I enjoy an online game called Utopia. It is hosted by a group called swirve. It is a text based game, you are in charge of a province which is grouped with 24 other provinces to form a kingdom. The posting to a kingdom is random so you really can't play with your friends. You control how big your military is which buildings to build those sorts of things.

It has a wide range of of options, you can play one of several different races all with their own abilities and you choose what personality to play as ie. General, mage, shepard, etc...

As for your game Eros I'll give it a try.

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