Re: Galaxy: trading ?

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

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <61iuqi$g15$1@malibu.unice.fr> desnogue@aiguemarine.unice.fr writes:
>In article <61ik9bINNksl@interlego.cs.utk.edu>, bampton@interlego.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer) writes:
>[...]
>> Change the code so that each system is of different size (and
>> resources?) for each player- i.e. one player's 900 world may only be
>> of size 200 for the next one.
>
>   That'd mean that bombing a world would result in a lower
>size?  In the middle and end part of a game, there would not
>be much room for the colonists I keep on my big worlds ;)

No, you've misunderstood me.

Say we have 3 players in a game.

System 100 is size 300 when player A looks at it.

To player B, it is a 900 world.

Player C finds it to be only size 70.

This would be more realistic- a species that is used to one range of
climates might find only a samll part of a world habitable, while
another might find the whole planet so. Mars for example, would be
less useful than Earth to humans, while a species that developed on a
colder world might find Mars quite refeshing.

To really frustrate things, you then use the "each player has a
separate name for each system" code as is found in Galaxy Explorer,
and add in a "galactic north varies for each species", and you've got
people climbing the walls. (:-)

I had toyed around with something like what you were thinking several
years ago- every turn the systems get smaller. Eventually, the galaxy
becomes uninhabitable... Basically, it was an attempt to put a
time limit on the game, since many people are not going to stick it
out through a game that spans 100 turns over 2 years...

Before anyone points it out to me, yes, I know that claiming "realism"
in galaxy doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
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References

Galaxy: trading ?
phy3dxl3@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr D Lovett)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
bampton@interlego.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)
Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
desnogue@bavi.unice.fr (Laurent.DESNOGUES)
Thu, 09 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 ?
bampton@interlego.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)
Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy: trading ?
desnogue@bavi.unice.fr (Laurent.DESNOGUES)
Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000