Game 2

The Game
Olympia is a computer moderated play-by-electronic-mail (PBEM) fantasy simulation. Each player controls a small group of nobles, who may lead commoners, fight, build ships and castles, explore, trade, slay monsters, study skills such as construction, beastmastery or combat, and research spells in the six schools of magic.

Olympia campaigns have no set conclusions, and typically run for several years, with new players continually joining. The map has thousands of provinces, each containing features such as cities, ruins, lairs, sacred groves, castles, etc. The game is capable of supporting hundreds of players in the same world.

History
Refered by many as The time of warfare, the second installment of the Olympia PBEM game, run by Rich Skrenta, from around February 1997 and was halted around turn 362, end of 2003/beginning 2004.

Turns had a cost of 2.50$ but turn 256 (29-jan-2002) was the last time the report included a balance section and the game became free to play.

On 05-may-2009, Rich Skrenta has done the following announcement

''Olympia has been dormant for many years now. A few folks have asked me for olympia-related materials, so I've decided to make the source code and background files publicly available. This release includes both the g1 and g2 source trees, and the associated skill files, rules documentation, and so forth.''

''I doubt anyone would be interested in getting this running again, but I'm making it available for historical interest. The old C code has rotted a bit, so this is released "as is" - no support. Enjoy. :)''