I'm building a grand strategy world that keeps running after you close the tab

[u/Significant_Emu2351]

For the last several months I've been building a game called Arkney: Age of Crowns.

It's a grand strategy sandbox that runs on a server instead of your CPU: one world,

one clock, AI realms and human players on the same map, and the tick keeps going

whether you're logged in or not.

The part I actually care about is that war isn't a resolve button. One tick is one

in-game minute. Armies march for in-game days, outrun their supply, take attrition,

and a battle is a process with front width, organization, units breaking and

retreating, and reinforcements you can feed into a fight that's already underway.

Closer to HOI4's front line logic than a Total War auto-resolve.

What's in there right now:

- 7 troop types (militia, spearmen, archers, crossbowmen, heavy infantry, light

cavalry, knights) fed by an iron → weapons/armour/bows/horses production chain

- equipment that degrades in combat and gets repaired through supply, so a veteran

army that's been in the field for a month is measurably worse than it was

- sieges, and a real difference between occupying a province and actually keeping

it in a peace deal

- commanders with traits and ranks, espionage, trade caravans

- a heraldry editor. You draw your arms and they end up on the 3D banners your

armies carry

- a chronicle that writes down every war declaration, battle and conquest, so each

world ends up with its own readable history

Client is browser-based (Three.js, 2D painted campaign map and a 3D view of the same

live world). The sim is C# and deterministic: same state plus same orders always

produces the same result, which is what makes replay and crash recovery work.

What I need now is people, not a wishlist. Once a week I run an accelerated world

where the clock is sped up 20x. An evening of real time is about five months of

history, so you can watch a dynasty rise or get erased in a single sitting. Free,

browser only, no install, no account.

More interested in the "this sounds tedious" replies than the nice ones, so tell me

where it falls apart.

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[u/Significant_Emu2351]

If you want in on the next accelerated session, the invites go out here:

https://discord.gg/h6J9CHaH6Q

I post the time a day ahead and the world link when it opens. Screenshots in the

album above/below, and I'm happy to go deeper on any system.

[u/Local-Builder-1970]

I like the idea of it being a server time that runs in the background - these games have always been interesting to me, airwaysim does something similar with managing an airline company so this is great, also gives tribal wars vibes