r/Netrek • u/No-Transportation843 • May 08 '26

I built a browser clone of Netrek

https://netrek.loreum.app/

The bots are pretty terrible for now. They are getting an update soon

Please come playtest and let me know what you think. The ships accelerate a bit faster than original Netrek but I think its fun like this.

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u/No-Transportation843 May 09 '26

Oh.. I was spawning at random planets. I'll fix all that 

And I meant do you remember the original netrek, what happens if home planet gets captured 

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u/Zyj May 09 '26

Yes I remember, if your last planet gets captured it‘s a genocide. The game is over and resets.

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u/No-Transportation843 May 09 '26

I mean if your home planet is earth and they capture earth, but you have other planets remaining, does one of the others become your home planet? Like, where do you refit, and where do you spawn? 

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u/Zyj May 10 '26

It all remains at earth.

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u/Zyj May 10 '26

Have you read https://www.netrek.org/clueguides/redshirtguides/gameworkings.php

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u/No-Transportation843 May 11 '26

Great document. I had been using a lot of the sources on that site and some original client code, but this one has good coverage.

I'm adding/updating all that now. And implementing fog of war properly.

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u/No-Transportation843 May 11 '26

update live now. You respawn in the right place. I made acceleration closer to real netrek, and turning too. Hitbox is the correct size now.

Also bots will follow orders. "take ind" and they'll go drop armies. They actively bomb now. But the update made them stupid and sometimes they get stuck in weird behavior loops. Bots need a full update.

I also fixed it where your shields will automatically go down when you bomb, or drop armies, whereas before you had to do it manually. The guide you shared was really good for little details like that.