Re: Galaxy Results Format

From: mckinney@cs.utexas.edu (Durwood Y. McKinney)

Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:55:57 +0000

Someone wrote.....
>
>>But the problem (or just the fact) with Galaxy is that once you loose
>>a big fight, you're pretty much out of the game.  There's no real way to
>>start over and come back later and win.  One (major) mistake and you're
>>dead.  Once you get too far behind in industry you can never catch up.
>>
>>It might be interesting to try and modify the game so palyers were a
>>lot harder to knock out of the game.  Where you could loose more
>>battles but not loose the war.  Then the concept of having longer
>>games would make more sense.
>

You could accomplish this by introducing the concepts of armies.  People
could build armies on their own worlds (this would require both population
and resources).  an attacker would have to destroy these armies (either
through planetary bombardment, which should be an incremental process save
in circumstances of overwhelming force, or by landing colonists on the
planet which would have it out with these armies.  You could also have an
"army tech" tech level which would make your armies better at defending
the planet.  It would be much harder to take enemy worlds because you
would need to be able to destroy their ground forces and this might take
enough time to allow them to counterattack against your fleet.

Another simple way to do this would be to simply change the rules where
an armed enemy warship has to be orbiting a planet at the end of two
consecutive turns to bomb it.  This would make it easier to defend a
large empire.

Both these options would have the side effect of making galaxy a much longer
game.

Ken
.

:wq

References

Galaxy Results Format
bc@fccn01.fccn.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira)
Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:41:22 +0000
Re: Galaxy Results Format
bc@fccn01.fccn.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira)
Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:00:49 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy Results Format
bc@fccn01.fccn.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira)
Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:41:22 +0000
Re: Galaxy Results Format
bc@fccn01.fccn.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira)
Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:00:49 +0000