New Blind Galaxy Game Hercules Starting

From: bampton@interlego.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)

Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 00:00:00 +0000

I will be starting one Blind Galaxy game shortly (turn 0 reports will
go out on the 13th of March, 1998).

See:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bampton/blind.html
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm.html
http://www.jacobean.demon.co.uk/gtrav.html

for details about what Blind Galaxy is, as well as the currently
released rules and source code.

This game will be using my newest code (2.47 beta) with all the usual
options (K commands, Partial techs, password support).

It will have my typical double bind forwarding system and forecaster.

I will not be playing in the game.

This game will run two turns per week.

There will be about 20-25 players, I expect (I already have 14 signed up),
and 400-500 systems. The galaxy size will probably be 200LY (depends
upon the number of players).

New and experienced players are welcome.

Notes:
Blind Galaxy reports are different than most other galaxy variations.
Most tools won't like them without some modification. Goggle, and
GalaxyTV are known to not work
(http://home.att.net/~salamon/galaxy.html has a mac client?)
Erin Anderson is working on a Win95 client, see:
http://members.tripod.com/~erisande/vgalaxy.html

There will be no more than 3 players per site, 2 if the game has fewer
than 20 players (Exception: large ISP's such as Netcom might be
allowed to exceed this). There are obvious ways to get around this,
but please honor the spirit.

Turns will run on Fridays, around 8AM Eastern USA time.
This is 13:00 GMT for those more accustomed to that time zone.

This game is expected to last at least a year, and will run about
50 weeks out of the year.

To sign up, please mail me (one player per message), your choice of
empire name, and an email @ to send reports to (if different than the
sending one).

For rules, sourcecode, tools, etc, please check:
http://www.cs.utk.edu
http://www.indyramp.com/galaxy/
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm.html

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