Re: New Galaxy Idea

From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1993 20:16:10 +0000

In rec.games.pbm, peiper@athena.cs.uga.edu (Garfield) writes:
>        I had a new idae for Galaxy. I am sure most of you have noticed
>how NOONE except by accident *poke John* researches Cargo tech.

>3.3 rules have made a step in the right direction by making cargo tech
>reduce cargo weight by half. I would propose a more drastic step,

>I would propose that you allow Cargo tech to increase the cargoability
>by a factoir of 2, and that you reduce the cargo weight to 1/4.

I have an idea that I like better.  Just reduce the cargo weight to 0.
This makes everything much simpler.

The amount of cargo a ship can hold should be the cargo research times
the cargo size.

The mass of a ship should be the same as it is now for an unloaded cargo
ship.

With the current rules, doing Drive research speeds up your ships (when
you build new ships of the same size as old ships that is.)  But it doesn't
change the effect of the shields, it doesn't change the strength of your
guns, and it doesn't change the amount of cargo the ship can hold.

Same thing happens with shields and weapons.  Increasing research with these
doesn't affect the other factors.

But this isn't so with cargo reserach.  Doing cargo research reduces
the speed of a loaded ship, and it reduces the shield strength of a
loaded ship.  Because of this, it's usually wiser not to do cargo
reserach.  You get better results by doing drive reserach.

But if cargo isn't counted as part of the weight of the ship - then all
these problems go away.

This means that an empty or fully loaded ship travels the same speed.  It
means that doing cargo research won't slow down your ships, or won't reduce
their shields.

Curt

References

New Galaxy Idea
peiper@athena.cs.uga.edu (Garfield)
Mon, 08 Feb 1993 16:39:22 +0000

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New Galaxy Idea
peiper@athena.cs.uga.edu (Garfield)
Mon, 08 Feb 1993 16:39:22 +0000