Re: Galaxy transporter design

From: ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy)

Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:17:18 +0000

I haven't played in Galaxy much recently, but I always use a

Teleport 1 0 0 0 1

for cargo shiping. The reasons I choose this (Maybe everyone who
uses this design feels the same way, don't know, never discussed it. :)
is that you get the maximum speed per cargo point, you can easily
spread your ships out, and you never "waste" space. For example,
if all your cargo ships carry 100 units, and only 1 needs to be
transported, you are wasting 99 units of transportation. If you had
an array of 100 ships with 1 cargo space, only one would be
sent, and 99 would do other things. Also, 99 ships makes great inexpensive
fodder for combat. (Not as nicely as a 0 0 0 1 0 but what is?)

I think if a change in cargo ships was made it should be to make it
non-linear. Some sort of curve, where 10 costs only 7 times 1, and 100
costs only 5 times 10. SOmething like that. (I'm just pulling numbes out of the
air.) The more cargo units you have, the less they cost. Perfect example:

1 cubic foot of space in a cardboard box. The box is made of 9 sq. feet.

2 cubic foot of space in cardboard box. The box is made of 16 sq. feet.

As you can see, from a simple cost-of-cardboard standpoint, the
larger box is cheaper. 1 100 cubic foot box should cost alot less than
100 1 cubic foot boxes...

See the rational?

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I'd also like cargo ships to be able to carry different items, and
a 200 cargo space ship able to carry a 200 mass ship as a sort of
"hanger".) This way a large, massive shiop could carry hordes of smaller
ships into combat. (Sort of a battlestar galactica idea.) This would
change combat, for the better I think. Now you'd be able to build a massively
huge
battleship, and load it up with a large number of smaller fighters (with 0
drive). The fighters wouldn't have hyperdrive ability, but the carrier
would...

Enough rambling for now. I don't want you to fall asleep. (grin)

References

Re: Galaxy transporter design
finn@convex.com (Tom Finn)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:19:29 +0000
Re: Galaxy transporter design
bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:40:49 +0000