MEGA HYPER GALACTIC CONQUEST     MHGC is your typical expand / grow / kill everyone else space conquest game. The name is derived from an old game I wrote and ran at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI or the 'tute) and HyperEconomic Diplomacy (a.k.a. GeoDiplomacy or Geodip). I was playing Geodip at the time I became motivated enough to ruin my life with this incredible time sink. The game is at best vaguely related to either of these preceding games, so don't base any strategies on the name selection. In the game, players attempt to balance expansion, capital investment, technology investment, and military conquest in order to be crowned "Grand Poohba of the Universe." MHGC has a web based front end (or you can do straight ascii text via a web interface if you like that sort of thing). From here, you may See a screen shot of the GUI Check out the MHGC FORUM Check out the MHGC FAQ Download the MHGC rules in ascii format (Version 4.0) Download Version 4 (including rules, executables for playing a demo version, a quick start guide, and a .jnlp file for starting the game) See a slightly out of date video introducing the game (this is 100 meg and will take a while to download) See the winner's circle for previous games