Re: Galaxy mapping question

From: sjmur2@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr SJ Murphy)

Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 00:20:28 +0000

ajmor5@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Morrissey) writes:

>G'day all.

>    I was hoping that someone could send me a program that would help
>    map planets in the pbem game Galaxy. If theres a program that
>    would read in the results sheet and produce a map and calculate
>    the closest planets, or all the planets within a certain range,
>    then that would be great. But any help would be good help at this
>    stage. At the moment, I'm just keeping my ships at the few
>    planets I've gotten and just holding them there till I find out
>    which planets are nearby those planets.

>    Thanks.

>    Andrew Morrissey.

Hi guys (and girls),
	There is a program called 'XGalaxy' being worked upon, find it
in the tools directory at utk.cs.edu under bampton I think. (I found it
buggy though).
	By far the easiest method is to trim your turn file to just
the 'Unknown Planets' list, ie.
planet	X	Y
51	0.31	5.43
102	3.45	56.23
...

Now import this into a spreadsheet, calculate a column
DIST=SQRT(X^2+Y^2) and sort by DIST.
Then do an XY plot, with the symbol sizes proportional to SIZE, when you
find them. In my first turn I always built 99 drones and send them to
the 99 closest worlds in this way, then print a pretty map
on my PC - real easy to find the nicest worlds to take !

If you are really eager, you can define columns in your spreadsheet
to estimate a planet's productive capacity, based on SIZE and RESOURCE.

Good galaxing all.
Steve Murphy

References

Galaxy mapping question
ajmor5@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Morrissey)
Wed, 31 Aug 1994 03:27:14 +0000

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Galaxy mapping question
ajmor5@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Morrissey)
Wed, 31 Aug 1994 03:27:14 +0000