Re: Galaxy Coding question

From: finn@convex.com (Tom Finn)

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 18:59:56 +0000

bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) writes:

>turn (unloading captial goods before production doesn't help). I am not sure
>when population changes occur, but I would guess that the beginning population
>is used for calculating production.

I believe that population increase, and utilization of idle cap, occur
before calculating production.  I wouldn't swear to it though.

>Also the planet reports should be independent of the map. Since the planet
>reports are more important you need to map the whole galaxy. This makes the
>map itself hard to use for close in stuff. The planet naming feature also
>causes problems for the gms. If people want to be really obnoxious they can
>swap names of their planets to get enemy ships to go to the wrong place.

The planet naming feature has been fixed, but it requires a change in data
structures so won't be added to games in progress.  The fix I wrote allows
you to send groups to either the name of the planet or it's original number
from the start of the game.

tom

References

Galaxy Coding question
vic@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Glenn Dickins)
Wed, 24 Jun 1992 16:24:29 +0000
Re: Galaxy Coding question
bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Wed, 24 Jun 1992 18:41:46 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy Coding question
vic@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Glenn Dickins)
Wed, 24 Jun 1992 16:24:29 +0000
Re: Galaxy Coding question
bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Wed, 24 Jun 1992 18:41:46 +0000