Re: New to PBMs: Galaxy

From: chandler@cadlab.de (Martin R. Grote)

Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 18:51:28 +0000

In article <3iblcr$sej@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, sdfyfe@aol.com (SDFyfe) writes:
|> I would be interested in joining a PBM game but I don't know what people
|> are playing.  Can somebody give me some general info on what's out there?
|> :-)

Hello!

I'm starting Galaxy Nirvana rightaway. It is an interstellar strategy game.

A Galaxy is built in the beginning, with planets of different sizes. All are
uninhabited except that each player gets a fully populated and industrialized
home planet in the beginning, with the maximum size 1000.

Then, anyone can design ships from attributes drive, attack number, weapon
strength, shield strength and cargo capacity. This gives room for many types
whatever you want, e.g. ones with no drive to defend planets or ones with one
drive unit only, simply to spy on other planets. The more attributes you give,
the more powerful, slower, weaker in shields and more expensive to build it
gets of course. Each planet can build a fixed mass.

You can develop your technology otherwise, which will give you better ships
from then on (but you can't build ships on the same planet the same turn).

You can negotiate with other players (races/nations) and declare war or peace
on them. In the end, only one can survive.

Ok if you're interested, be quick. The game is intended for beginners only,
and will start Friday Mar 3 i suppose, with the deadline for the first orders
expiring Tuesday Mar 7. I can possibly extend it on request though.

Or maybe you can take over a free slot after 1-2 turns, i'll make the first
move and build a homedef or so in advance.

Assume to spend some 1-2 hours on your orders minimum though
(you can do quicker but will lose never spending some time on your orders.
 However that won't happen :)

The docs are on WWW/Mosaic:   http://www.abekrd.co.uk/Galaxy/
Or drop me a note.

Yours, Martin
chandler@cadlab.de

P.S. Don't let the docs worry you, in the beginning you've got to simply design
     one ship type and go build it.
     The game is intended for beginners only, so it was not publicly announced
     and i'm afraid you'll probably not get into the official worldwide Galaxy
     Hall of Fame (see the WWW Galaxy page).