Re: [Galaxy] Gunboat games?

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

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000

In article <vohemtglufm.fsf@bosco.berkeley.edu> David desJardins <david@desjardins.org> writes:
>David Michael Kass <dkass@cco.caltech.edu> writes:
>> After thinking about it, I realized that Galaxy might be particularly
>> well suited to such games since 1) the game itself doesn't require
>> diplomacy (unlike say Phoenix); and 2) there would only need to be
>> minor modifications to the game itself.
>
>There have in fact been several games of Blind Galaxy.  You can probably
>find discussions of that variant in Deja News or on the web.  My
>experience in such games was that it was hard to keep up one's
>enthusiasm for the game.  The lack of diplomacy means that it basically
>degenerates into one-on-one battles, with players trying to keep their
>heads down (after all, if everyone else fights while you grow, that's
>good for you), and then getting drawn into individual conflicts.

Um, Blind Gaalxy doesn't have the Gunboat characteristics mentioned
above. It doesn't allow global broadcasts, but 1 to 1 or 1 to n via a
double blind forwarding system has been in the game for quite some time,
if not since the first non beta game.

This isn't to say that it couldn't be done with some fairly
doable changes to the code.

Explorer would be a far better choice though as a starting point, as
it already has a "private" name space for systems. One would then just
have to make ship and player names private and one would be done.

Howard
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References

[Galaxy] Gunboat games?
dkass@cco.caltech.edu (David Michael Kass)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: [Galaxy] Gunboat games?
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000