Re: multiple products per planet should be realistically possible

From: kjp@cvcgfcv.ic.ac.uk (Mr K.J. Pankhurst)

Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:16:38 +0000

In article <1gqbsqINNt1j@crcnis1.unl.edu>, tmyers@unlinfo.unl.edu (tim myers) writes:
|> I'm running a small galaxy game within our campus. The main question/complaint
|> I have gotten is that you can only produce one thing per turn per planet. This
|> is a reasonable rule but it is not correct. The upgrade ships command uses
|> production points BEFORE production takes place. So, somewhere the used/total
|> production points is kept rather than being calculated just before production
|> takes place.
|>
|> The idea would be to add a quantity parameter to the end of the produce
|> command, and allow multiple produce commands per planet. Leaving off the
|> quantity parameter would behave as it does now.
...
I do not approve of doing this. It complicates the game too much. I would like
to know how you propose what production at a planet you are going to stop making
when you bring in a new type of production. e.g.

say you have a planet with 1000 industry. 700 is going into building a ship
and 300 into drive research. The you decide you want to have 500 in weapon
research leaving 300 into building the ship and 200 into drive research. How
will tell the program that you want this? Are you going to have to specify
all the productions at a planet when you change the production type. How
are you going to show this split of production on the turnsheet?

I am for making minor changes in the code, but I don't think this is feasible.
I am sure Russell Wallace has already looked into this and probably considered
it unreasonable for a similar reason.

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|> Toli the Curious, Shire of Mag Mor, Kingdom of Calontir
|> Tim Myers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
|> tmyers@unlinfo.unl.edu

Kev Pankhurst
gwars Alpha & Beta GM

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References

multiple products per planet should be realistically possible
tmyers@unlinfo.unl.edu (tim myers)
Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:03:22 +0000