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Netrek is a cross platform multi-player battle simulation with a Star Trek theme!

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Welcome to Netrek

This is the official home page. 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.


To get started, download a client:

Windows: For Windows, choose Netrek XP 2010 v1.0,
or for a small download, Netrek XP Mod v4.4.0.4

Mac OS X: For Apple's OS X, grab MacTrek-1_5_0.zip

Linux: For Linux, See this page http://netrek.org/downloads/linux.php


Then, read Netrek in one paragraph or the full Newbie Guide and start playing.


New Utilities: Netrek Game On! and Who Plays Netrek


There are some new utilities for Netrek to let people see how many players are on the servers, so they can see if a game is on and join in.

Netrek Game On! should run on Windows, Linux, or Macintosh; it's written in Java. Under Windows, you can iconize it to the task bar and keep an eye on when to play. Grab the latest version from the files section.

Quick Start Guide: Once you have a client installed:

    * fire it up, choose a server, log in as guest, choose a team.
    * 0 thru 9 sets your speed,
    * left mouse button is torpedos, middle mouse button (scroll wheel) is phasers, right mouse button sets course.
    * "s" to raise or drop your shields.
    * "mt" to send a message to your teammates, "mA" to send a message to everyone.
    * Read messages. This is very important.
    * watch your fuel level, and destroy the other team's ships. Don't worry about getting killed; just grab a new ship and jump back in.

Netrek is a pretty complicated game, so you might want to read the newbieguide for a step-by-step intro.

http://netrek.org/

 

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