Re: Galaxy

From: jcho@nmsu.EDU (CHO)

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1993 23:18:03 +0000

In article <1993Mar1.115202.14978@infodev.cam.ac.uk> js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan) writes:

>I've come to the conclusion, after many (well a couple) hours o musing, that
>Galaxy suffers from the same feature prevalent in many Starspanning stragey games
>which is this - it is too hard to defend.  Now this gives the advantage to the
>attacker,which may be no bad thing, but means that in general the person who
>attacks first will win, and you are left to simply outguessing your opponents
>as to when that will be, as a war which is too evenly balanced will leave
>both of you crippled.

>   Comments?

Though I don't think the attacker has quite the advantage you describe.
I think an option to thwart the attacker is to have it so that if your
ships go to an enemy planet and is exterminated by the planetary defenses
on say the first exchange of shots...you don't get to see what was at
the planet and planetary info. :)

I guess if you were to have that...you might even want to incorporate
a retreat option. Allowing a ship to flee back to its origin after a
certain % of damage...

JCHO@nmsu.edu

References

Galaxy
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan)
Mon, 01 Mar 1993 11:52:02 +0000

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Galaxy
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan)
Mon, 01 Mar 1993 11:52:02 +0000