OGame: don't we have all these childhood memories, filled with joy and seemingly endless fun? What once gave us hours of fun is now back - but much better!
I will start with my first experience of OGame. It's 2003, when the eighth universe in OGame history was born. Friends, neighbours and internet acquaintances have come together to form a powerful alliance and thus dominate the universe as top players. Epic space battles have entered the chronicles...
As one of the first alliances in the eighth universe, Gordor 
Through the expansion of our planet, we were able to quickly distribute resources among each other in order to promote each other. If one of our members was attacked once (at that time the speed of the server was x1) we had enough time to form up and fight off the attack together by tactics and strategy.
Through skilful manoeuvres we were able to develop sophisticated attack and defense strategies. By our considered acting we could hold ourselves over years in the Top-3 of the alliances.
This is how you can describe OGame if you register for one of the newer universes and search the galaxy for debris fields with familiar playmates or if you create new debris fields.
By redesigning the game interface, the game has definitely become more attractive. New features have been implemented, browser extensions have been developed and new large alliances have been formed. OGame, as it was developed in its time, is generally overhauled and offers a new visual and playful feeling of the classic browser game.
The Internet is constantly growing and developers are programming and implementing new game modes, improving gameplay or integrating new reward and payment methods. OGame has also profited from this!
For example, you can gain small advantages in the game in many different ways. Whether this is now Pay2Win, I leave it to the discretion. However: with the dark matter a feature was created, which makes the faster development of buildings and fleets possible.
While you might be straining your wallet to gain an advantage inGame, there is already a great alternative on the Steem Blockchain called NextColony. A space browser game with RPG elements that can even be transferred to other players. So while you are building your first planet you can also sell your items and earn valuable STEEM. A game with earning possibilities and not only to put money in!
Steem is THE decentralized blockchain, which rewards users for articles, pictures, videos, vlogs comments or whatever is published. If a person on Steem likes your content or comments, he votes for you and you will be rewarded with the crypto currency STEEM / SBD. Not bad, huh?
Maybe you not only want to play NextColony, but also publish some content. With some activity on the Steem-Blockchain you will notice that you can earn some STEEM quite fast by different ways.
And what makes the whole thing even more relaxing: Steem is a very pleasant environment. Above all, the dynamics and strength of the Steem community are remarkable. A good sound is much more present than on other "social" platforms. Cooperation is not uncommon.
And that's exactly why great projects like NextColony emerge within the community.
Since the release of NextColony (https://nextcolony.io) on 04/22/019 I've been testing it intensively and felt 15 years younger - no cream can do that!
The classic features of OGame combined with the new possibilities of the Steem-Blockchain, results in a very interesting concept. Not only the connection to the Blockchain and its rewardsystem itself. This results in completely new, interactive possibilities!
If you are active on the Steem Blockchain, you can, for example, use the income from your comments, posts, vlogs or instagram feeds (by the votes of other users) to buy a box of resources internally or a rune for an increased boost on your planet.
In the good old days of OGame, people used to talk and chat... And also here you arrived in the year 2019. Nowadays Discord offers the possibility to easily use your own text and voice channels. Whether to communicate, exchange strategies or to coordinate - the game fun increases enormously. All in all, the communication between the players and within the alliance is also decisive in NextColony.
I mentioned the new ships, buildings and even skills? Again, NextColony makes its forerunner OGame look literally old.
For me, the skills are one of the decisive points that make the game so incredibly attractive.
The possibility to form alliances, similar to what is possible in the OGame, will also exist at NextColony. The developers and programmers at NextColony are very active and the roadmap looks very promising. If you even know the developers a bit, then you know: this is a serious project.
Interesting: with NextColony, alliances across several galaxies are also possible.
Even if some mechanisms might remind of OGame, many aspects and mechanisms in the game are fundamental and refreshingly new. The gameplay is designed so that you can't populate more planets by expanding your sensor phalanx like in OGame. In NextColony you literally fly through the galaxy and explore the depths of the galaxy with your explorer. With a little luck, your explorer will find another planet nearby, which is then ready for expansion. So your own empire grows bit by bit. Within an alliance you can even hand over planets to another player.
And that's where the skills kick in. Once you have skilled for your account, for example expanding your resources, you can apply skills and expansions to any of your other planets.
If I would focus my strategy in the game on expanding my warships, I would need all the more production from one resource. A found planet with a large copper supply would be ideal for me to expand my fleet. All known principles - you will quickly find your fun entry into NextColony!
If you rather use the strategy to serve as a supplier of an alliance, it is worth buying items from the shop that you can buy for STEEM. These give a strong increase in resources and offer an enormous increase in production over the long term.
So it can be imagined: the NextColony offers various possibilities to become the ruler of the universe (and also of the blockchain) again.
Here you can find Youtube videos from players about the game:
I'll see you around.
your @RivalzZz
