Re: Galaxy

From: sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA)

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 08:07:36 +0000

In article <1993Oct11.121515.3722@infodev.cam.ac.uk> js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan) writes:
>In article <CEqDrG.7yC@cs.vu.nl>, sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA) writes:
>> This turn, R. Wallace, GM of Galaxy game 7, announced in the turn 103 report:
>> >Message from the GM:
>> >
>> >In view of the current apparently stable balance of power, it seems advisable
>> >to set a deadline for the end of the game.  Therefore, I hereby declare that if
>> >the game has not ended before then, the player with the highest industry on
>> >turn 125 will be declared the winner.  (Note: Single player, not alliance.)
>> >
>> >- Russell
>
>I'd just like to point out that I'm totally against this kind of random
>rule-changing in the middle of a game.  Not that its likely
>to affect me (nor did it much in the last game in which the rules
>were changed under my feet) but thats not the point.
>
>If the remaining players want a 7-way draw, why shouldn't they have one?

I'm almost sure we were not heading for a 7-way draw, but at this moment,
too many players were inactive, and we were just "recycling" their planets
rather than attack each other. (They had more than 100 planets total)
The "problem" is/was that there are three large empires, so when
one of them attacks, the other two will take advantage of it. It could
have become very interesting when the inactive players would be almost gone:
who would launch a first strike, and who will help whom?

With respect to my strategy for the last X turns: I used to be the largest
empire for almost the whole game, and I have the largest potential.
So my tactic was: expand and wait. I could only become more powerfull
by waiting. I'm almost sure Naturals and Valhallas thought the same,
and the other players couldn't afford to risk war against one of those
three empires. So I would describe the situation as "Silence before the storm"
(As it is said in Dutch).

With this new situation, I'm almost sure I won't win: I'm the largest empire,
so anyone who wants to win, has to assure I won't be ahead of him.
So I expect to be the prime target of all surviving players. :-(
IMO, one of the smaller players will win, because the largest players will
assure none of them will win. In dutch we've a saying:
"When two dogs are fighting over a bone, the third one will take it."

>Scottish Premier  [No I'm not counting myself as a possible drawee]

Zwagonian

References

Galaxy
sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA)
Mon, 11 Oct 1993 11:40:27 +0000
Re: Galaxy
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan)
Mon, 11 Oct 1993 12:15:15 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy
sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA)
Mon, 11 Oct 1993 11:40:27 +0000
Re: Galaxy
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan)
Mon, 11 Oct 1993 12:15:15 +0000