Re: Galaxy vs VGA Planets

From: rnovak@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Novak)

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 16:20:13 +0000

thecat@felix.nervous.com (Roberto Nucci) writes:

>I play and host VGA Planets game, but don't know anything about Galaxy... Can
>someone make a comparison ?

Galaxy is text-based and requires no client program, for starters. From
what I recall of VGA Planets, you have a binary client which is machine
specific to a MS-DOS compatible PC, which is used to handle the graphic
representation of the turn files. Galaxy can be played from any machine
that can create and send Internet email (or theoretically, fidonet email
or any other network's email).

There is probably a lot less initial detail in Galaxy. The strategy can
get very thick later in the game, but it starts out pretty simple. I
can't go into much more comparative detail, since I had VGA Planets on my
system for about half an hour and have been playing and hosting Galaxy
for nearly a year with as many as 19 games in the process. Hope this
helps a little bit.

If you want to look at the Galaxy rules, email rnovak@nyx.cs.du.edu with
subject "sendme galaxy docs" and my server will mail them back to you.

Rob

References

Galaxy vs VGA Planets
thecat@felix.nervous.com (Roberto Nucci)
Wed, 29 Dec 1993 11:49:36 +0000

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Galaxy vs VGA Planets
thecat@felix.nervous.com (Roberto Nucci)
Wed, 29 Dec 1993 11:49:36 +0000