Netrek

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Netrek	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Game
🗃️ Genre:	Strategy	🚦 Status:	04. Released (status)
🏷️ Category:	Strategy ➤ Space Exploration & Warfare ➤ Escape Velocity, Star Control, Frontier Elite	🌍️ Browser version:
🔖 Tags:		📦️ Package Name:	netrek-client-cow
🐣️ Approx. start:		📦️ Arch package:
🐓️ Latest:	2011-06-23	📦️ RPM package:
📍️ Version:	3.3.0	📦️ Deb package:
🏛️ License type:	🕊️ Libre	📦️ Flatpak package:
🏛️ License:	GPL-2 & multi (BSD-like)	📦️ AppImage package:
🏝️ Perspective:	Third person	📦️ Snap package:
👁️ Visual:	2D	⚙️ Generic binary:
⏱️ Pacing:	Turn-Based	📄️ Source:
👫️ Played:	Multi	📱️ PDA support:
🎖️ This record:		🕳️ Not used:
🎀️ Game design:		👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis
🎰️ ID:	12062	🐛️ Created:	2010-08-20
🐜️ Updated:	2022-05-06

📖️ Summary

[en]:	A multi-player battle simulation with a Star Trek theme. As a player, you captain starships to engage enemy vessels, bomb armies and invade planets in order to expand your team's space empire. The ultimate goal is to genocide the enemy race, but the carnage of battles along the way is ruthlessly fast paced and a lot of fun!	[fr]:	Un jeu multijoueur en ligne sur le thème de Star Trek dont le but est de capturer les planètes adverses

📕 Description [en]

Netrek is a multi-player battle simulation with a Star Trek theme. As a player, you captain starships to engage enemy vessels, bomb armies and invade planets in order to expand your team's space empire. The ultimate goal is to genocide the enemy race, but the carnage of battles along the way is ruthlessly fast paced and a lot of fun!

It's a team-oriented game with realtime dogfighting but involving a lot of ongoing strategy.
It costs no money to play, there are no ads, and it's open source.

Why play Netrek?

Primative graphics? Yeah, it isn't filled with eye candy. Neither is Chess or Go; real games don't have to be about the pretty pictures, it's about the game.

Netrek has action and strategy, and they've been honed to a careful balance over a longer development period than any other multiplayer computer game, period. Like chess, bowling, or baseball, you can play netrek for practically your entire life. Even if you are the best dogfighter, there'll be someone who's better at taking planets, or flying a starbase, or scout bombing.

Netrek is probably the first video game which can accurately be described as a "sport." It has more in common with basketball than with arcade games or Quake.

Its vast and expanding array of tactics and strategies allows for many different play styles; the best players are the ones who think fastest, not necessarily the ones who twitch most effectively. It can be enjoyed as a twitch game, since the dogfighting system is extremely robust, but the things that really set Netrek apart from other video games are the team and strategic aspects. Team play is dynamic and varied, with roles constantly changing as the game state changes.

Netrek is no-cost, open source software. Unlike some corporate MMPORPG, it won't disappear in a few years; it'll be around for as long as there are people who want to play it. You don't need a hot machine to play it, and you can play on Windows, a Mac, or Linux (and lots of other unixes too, if you want). You can put a server on one of those paperback-sized home firewall machines to take to a LAN party.

If you're a programmer and you want to change how the game works, you can do it and get people to try it out. You'll be hacking on the oldest Internet game protocol that's still in use (the third one ever written).

🍥️ Debian :
client for netrek online game

This is a client for the multi-player game of Netrek.

Netrek is probably the first video game which can accurately be described as a "sport". It has more in common with basketball than with arcade games or Quake. Its vast and expanding array of tactics and strategies allows for many different play styles; the best players are the ones who think fastest, not necessarily the ones who twitch most effectively. It can be enjoyed as a twitch game, since the dogfighting system is extremely robust, but the things that really set Netrek apart from other video games are the team and strategic aspects. Team play is dynamic and varied, with roles constantly changing as the game state changes. Strategic play is explored in organized league games; after 6+ years of league play, strategies are still being invented and refined.

The game was created in 1988, and still has players, including some people who have been playing for nearly as long as the game has existed.

📕 Description [fr]

Un jeu multijoueur en ligne sur le thème de Star Trek dont le but est de capturer les planètes adverses, par la Netrek Team.

Un jeu multijoueur (16 joueurs max. répartis en 2 équipes) en ligne sur le thème de Star Trek dont le but est de capturer les planètes adverses.
Plusieurs clients sont disponibles.
C'est un projet dérivé du jeu Conquest-gl.

🚧️ Installation [fr]