Re: Galaxy questions

From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)

Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In <3obdtq$bel@crcnis3.unl.edu> tulrich@unlinfo.unl.edu (Timothy Ulrich) writes:

>A couple of questions that don't seem to be explained anywhere:

>1.  If, for my first turn, I design a ship type and tell my planet to
>start building it, at the end of the turn I'll have some number of
>identical ships that are all part of a "group," right?  I can't do
>anything with them (move them, etc) until the next turn because I
>don't know the group number... again correct?  On the next turn,
>though, if I have a group of 50 ships, but I only want to send one or
>two, loaded up with cargo, to a given planet... how do I do that?  If
>I load up ships with colonists, only 10 of those 50 ships will have
>anything on them.  If I then Send 2 ships (of those 50) to some
>planet, how do I know they'll have colonists on them???  The Break off
>command doesn't seem like it will do me any good, because I'd have to
>wait until the following turn to see what the new group number was.

To send two ships from a group you do

S groupno destination 2

i.e. as it'll be your first group it will be group 1

S 1 other_planet 2

The others will stay put.

As for loading. If you load group 1 as
L 1 COL

It will split the 10 units of COL across all 50 ships (they'll travel
faster than fully laden ones but thats the only plus)

Alternatively you could do

L 1 COL 10

but remember this will break the 10 off group 1 (becoming group 2) and so
if you send group 1 anywhere you'll have sent the empty ones....

>I'm confused by how all this is going to work!

Its easy once you get the hang of it, but a little strange at first.

>2.  I'm a little confused on distances.  If my home planet is at
>134.77, 74.30  and I want to go to 137.87, 82.17, do I break out the
>calculator and plug these numbers into some calculation?  I hope so,
>because if you tell me to just use the map and a ruler I'll be in
>trouble (when I download the map into my wordprocessor, all of the
>tabs and spaces get totally screwed up... so my map isn't to scale.)

You could do the calculations by hand. Its hard work and you are sitting
in front of a computer so why bother ? There are many tools available at
FTP site cs.utk.edu in /pub/bampton/Galaxy/tools which may help. I suggest
'goggle' by Doug Selph (thanks Doug) as it does _everything_ (nearly) but
if your on a PC don't bother.

>3.  Anyone want to give a newbie some strategies?  Which ships should
>I build first?  What should I produce on my planets at first? Etc.

There are a few hints in the rules. You have to choose whether you'll grab
all available planets or just a few and try to sustain them more easily.
Remeber that someone can hit your home-world in turn 3 so be sure to build
some defences by then. Other than that, go for it, theres no definative
way to go and if there was it would be a boring game.

Have fun, and good luck.
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References

Galaxy questions
tulrich@unlinfo.unl.edu (Timothy Ulrich)
Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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Galaxy questions
tulrich@unlinfo.unl.edu (Timothy Ulrich)
Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000