Re: Galaxy: trading ?

From: TK Whipp <tkw100@york.ac.uk>

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

On 18 Oct 1997, Tony  Chen wrote:

> Mr D Lovett (phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk) wrote:

> Since we don't want newly colonized planets to be defenseless, we could
> consider 1% of the planet's population as militia troop. This number
> is added to the number of defending troop during battle. That way new
> colonies is not defenseless and defending side gets an advantage which
> could be explained as better supplies and knowledge of terrain and
> the increased morale of people defending their home.

This would lead to the tatic of letting my oponent colonise worlds I
wanted... and then dropping my col down a turn later... I have my full COL
ammount and he has only 1% (or whatever fraction you choose - make the
number to high and it invalidates the idea of troops and civilians).

Net effect I will win the ground battle... and get his people.

Bingo - I get double pop expansion in the first few turns and my neighbour
loses all of his.

Maybe I'm being extream but its how I'd play under those rules.

Given the idea of using a varient of ship to ship combat.
A possible solution would be to consider defenders to be:

0	1	1	x+1	0

and attackers to be

0	1	1	x	0

(I surgest x=1)

Then allow half pop on a planet to be militia - the advantage to taking a
world in this manner is that you keep the CAP that is there.

And also allow shield and weapon techs to affect troops... thus highly
advanced civalisations can take over worlds inhabited by barbarians with a
handful of troops but the inverse is definatly not true.

Tom

PS:
What about allowing ships to be transported as cargo?  ie orbital shield
flak being shifted over to a colony in a magafrieghter.

References

Galaxy: trading ?
phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
poing@luna.nl (Paul van der Valk)
Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy: trading ?
phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
poing@luna.nl (Paul van der Valk)
Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000