Re: GALAXY Help

From: bjones@retzlaff.tmc.edu (Brian Jones)

Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3lapqa$vqr@noc.tor.hookup.net>,
John Fairley <jfairley@hookup.net> wrote:
>
>   Hey there,
>
>       I'm totally new to galaxy and I'm currently playing in a game,
>but wondering what's going on (yes, I have the rules).  My question is,
>just what do I do to build ships?  What will ??? part of my turn report
>look like when I have ships, e.g.
>
>If I had :   P xx CAP
>             P xx Freighter
>             P xx MAT
>
>on my turn report it tells me I'm only producing MAT.  Can you only
>produce ONE of these catagories a turn?  I have noticed that some
>people have quite a number of ships.

Yes, you can only produce 1 type of thing per planet per turn.
fortunately, when you produce a ship, the MAT for it is produced
automagically, so there is seldom (though occaisional I suppose) any
reason to produce MAT. From your post I can't tell if you have designed
a Frieghter or are just assuming the design is built in. I'm fairly
certain that it is not, and the ship has to be designed first.

Heres a turn from a game I'm in. (an old turn, as I no longer am too
keen on the idea of multi-turn ships)

And I've changed the names to protect the guilty.

#GALAXY Guru spam_hammers
D BigMoFo 120 1 25 251 0
P Home BigMoFo
D Swan 1 0 0 2.3 0
P 332 Swan
R Home COL 293
R 239 EMP Home
P 239 CAP
S 11 450 1
S 11 531 1
S 11 5 1
S 11 158 1
S 11 394
S 5 394
L 15 CAP
S 15 389
B 13 10
L MAX CAP
S MAX 239
S 26 439
#END

Note that The BigMoFo will take 4 turns to produce just one, and the
ship will have a total mass of 396. Remember, if you don't have spare
MAT lying around, which is usually the case, the max mass of shipping
you can produce in one turn is  Industry/(10 + 1/resource). For a
homeworld this translates too 1000/(10 + 1/10) = 99.00990099.... This
explains why so many ships have mass 99 or some divisor of 99. Note
above, mass BigMoFo = 4*99, Mass Swan = 99/30.

BTW if you are playing Galaxy (not Blind) I heartily recommend you
download a copy of goggle from cs.utk.edu /pub/bampton/tools via ftp

>
>  Please help..         jF

Hope this helps..

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References

GALAXY Help
jfairley@hookup.net (John Fairley)
Wed, 29 Mar 1995 05:05:14 +0000