Re: Galaxy questions

From: rickg@primenet.com (Rick Gardner)

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

tulrich@unlinfo.unl.edu (Timothy Ulrich) wrote:

>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?

Well, the real reason you can't do anything with them, is that
production finishes up near the end of the turn, and anything you
would want to do with them, load, unload, sending them, usually
happens at the beginning of the turn.  There is a short sequence of
events located right after the fleet orders.

>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.

I think my first turn, I broke everything else off and then loaded the
group 1 and sent it.  That works, but there is an easier way to do
this:

L 1 COL 2	; Load COL onto 2 ships from group 1
S MAX 123	; Send the newly created group to planet 123

In the "Things to note:" section, just before the Fleet orders
section, this is talked about.  Anytime you actually specify the
number of ships involved, it splits those ships off from the original
group and puts them in a new group, picking the highest group number
available.  Hence the MAX naming.

>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.)

Well, if you have a programmable calculator, you can set up the
formula.  Its the classic distance between two points formula(in
ascii):

X1= 134.77	 Y1= 74.30	X2= 137.87	Y2=82.17

SQUARE ROOT( SQUARE(X1-X2) + SQUARE(Y1-Y2) )

The distance(rounded) is 8.46.

>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 couple of ship building guides avail from the Galaxy WWW
and FTP sites.

Good Luck!

References

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