Re: Galaxy help needed

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

Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:35:27 +0000

Greg Lindahl <gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU> writes:
> The only thing you gain is more planets to grow on, and you also seize
> the initiative to help make sure that combat happens over their
> planets, not yours. A game populated with only desJardins would
> eventually go non-linear because everyone would develop all their
> planets, and go looking for more.

I have no idea what "non-linear" means in this context.  It is certainly
true in all the Galaxy game I know about that players come into conflict
when they run out of room on their own planets for further expansion.
As previously noted, the game is designed so there is not much reason to
attack except in order to gain space.  If the players didn't eventually
run out of space, the game would probably never terminate.

The point at which this happens definitely varies.  Of course, it
certainly does depend on how hard the players strive to maximize growth.
But it depends even more on the version of the rules: growth is
relatively slow in Galaxy version 2.X, faster in Galaxy version 3.X, and
faster yet in Blind Galaxy.  Also, the games with faster growth reduce
the cost of full industrialization, so the point at which one can afford
to build attack fleets without significantly harming growth comes much
earlier.

David desJardins

References

Re: Galaxy help needed
saschreu@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA)
Fri, 15 Jan 1993 13:12:16 +0000
Re: Galaxy help needed
mckinney@cs.utexas.edu (Durwood Y. McKinney)
Fri, 15 Jan 1993 15:37:02 +0000
Re: Galaxy help needed
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Sat, 16 Jan 1993 22:12:28 +0000
Re: Galaxy help needed
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 16 Jan 1993 23:51:26 +0000