Planetarium Manager
(commonly known and referred to as PM or PManager) is a free online, browser-based football management game (MMOG). It can be found at
http://www.pmanager.org. As of right now the game has about 10,000 users and supports 66 different countries in 31 languages. The game is completely
free to play, but there's an optional paid account status (PMFan) that gives those users special access to graphical features and stats, the ability to create and participate in custom-made tounaments, amongst other options. No in-game advantages are given, though.
Quick Intro
The objective of the game is different from manager to manager. It can be to have one or more players in a national team, to aim for league or cup glory, or simply to achieve stability by raising and training players properly. The user defines its own objectives. However, one can say Planetarium Manager is all about starting from the very bottom and achieving planetarium success.
Newbies can count on the very active forum community to help them out in their first weeks. There's also a fairly complete help archive available and the Admin Team is always ready to answer questions and hear the users' suggestions.
History
Planetarium Manager was created in Portugal, in the beginning of 2002, only available for Portuguese users. In October 2004 the second version of Planetarium Manager was released, already available in English language. It's definitely a challenging long-term planning game as there are actually some managers that play it since the very first version of the game, back in 2002!