Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021

Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is an ASCII space strategy game in where you
play (obviously) as the supreme leader of a galactic empire struggling for
global dominance. It contains the common elements of 4X strategy, including
planet management and development, exploration, tech research and war.

The game contains several scenarios (although you can design your own with a
text editor) that present the general background of the game (number of
players, number of turns and difficulty). Each map is randomly generated, and
wins the player with the highest score when reaching the turn maximum.

Colonies cannot be created. Instead, there are independent planets that must
be conquered in order to adding them to your empire. Colony management is
almost automatic, as there are no facilities (apart of certain orbital
platforms) to build and resources are used and divided by the computer. The
different types of ships and troops, also, are automatically built in planets
equipped with the necessary tech. Tech is discovered linearly as you progress,
but each planet has a tech level (that also advances automatically when in an
empire) that determines what can be constructed there. You can, however,
establish the general purpose of a colony (agricultural, military outpost, raw
material mine…) and transport freely resources and troops between colonies,
and you must pay attention to several statistics (efficiency, warehouses, type
of planet…).

As there is no diplomacy (except a message system for multiplayer), Anacreon
plays mainly as a game about war and conquest.