Terra Est Quaestuosa

Terra Est Quaestuosa, commonly abbreviated as TEQ, is a web-based massively multiplayer online strategy game developed by Niels Schoot and Bastiaan Berendsen. This game has been operating since 1998 and has been played by tens of thousands of people. In this game, the players must create, manage and expand a country through war and trade.

Gameplay
In their server of choice, players create countries and start with a basic number of territories with which to establish their newly formed country. They are also provided with a starting sum of euros to pay for your country's growth, building components to build on your territory, bread to feed your people and a small military force. Players are then given a security period (based on their server of choice) that provides them with attack immunity so that they can build up their country and defenses.

The game is a turn-based system and you start with 0 turns at the beginning of each play cycle (referred to as set or reset) and accumulate 1 turn every 15 or 25 minutes (based on the server being played) until the maximum number of stored turns associated with that server has been reached. Turns are used for designing, studying emerging technology, attacking or working overtime. Each set lasts for one month, and the winner is declared by the player with the highest net worth.

Growth
Players extend and evolve by acquiring new territories, these can either be purchased or captured by force. They can then be allocated to various buildings, including military forms of production (barracks and war factories), prouduction buildings (bakeries, steel factories, research facilities and cement factories), missile defense facilities and buildings that generate revenue (beaches, solar panels, tax offices and condominiums). If they create cash to buy units and resources or produce units to sell for resources or produce resources to sell for units, these buildings can decide what sort of economy the player has.

Military
There are seven different military units that are available. There are m arines, fighters, bombers and tanks used for invasion, heavy lasers used in combination with defensive strike teams, warheads and SEALs used for covert operations. Each attacking unit is capable of a tailored attack that targets a particular defending unit to capture or kill a particular resource, in addition to the normal attacks.

Servers
Currently, there are 4 different types of servers and gamemodes to play in. Each server has different conditions and rules. These servers are:
 * Team Server: As the name suggests, it allows players to team up and compete as a team of up to 10 players. Protection lasts for the first 150 turns with 150 turns the maximum storable number of turns and turns accumulated every 15 minutes. The winning criteria is individual and is based on highest net worth.
 * Group Server: This server is designed for small groups of three players. Protection lasts for the first 200 turns with 200 turns the maximum storable number of turns and turns accumulated every 15 minutes. All sorts of missile attacks, including buildings and technologies associated with missile offenses or defenses, are absent. Winning criteria is based on the group's performance: half of their net worth plus half of their group's total net worth divided by 3.
 * Tournament Server: This is a free-for-all server. Forming alliances with other players is strictly prohibited. Protection is for the first 250 turns and a maximum 250 turns can be stored, with turns replenished every 15 minutes. This server is divided into 3 levels, and the winner is the player in level 1 with the highest net worth.
 * Express Server: This server was introduced in the game in 2010 as the "Quickstart server." It was designed for newer players and veteran players. The server allows the player to select a strategy and set up their country as if they had played 100 turns in the game to create that type of country. However, global points for this server are not awarded, so rivalry and aggressive play are usually lower. This serves to keep new players healthy as they are practicing the game's fundamentals.

Trivia

 * Players are awarded global rankings based on their performances in each set of each server. These points are used to determine an overall ranking within the game.
 * Initially the game was called Terra Est Quaestuosus, which is incorrect in Latin, since Terra is female. The name was changed to Quaestuosa after receiving criticism when the website's name was publicised in the media in 2000.