Re: Improved Galaxy order syntax?

From: Hel, Queen of LogeSpawn, at Hel

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 01:07:38 +0000

[Someone and someone else:]
>>I suggest that the syntax of the Galaxy orders is modified so that all planet
>>names needed in the orders (quite a lot), MAY be replaced by the planets
>>coordinates. F.ex.

>Why should I care what my neighbors want to name a planet? Why should
>my orders fail because my neighbors renamed a planet and I didn't
>notice?

Well, in "real life", if there be an intergalactic war, I suspect that HQ's
of each race would not even KNOW what other races named their planets......

>Now, calling the planet by its coordinates is a bit ugly, and likely
>to cause even more careless errors. But always being able to refer to
>a planet by its original name might be nice.

This is true, however, there are MUCh more important things that galaxy can
use patching on, for example, the trap that a Production cycle will not use
ALL the available material before producing anew can be edited out;
another problem is that in LOAD commands, although possibly not in Routing,
a player should be able to direct HOW MUCH stuff s/he wants to load on
board.  Many a time during my BRIEF career I  had to build new ships and
delay shipment when all I needed was to load a ship to only 73% its
capacity if that had been possible;  I have also found that renamed planets
are far more of a bother when one is trying to figure out where that stupid
1-0-0-0-0 spy came in from (so appropriate punishment can be meted out :-).
I am not kidding with the last point, btw. since I discovered that I am far
from the only one to be infuriated by those probes.

I would probably enjoy one of those variant games that you folx mentioned,
however.... I wonder if there can't be a Judge like there is or PbeM diplomacy.

References

Improved Galaxy order syntax?
schei@Siri.Unit.NO (Lars Schei)
Thu, 26 Nov 1992 19:29:54 +0000
Re: Improved Galaxy order syntax?
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Thu, 26 Nov 1992 22:07:40 +0000

Referenced By

Improved Galaxy order syntax?
schei@Siri.Unit.NO (Lars Schei)
Thu, 26 Nov 1992 19:29:54 +0000
Re: Improved Galaxy order syntax?
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Thu, 26 Nov 1992 22:07:40 +0000