--New GalaxyNG Release--

From: Frans Gumpu Slothouber <gumpu@Wit393403.student.utwente.nl>

Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,

There is a new release of GalaxyNG, it can be downloaded from
http://gumpu.student.utwente.nl/~galaxyng/download.html

What's New:
===========

release 3-2:

o Install script.
  There is an install script that makes installing GalaxyNG
  a lot easier. It automatically customizes the galaxy scripts
  to suit your system.

o Changes to the rules.
  1) It is now possible to call back ships (only if they take more
     than 4 turns to reach their destination).
  2) Cargo technology grows twice as fast as the other technologies.

o Orders forecast
  The orders forecast now includes a 'status of the nation' section,
  showing the pop, ind, and tech levels.

o Report
  There are two new turn report types.
  1) Machine report (by Christophe Barbier), this is a machine
     readable version of the report, and should make it easier
     to create galaxy tools
  2) G+ reports. This is the report format used by the Russian
     variant of galaxy (G+)

o Galaxy shape.
  There is a new circular type of galaxy. Instead of all planets being
  scattered around the galaxy, all planets are located on a big ring /
  donut. (By Tommy Lindqvist)

o More documentation.

o Inactive players.
  In the first 10 turns players are only allowed to miss 2 turns,
  after turn 10 they are allowed to miss 5 turns.  If a player misses
  2 turns in the first 10 turns, it empire is completely
  removed. After the 10 turn limit the empire continues to exists
  however. And without a leader it will be an easy prey for other
  nations to feast on.

o WEB Tools
  Included is a program that you can use to create graphs of
  the economic situation of all the players
  (see http://gumpu.student.utwente.nl/~galaxyng/games.html)

GalaxyNG is a very addictive play-by-email war game for mutliple players
created by:
   Galaxy NG Code
      Frans Slothouber
      Christophe Barbier
      Jacco van Weert
      Tommy Lindqvist
      Rogerio Fung
  Original Version of Galaxy
      Russell Wallace
      Tim Myers
      Robert Stone
      Mayan Moudgill
      Graeme Griffiths
      K Pankhurst

For info on how to host a game have a look at
http://gumpu.student.utwente.nl/~galaxyng/hosting.html

I am also in the process of upgrading the GalaxyNG web site...
http://gumpu.student.utwente.nl/~galaxyng/index.html

Have Fun,
Frans Slothouber

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/   \/
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