Re: Galaxy - Making space-craft carriers and a map comment

From: "J.C. Elliott" <jce@icon.net>

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Why would you want to carry a ship...??? Why not just give it drives, even
if slow and move it on its own power...???

J.C.

danielt3@gte.net wrote in message <6voi53$eu3$1@news-1.news.gte.net>...
>I was wondering what people thought would be a good way to make
>space-craft carriers. Namely, should the cargo cap of the carrier be used
>to carry the system ship? If so, how many cargo points should be used per
>size point of the carried ship?
>
>Also, an earlier question about the game prompted me to wonder about the
>best kind of universe. Seems to me that a square is a bad idea because you
>end up with edges. Attaching the edges makes the map into a sort of torus
>(not quite because the inside is the same diameter as the outside but
>close enough.) This kind of "ring" formation is tantamount to making the
>galaxy one-dimensional IMO.
>
>Has anyone tried making the galaxy on the surface of a sphere? I have an
>algorithm but no code...
>
>--
>Daniel T.
>danielt3@gte.net
>http://home1.gte.net/danielt3/

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Galaxy - Making space-craft carriers and a map comment
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Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000