Re: Galaxy - Starting questions

From: desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 04:32:42 +0000

David Michael Kass <dkass@cco.caltech.edu> writes:
> In Galaxy, can a planet produce more than one thing at a time (ie can it
> research drive tech and build some ships)?

No.

> Should you build ships right away, do some research or what?

It depends if you are going to be attacked.  :-)

If two of your neighbors decide to attack you jointly, and they are
reasonably close, and they know what they are doing, and you don't build
defenses on both of the first two turns, you will be out of the game.

But most people are not this conservative.  (Seriously, if there were a
"right" answer, it wouldn't be much of a game.)  Most people build some
defenses on one of the first two turns, so they at least can't be nuked
by just a mass 2 ship, and some transports, so they can explore nearby
planets and colonize them.

Eventually you want to firm up your homeworld defenses (for which you
need at least two turns and probably three turns of production), churn
out a bunch of transport ships, and start making capital and shipping it
to appropriate nearby worlds.

Research should wait several turns in most circumstances.

> A more technical question.  What level of precision does the program use?
> (ie where does it round/truncate?).

Everything is stored to machine precision, even though numbers are only
output to two decimal places.  You can enter ship designs with a larger
number of decimal places if you wish, but they will be rounded to two
decimal places when printed on your report (so it may be hard to
remember exactly what they were).

Some quantities (X and Y coordinates of planets, and planet sizes, but
NOT planet resource values) are always a multiple of 0.01, so the value
on your turn is the exact value.

David desJardins

References

Galaxy - Starting questions
dkass@cco.caltech.edu (David Michael Kass)
Tue, 30 Mar 1993 00:32:19 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy - Starting questions
dkass@cco.caltech.edu (David Michael Kass)
Tue, 30 Mar 1993 00:32:19 +0000