New Blind Galaxy Game Starting

From: bampton@duncan.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I will be starting one Blind Galaxy game shortly (turn 0
reports will go out on the 8th of June, 1999).

See:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bampton/blind.html
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm.html
http://www.jacobean.demon.co.uk/gtrav.html

for details about what Blind Galaxy is, as well as the currently
released rules and source code.

This game will be using my newest code (2.48) with all the usual
options (K commands, Partial techs, password support).

It will have my typical double blind forwarding system and forecaster.

I will not be playing in the game.

This game will run two turns per week.

There will be about 20-35 players, I expect (I already have 10+
signed up), and 300-550 systems. The galaxy size will probably
be 200LY (depends upon the number of players).

New and experienced players are welcome.

Notes:

Blind Galaxy reports are different than most other galaxy variations.
Most tools won't like them without some modification. Goggle,
and GalaxyTV are known to not work
(http://members.home.net/salamon/galaxy.html has a mac client)

There will be no more than 3 players per site, 2 if the game has fewer
than 20 players (Exception: large ISP's such as Netcom might
be allowed to exceed this). There are obvious ways to get around this,
but please honor the spirit.

Turns run on Tuesdays and Fridays, around 8AM Eastern USA time. This
is 13:00 GMT for those more accustomed to that time
zone. (One turn per week games run on Friday only).

Games last at least a year, and run about 49-50 weeks out of the year
for 1 turn per week games (typically December 20th until
Janurary 3rd is taken off). Two turn per week games run 60+ turns per
year (more holidays; plus they typically slow down to 1 turn
per week around turn 40).

To sign up, please mail me (one player per message), your choice of
empire name, and an email @ to send reports to (if different
than the sending one).

For rules, sourcecode, tools, etc, please check:
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bampton/
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm.html

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