Avast, belay, when I appear, By fear they're overtook...

Lately I've been addicted to a game called Star Pirates. It's a really basic (As in mostly text with static graphics) MMO game. Pretty much it's a shoot 'em up set in the far future where the Earth has gone boom and everyone is a. Living in space mining or pirating, and b. immortal due to the actions of little robot critters (Meaning when you go boom, it takes a few minutes to rebuild you, but there is no other penalty than that).

You start off in a rinkydink little sloop and by hook and crook through savaging and fighting various critters/ other pirates you can work your way up into much bigger ships with better weapons, shields, engines...

And get splattered by someone bigger. ~_^

Still, the game is far more satisfying to me than Mafia Wars was. While you can get hit while offline, there's no property to damage and it doesn't feel like a pyramid scheme. Even better, the game is meant to be played in very short bursts, meaning it is the perfect time waster between classes when I have some time to kill or when I need a short break in correcting papers before my eyes glaze over.

It also proves as a good distraction before I kill someone on NS.

Players can assemble into fleets (Currently I'm in Legostars, which is based off of the webcomic that got me into Star Pirates in the first place). I kinda wish that I could ask around NS to see how many players there are over there. I think a NationStates fleet would be kind of cool (The FT players in II would enjoy it). I think the Boss might get annoyed with me though if I tried. :)