Re: Galaxy ?

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

Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <33721F23.41C67EA6@engr.uvic.ca> Stacey Kraus <skraus@engr.uvic.ca> writes:
>I have played Galaxy for about a year now and have one question that
>seems that I have a harder time with in the Game.  How do you manage to
>build up your industry quickly.  I have found that I am usually not the
>least developed but far from one of the more developed players.

>So far I have had the strategy of populating planets the then switching
>them to produce tech.  While populating, I build up the planet with the
>best resource base for extra tech or to build ships.

>Is there a better way to build up you Industry, such as keeping all your
>planets producing CAP until they are fully developed or such.  Any help
>or suggestions on the strategy would be appreciated

If one is trying to optimize growth, it is best to leave a system
producing cap until it is fully industrialzed. For low resource
systems (<1) you will need to ship in more cap, since their ability to
grow themselves is less.

It is still more effective to ship in cap (rather than mat) even at
low resource systems:

Ind   Resource  Mat  CAP  Ind    Ind
                Ship Ship Added  Added (Blind Galaxy)
100   any       lots 0    16.67  33.00
100   10.0      0    0    16.39  32.78
100    1.0      0    0    14.28  28.56
100    0.1      0    0     6.25   12.5

Now, assume we have the ability to ship in 17 units of "stuff":

Ind   Resource  Mat  CAP  Ind    Ind
                Ship Ship Added  Added (Blind Galaxy)
100   10.0      17    0   16.67  33.00
100   10.0      0    17   33.67  67.00
100    1.0      17    0   16.67  33.00
100    1.0      0    17   31.28  62.56
100    0.1      17    0   16.67  33.00
100    0.1      0    17   23.25  46.50
100    0.0      17    0   16.67  33.00       <- Can not happen
100    0.0      0    17   17.00  34.00       <- Can not happen

As you can see, even if a system has horribly low resources, shipping
cap is more effective if your shipping capacity is limited. The
numbers may change if the world would be topped off under one of these
strategies.

Once you've topped the world off, it is a different story however.

Howard
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References

Galaxy ?
Stacey Kraus <skraus@engr.uvic.ca>
Thu, 08 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000