I have been playing Sid Meier's Starships for some time as well as thinking about pulling in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Colonization and Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth.
For those unfamiliar, The game is a stand-alone title but shares the same universe as Civilization: Beyond Earth, putting the player in control of a fleet of space-faring craft. The player will use the fleet to explore the galaxy, meeting other human and alien forces, and dealing with problems through a combination of military, diplomatic, and other strategic options. Spacecraft in the fleet can be highly customized for meeting certain goals. The game features cross-connectivity features with Beyond Earth for those that own both titles. Meier wanted to focus on starship creation, including highly configurable ships, and space combat, while providing the player with "a universe filled with interstellar adventure, diplomacy, and exploration".
That being said, it ties into Apple's Game Center, but it is not human multiplayer like some of his other games - there's multiple opponents. Given that, does this qualify for gaming consideration for things like Sphinx Cup Range challenges and the like?
For Queen and Empire.
The Idea of the marksmanship program gaming challenges are to have TRMN members play games together.
Unless you are playing multiplayer with other members, the game time wouldn't count.
An easy game to play online, which shares your profile across devices is Star Realms. You take the time actually played (roughly 15 minutes per game) but it's easy to crank out a whole bunch, and play multiple games at once!
Much obliged Baron and thanks for your service in office!!!
I had an idea - that I thought might be worthy of discussion: If a group were to be playing Starships together in the same place, such that they were interacting indirectly, but were all playing the game - would that be an acceptable strategy in this case for the Marksmanship game requirements?
For Queen and Empire!
As it was said previously, for the purpose of the Marksmanship program, playing the game together with other TRMN members is one of the key aspects. That is, if the rule is followed to the letter - now - in this case, if it's done as a meeting with other TRMN members, for the purpose of playing the game and having fun together? If that was up to me, I'd say it counts, as the spirit of the rule, that being spending time and playing games with other TRMN members, is fulfilled just fine.