Re: Galaxy: A modified battle algorithm

From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead)

Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 17:41:47 +0000

andre@duteinq.et.tudelft.nl (Andre Verwey) writes:

>If the hard limit on the number of battlerounds if for example set on
>10, a fight can end undecided. This gives the defending player the time
>to add new products on a planet, or fly away with the remaining fleet.

>How do other people think about such a change?

I like it :)  Notice that you would also have to modify the rules
(code) so that "left over" combatants wouldn't bomb.  Ie, currently,
any hostile ships alive after combat will bomb.

Also, *I* think the limit should depend on the number of ships.  If
there are two ships, they should get, maybe 2 shots (that is, 2 shots
get fired, not each ships gets two shots).  If is one warship and 100
drones, there should be, maybe 50-100 shots.  But if there are 100
armed scouts on each side then I think there should only 200 shots
(which wouldn't suffice for the two fleets to kill each other--at tech
1.0, [1 1 1 1 0] ships have something like a 20% chence(?) of killing
an identical ship).

I also agree that this limit seems like it would be really easy to code.
My C is pretty shakey.  I cannot make Galaxy 3.3 compile let alone alter
it :(

-alan

References

Galaxy: A modified battle algorithm
andre@duteinq.et.tudelft.nl (Andre Verwey)
Fri, 01 Jan 1993 21:09:55 +0000