Players then had significant latitude to explore, colonize, wage war, and role-play in various ways in the game's sizable 3-dimensional map.
Star Saga was an open-ended, space-based PBM game published by Infinite Odysseys of Hickory, North Carolina.
[2] Marte stated that, "Along the way, the game has incorporated enough nifty frills to make SS stand proudly among the premiere science fiction PBM's on the market".
[1] For race design, players used Design Points to chose a lifeform base (carbon, silicon or metallic), type such as "mammal, aerial, plant, protplasmic, [and] insectoid", as well as various abilities and attributes such as "forcefield, poison, density control, immunities, mental blast, teleportation ... types of appendages, outer covering, intelligence, and visual and auditory range".
He noted the need to manage "a bewildering amount of numbers", while stating that "with the wealth of options available, it is a game that all sci-fi fans should check out".