Re: Simplifying Galaxy

From: "Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>

Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000

TK Whipp wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Michael Hodgson wrote:
>
> > > What's wrong with producing mass 80 ships?... even on size 400 worlds you
> > > can produce mass 40 ships..... which are very usefull.
> > > You can create fleets with these mass 40 ships to defend flanks or
> > > secondary attacks or.....etc...etc..
> > >
> >
> > Nothing wrong with it at all, and yes they can be extreemly useful.  It's
> > just the number of designs you need...
> > In general if a simlified galaxy were in the pipeline, do people think
> > that ship design should be kept, or ditched in favour of 'standard
> > designs'.  In the latter case I would be interested to hear from
> > experianced players what should be included...
>
> well further to this Michal and I where having a chat today about this and
> other stuff, one idea that came up (from me don't blame him) was to design
> small ships...
>
> eg      D Cruiser 4 1 3.5 2.4 0
>
> specifying how you want the mass split in your ship, when you produce a
> ship these masses are automatically scaled to the maximum that the world
> can produce and a new design registered as [shipname]_[worldname], number
> of attacks would need to be held constant or the weapons strength fixed,
> one way or the other... I would favor fixed number of attacks.
>
> thus if Orion can produce mass 30 ships you get:
>
>         Cruiser_Orion 12 1 10.5 7.2 0
>
> only problem I can see with this is trying to build multiple ships (such
> as drones or fighters) perhaps you could have a special terminator
> (say _STANDARD) which means build exactly to the specs
>
> Addmittedly this adds a little complexity to orders but I'm sure a
> suitable syntax could be found.
>
> The other modification I think should be made to Galaxy is that I think
> all races should get 0.05 tech in all techs every turn... I think that
> some discoveries would be broadcast and some would be made just by chance
> and so I think there ought to be some automatic progression.
>
> I also think that auto-tech increases would mean that techs age, in much
> the same way ships do.  If you consider two races where one reasearches a
> point of tech in the first 10 turns then that race will always have a lead
> on the race which does not... however the significance of that early
> reasearch will degrade with time.
>
> just thoughts
>
>         Tom

This is the best idea I've ever heard of for galaxy.

References

Re: Simplifying Galaxy
weertj@xs2.xs4all.nl (Jacco van Weert)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Simplifying Galaxy
Michael Hodgson <mkh100@york.ac.uk>
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Simplifying Galaxy
TK Whipp <tkw100@york.ac.uk>
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for a good pbem
Yoni Rhein <famrhein@worldnet.att.net>
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for a good pbem
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Simplifying Galaxy
Stig Hemmer <stig@pvv.ntnu.no>
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000