Re: Galaxy idea - capturing planets

From: markhof@ls12r.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ingolf Markhof)

Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 08:47:35 +0000

In article <1992Jul13.234541.26705@uwm.edu>, bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) writes:
|>
|> Before considering things that will change the nature of the game, there are
|> some things that could be done to make the game more playable as it is now.
|>
|> You should always get the planet reports for all planets not just the ones
|> in your map area.
|> To go along with this it would be nice to ask for several maps in a turn,
|> though this may cause problems for mail.

It's true that the kind in which information is given by the results is not very
useful to support your playing. Of course you can request some changes as you did.
Another useful change would be to change the ordering of information. For
example, it would be better to get all information about groups together with
the data of the related planet. And, instead of distributing information about
the type and technology of ships, it would be better just to present the effective
drive-weapon-shield-cargo values in the group information. And, and, and...
There are so many enhancements...

But in fact, the results give you all the information. So a way to achieve what
you want is to pipe the results to some "postprocessor", which collects all the
information and prints it in a more useful format. This is what I did. Or better:
What I'm currently doing. For my opinion, it's useless to ask for more than one
map in the results. The map is the results without any labels is almost useless!
Therefore, I orders the full information about the whole galaxy each turn. From
that data, my postprocessor is able the create labeled postscript maps of any
clipping area of the galaxy. Moreover, you can use a verbose option which will
print many usefull data nearby each planet (Size, ressources, population,
industries, IP/turn left for production after production of COL's, maximum ship
mass production/turn, ships at or incoming to the planet).

I will make the software available once it will be finished.

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References

Galaxy idea - capturing planets
jerry@uni-paderborn.de (Gerald Siek)
Sat, 11 Jul 1992 09:26:59 +0000
Re: Galaxy idea - capturing planets
bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 23:45:41 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy idea - capturing planets
jerry@uni-paderborn.de (Gerald Siek)
Sat, 11 Jul 1992 09:26:59 +0000
Re: Galaxy idea - capturing planets
bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 23:45:41 +0000