Re: Another Galaxy Suggestion (Tech non-linear)

From: lewchuk@cs.UAlberta.CA (Michael Lewchuk)

Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:34:32 +0000

ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy) writes:
>I like the idea of non-linear tech growth, but perhaps it should be
>much more curved. If you are going to do it at all, do it right. (grin)
>Say.....  >Tech 1: 5000*1 >Tech 2: 5000*2 >Tech 3: 5000*3
>Or something like that. Thus, to gain tech 3, you'd need to spend 30K
>production on research... Maybe this is too steep, but it's more realistic.
>We went from from gound-based to airplanes in a short period of time, but
>it was a while before we hit jets, and another while before we hit
>space. It'll be a massive amount of time before man makes it to another
>star system. (grin)

You're forgetting one thing:
You're talking about exponential jumps in "power".  Galaxy is a linear
jump in "power".  Tech 2 ships are twice as powerful as tech 1 ships.
Thus there is no need to "scale".  By the way, we "hit space" in the 60s
and 70s and are now starting to exploit the potential of economic space
travel.

Galaxy does not allow "brilliant new advances" with technology, which
makes it differnt from many other games.  At tech 2 you get *no*
production bonuses, *no* technology add-ons (like newer weapons, newer
shielding).  It just multiplies the power of your craft.  There is no
need for exponential scaling since going from, say, tech 7 to 8 already
is much less an "accomplishment" than from 1 to 2.

Michael Lewchuk
					lewchuk@cs.UAlberta.CA

References

Re: Another Galaxy Suggestion (Tech non-linear)
ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy)
Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:24:14 +0000
Another Galaxy Suggestion
M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:21:24 +0000