are certainly out of your hands.

http://www.calacanis.com/2007/11/25/the-wonderful-horrible-life-of-facebook-users-and-their-data-or/

Facebook has done three things that are at once extremely innovative, extremely rude, extremely helpful, and extremely disconcerting:

1. They are collecting and republishing user data on a level not before seen by users.

2. They are allowing advertisers to use this data to reach these users.

3. They are not giving this information--information that has put their value at $15 billion--back to their users.