Re: [Galaxy] Newbie Stuff

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

Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:30:48 +0000

[posted and mailed]

> > > 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
>
> Quite an informative website - thanks

No problems. Just noted that Steve (badcheese.com) has two
new games forming:
http://www.badcheese.com/~steve/pbm.shtml
He also is supposedly running a very large game - you could
cehck for dropped positions. Likewise with Fran, who runs
the pbem.net site - he's got several games on at
present that might need replacements.
>
> > 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.
>
> Didn't know there was an East vs West war going on.

Only when it was found that they had a fairly massive Galaxy
playing habit, so we challenged them in Tiger 1 and 2. As I
said, we got caned - they have better communications between
players, a greater history of in game cooperation for specific
purposes, a lot more diplomacy, and thus usually better team
tactics.
> >
> > 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...

He posted a call for a new game that would be only two weeks
old - you could check with him re droputs as well:
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bampton/newgames.html
>
> Why can't all newgroup responses be this helpful.  The guy took the time
> to email and post (and try an beat the spam trap).  Gave an excellent
> set of statements regarding my extreamly limited knowledge in this subject
> (except for playing It's A Crime with British company KJC Games some
> 12 years ago).

And people saying thank you like this make the effort worthwhile.
It also helps that I'm a bit of a Galaxy nut.... :-)

Cheers

Webko

References

Re: [Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:30:05 +0000
Re: [Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
"Andy Jenkins" <newsNOgroup@ntlworldSPAM.com>
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
[Galaxy] Newbie Stuff
"Andy Jenkins" <newsNOgroup@ntlworldSPAM.com>
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000