Re: Galaxy Option Requested

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:54:03 +0000

>Brian Sutin <sutin@helios.ucsc.edu> writes:
>> O AutoUnload
>> which when set would cause groups carrying cargo to automatically unload
>> cargo upon arrival at a planet owned by the player regardless of the
>> existence of a route.

In rec.games.pbm, desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins) writes:
>Why not have it work at uninhabited planets, if the cargo is colonists?
>Same justification: it would eliminate all of these bogus routes I now use.

Here are some more ideas on this subjec:

Allow an optional U keyword at the end of send commands that would
make the group auto-unload when it arrived.  Something like:

S group planet [ number ] [ U ]

Or modify the concept of routes to allow a value of U to mean unload
this type of cargo (instead of shipping it somewhere).  This:

R The_Garden CAP U

Would mean auto-unload any ship carrying cap that shows up at that
planet.  This is what I normally want, but it wouldn't solve the
problem of colonizing new planets.

But this also isn't as much of a problem now that the order of things
have been changed.  In older versions of galaxy, unloading at the
end of routes took place before production.  Which meant that using
fake routes from other planets to foce an auto-unload gave you a
one-turn advantage.  On newer versions of Galaxy, unloading takes place
after production, so using a route is now the same thing as using a
U command on the next turn.  So routes are no longer required to
maximise your production, they are just a convenence feature.

Curt

References

Galaxy Option Requested
sutin@helios.ucsc.edu (Brian Sutin)
Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:09:50 +0000
Re: Galaxy Option Requested
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:31:14 +0000