Re: Galaxy Variants

From: sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Sjoerd Schreuder)

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

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
[stuff deleted]

I don't think this is a good idea, and I'll give a reason why not
(which may be very obvious to experienced Galaxy players, which will
 explain why other posters didn't bother to give the reason)

The reason is that the attacker is already heavily favored in (standard)
Galaxy, so why favor him even more by allowing him to capture a planet
and use it? At the moment, one needs to build a planet before it's
usefull, which slows down expansion. With the new rule, it would become
possible to take out one player, and using his production, take out the others.

In game 7, which I lost due to lack of time, I destroyed the fleet of
the second best player in one turn, bombing all his planets the second turn.
Would I have been able to use his production, I would have been able
to kill the third player without doubt within several more turns, and then
I would have won the game. In the real game, it took a long time to use
those planets. In fact, most planets were still rocks 20 turns later.

So the main reason not to allow planets to be captured is that it's
another advantage to the attacker, who has (too?) many advantages already.

Sjoerd Schreuder
Zwagonians (galaxy 7)
Also played in Beta, Gamma and some other games.
Retired for two years now.