Re: New Galaxy Game Matrix

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

Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Race (race@smartstuff.com) wrote:
: In article <4m4srs$bjq@news.xs4all.nl>, slothoub@xs1.xs4all.nl (Confused) wrote:

: > ===========     M  A  T  R  I  X    ============
: >
: > The game will be somewhat different from the traditional galaxy
: > games in that it will use an new (and possibly improved) routine
: > to create the initial layout of the galaxy.
: >
: > Each player will start with 3 fully developed home planets
: > instead of 1.  One of size 1000 and two of size 500.

: I would just like to comment that one of the more challenging and exciting
: aspects of Galaxy is the early play, when decision making is critical, and
: significant risks and challenges exist. Namely, spending production on ONE
: thing at a time. Outback, with two homeworlds, reduced this risk
: drastically. Three homeworlds would virtually eliminate it. I am not
: saying dont run a game this way, by all means experiment! But understand
: you are removing an aspect of the game by adding multiple homeworlds.

I agree with you that it removes that challenges. However the
advantage of this approach is that it shortens the tedious time needed
to fill up a few empty planets (something I find very boring).  One
can now can directly go to the good parts that is fighting!

And it is still difficult to decide what to produce...
It is now possible to produce a well balanced fleet in one turn.
Bur so can the enemy. Does one prepare for that... or rather
risk build heaps of cargo ships to keep up with fast growing races...

and there are now three planets to defend..

But it is, as I wrote, all an experiment... it could turn
out to make the game boring... it could also make it better,
we just have yo find out, but that's what experiments are for.

Thanks for the remark though.

Frans.

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References

New Galaxy Game Matrix
slothoub@xs1.xs4all.nl (Confused)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: New Galaxy Game Matrix
race@smartstuff.com (Race)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00:00 +0000