Re: Galaxy idea - maping (was capturing planets)

From: rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)

Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 11:04:31 +0000

In <1992Jul14.034604.10034@cbfsb.cb.att.com> skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta) writes:

>bampton@cs.utk.edu (Howard J. Bampton) writes:
>> [Russell, if noone liked the game, we wouldn't be trying to pick it
>> apart (:-) please take my comments in that light.]

>No one says that about Olympia! (sniff, sniff).

*I* keep saying it about Olympia in my messages slagging off the
excessive complexity! :-)

Multiple maps in Galaxy: unfortunately this would increase the outgoing
mail bandwidth, which is something I'm trying to reduce. You can get
different maps on successive turns.

Showing the data for all planets all the time: What about the poor sod
who can't run any programs like PLOT on the results and has to look at a
printout, who starts off Galaxy Game 6 and gets a list of 600 planets
all the time, and hasn't a hope in hell of finding his neighbouring
planets among the list? Most of his colony ships then end up spending 2
centuries drifting halfway across the galaxy. At least with the current
system you can restrict the list to the planets you're interested in.

Simplifying the shields calculation: how?

Putting the list of groups after each planet description: this is a
matter of opinion, I personally find such a description format very
irritating in the games I play that have it. However, it is quite easy
to sort the list of your groups by planet name, and the list of planets
by planet name, and look at them side by side.

--
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie

References

Galaxy idea - maping (was capturing planets)
bampton@cs.utk.edu (Howard J. Bampton)
Tue, 14 Jul 1992 02:40:15 +0000
Re: Galaxy idea - maping (was capturing planets)
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 14 Jul 1992 03:46:04 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy idea - maping (was capturing planets)
bampton@cs.utk.edu (Howard J. Bampton)
Tue, 14 Jul 1992 02:40:15 +0000
Re: Galaxy idea - maping (was capturing planets)
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 14 Jul 1992 03:46:04 +0000