Re: Galaxy Variants

From: terkans@euronet.nl (Maarten M Hazewinkel)

Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <4pj322$lov@nyx.eos.hokudai.ac.jp>,
mike@geophys.hokudai.ac.jp (Mikhail A. Menshov) wrote:

>Everything that doesn't change the principles of the game is intersting,
>but is not very important really. You can change planet distribution,
>but you can not assign equally strong neghbour players to everybody
>A player who's neighbour has dropped out will have an advantage in
>any initial distribution:-))

Definitely.
I remember my first game. I was lucky, and had a corner position.
I had 2 neighbours close by.
My first turn, I built a heavy, fast warship, which wiped out the
homeplanet of one neighbour on turn 3.
The second neighbour got his homeplanet wiped by a second ship on
either turn 4 or 5.
Despite a total lack of experience at the game, I was about 3rd
in power, I think.
It's been a while, so I'm hazy on details.

Anyway, this is one reason why I support some improvement in the
galaxy generation code. If those homeplanets had been just a little
further away, I would not have been able to execute such a swift
attack, while still making the warship powerful enough to have good
odds of winning the battle.

Maarten

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References

Re: Galaxy Variants
mike@geophys.hokudai.ac.jp (Mikhail A. Menshov)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Galaxy Variants
mike@geophys.hokudai.ac.jp (Mikhail A. Menshov)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000