Re: [Galaxy] Newbie Stuff

From: Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au>

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:30:05 +0000

[posted and mailed - hope I beat the spam trap]

Andy Jenkins wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to play Galaxy.
>
> AFAIK there are many versions of Galaxy.  So - which tends to be the
> most "professional" free version (arn't they all free?)

The most common version in 'Western' countries at present is GalaxyNG
http://galaxy.pbem.net/index2.html

The 'Russian' countries play a slightly different version (name
escapes me, Andrei??) and they are fairly fullon about it -
we've played them twice in team games, and got our asses
soundly kicked both times.

The original Galaxy (up to V3.51) is still played in a couple
of places.

Then there's Blind Galaxy - I believe Howard Bampton has a
game of this about to get under way. Most of the normal
analysis tools have problems with this version, as it doesn't
tell you about all the planets, and the map wraps, unlike
other versions...

There was also a Web based implementation a while back, but
I haven'tr heard anything of it recently.

So, probably the most common for your purposes will be
GalaxyNG. I'm not aware of any new games starting in the
near future, but I may be wrong...

Cheers

Webko

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[Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
"Andy Jenkins" <newsNOgroup@ntlworldSPAM.com>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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[Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
"Andy Jenkins" <newsNOgroup@ntlworldSPAM.com>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000