-- New Galaxy Game Starting -- From: Frans Slothouber <slothoub@cs.utwente.nl> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000 -- NEW GALAXY GAME STARTING -- -- G A L A X Y C H A O S -- I plan to start a new galaxy in the near future. It will be called Chaos. It will run at a speed of 3 turns a week for the first 15 turns, and will then slow down to 2 turns a week. This is a galaxy-ng game. Galaxy-ng is a variation on galaxy, it uses the same rules with the exception of: (1) an improved (more fair) distribution of planets, and you start of with 2 home planets instead of 1. (2) a new bomb rules, when ever a planet is bombed the player that bombed the planet becomes the owner of the planet. However the population and industry are reduced to 25% or the original size. The effect of rule 2 is that is speeds up the game, I've run similar sized games, with galaxy the game took 100 turns, with galaxy-ng it took 50 turns. Basically because you are forced to fight to grow. You can and must of course take care of your economy, but you also have to fight to keep up with the others. In my view this makes the game more dynamic, but if you like slow games, only based on economic development you might not like this game. Galaxy-ng is compatible with GalaxyTV. Automated orders checking is available. Plus an automated top xx of the best players on the WWW. -- How to Join -- I plan this game to be large, 40 or 50 players. If you want to join the game, send a mail with the subject join galaxy to the following address slothoub@cs.utwente.nl Your request will be processed by an automated server, and you will get a mail as soon as you name has been put on the players list. -- More information -- Galaxy Information http://www.jacobean.demon.co.uk/gtrav.html Galaxy-ng information: http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~slothoub/Galaxy/galaxyng.html Galaxy-ng rules: http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~slothoub/Galaxy/ManGalaxyNG.html Tools: http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~slothoub/Galaxy/Tools/galaxytools.html Galaxy-TV: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/t.hughes/ My Other galaxy Games: http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~slothoub/Galaxy/ Have Fun Frans Slothouber. -- ( Frans Slothouber, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology ) ( www.xs4all.nl/~slothoub slothoub@cs.utwente.nl ) Up