My Brother discovered another potent 4X Time killer for three weeks

http://triton.ironhelmet.com/#landing

This game pits you vs 7 other real anonymous players in a variety of 4X galaxies.

Production gets you ships and technology more or less in real time. 
The income arrives every 24th hour of the game, giving you a turn-based feel.

Game leader board category graphs are also logged on various hourly intervals for that turn-based sense of competitive progress.

The how to’s highly recommend at least a few diplomatic alliances to assist on trading technology research gains.  Up to you whether you honor chat agreements, or stab someone who helped you tech up.

All it takes is a yahoo or google account for login and

Here is a German speaker’s explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0NvAlcW9lw

another view of the prior beta version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDiYndob5c

Playing a game on this site would need about 3 logins a day , and a game could take 2-3 wks of daily play to resolve.  Cannot login for a few days?  Well, the new ver provides an autopilot empire manager that triggers when you have not entered any commands in over a day.  My brother says the AI for it is v weak, operates only production w no ship movements, and you may only find the neighbors have taken out peripheral chunks or more of your galaxy by the time you log back in.

2 ongoing games are allowed per account. 
You can quit a game in the middle too.  This allows you to join a new galaxy waiting for the full roster of 8 players before starting.

A&A takes about 1 day to finish
this one can take 11-30+

My wife and I took 3 days to drive back from my brothers apartment , and I had many visions of that game during the trip. 
Then I realized that the fleet movements that look like your flight progress views from some of the airline flights very much mimic Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon (visible train movements on the tracks), which was also highly addictive.

I am married.  I plan on staying that way. 
My brother is still single.
I will refrain from this one.