Galaxy Results Format

From: Luis Miguel Sequeira <bc@fccn01.fccn.pt>

Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 07:20:33 +0000

Alan Mead writes:

>Typically these discussions "degenerate" into debates about "what is
>realistic" (which always seems to me to be beside the point) but...  I
>think this would be more realistic in the sense that worlds and solar
>systems are big!  Do you think that you could find, catch and destroy a
>fleet of 500+ ships scattered throughout the solar system in one year?

You're right! I'm thinking about GDW's  Traveller, MegaTraveller, 2300
AD and Star Cruiser games (the last one being a board game).  On these
games, if a starship, however big, submerges under a  large ocean at a
planet, it  is virtually impossible to find  it. But on the same game,
sensors have a  very *long* range; you can  detect a golf ball on  the
Moon from the Earth, or  scan Venus from Mars...  so ships are easy to
detect if they aren't cleverly hidden.

Well, as  we haven't seen a lot  of starships jumping around  in 1993,
there is  no  way to predict  *reallistically*  how things  are really
going to be...

However, I still would welcome additions to Galaxy (even if  I _don't_
master the game  just with  the actual 3.30  rules...).  I hate static
games, ie.,  those without evolutions...  so good work out  there, and
let me know about it! :-)

- Luis Sequeira, Lazyness Prime & Fanatical Gamer

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References

Re: Galaxy Results Format
mckinney@cs.utexas.edu (Durwood Y. McKinney)
Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:55:57 +0000
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