Re: Galaxy Variants

From: slothoub@cs.utwente.nl (Frans Slothouber)

Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Mikhail A. Menshov (mike@geophys.hokudai.ac.jp) wrote:

: slothoub@xs4all.nl (Confused) wrote

: >: Recently there was a suggestion to add a variant to Outback which is
: >: apparently being tested in Xzone.
: >
: >: This variant consists of permitting attackers to take over planets
: >: by bombing
: [...]
: >I am the GM for Xzone, to answer your questions,
: [stuff deleted]

: Frans, why don't you just create some other game instead. Galaxy is
: a very self-consistant game and adding all this nonsence without first
: giving it much thought is very unlikely to produce anything better then
: the original.

: Good luck in your searches, but none of the latest new ideas has
: impressed me as something good for the game;-)

Thanks for your well funded comments (:) <-- sarcastig grin) and don`t
try to disguise a harsh comment with a ';-)'

You might not like it but the players that currently are playing in
Xzone and Matix (Jacco van Weert is one of them) do enjoy the game.
And it the experience with Xzone that these new rules have created a
more dynamic and more interesting game.

It might be the case that the new bombing rule proves to be a little
more complex than predicted, but there is a similar problem with
two players unloading colonist on an empty planet.

I -DID- give these new rules considerable thought before I implemented
them, and discussed them with other players. And I think it is rather
unfair that you critize these new rules when you don`t play in the
game and therefore have no experience with them.

Somehow it seems that many people are afraid of change... I see
now harm in experimenting with new variants that could possibly
improve the game.

Frans.

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References

Re: Galaxy Variants
mike@geophys.hokudai.ac.jp (Mikhail A. Menshov)
Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Galaxy Variants
mike@geophys.hokudai.ac.jp (Mikhail A. Menshov)
Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000