[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Never-Ending Spacerace

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:29:10PM -0700, Joseph Ennis wrote:
> 
> --- Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:39:16PM -0300, Mark
> > Metson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I would like an option allowing the game to have
> > the spacerace but to not 
> > > end when someone reaches the destination
> > star/planet.
> > > 
> > > This is so that the mother-planet can continue to
> > have effects upon the 
> > > colonised planet when we proceed to play out what
> > happens on the new 
> > > planet. I have already been working on scenarios
> > for the colonists, 
> > > presently I assume all the players all landed on
> > the same planet with the 
> > > same number of engineer units at the same time.
> > But eventually it would be 
> > > nice to be able to stagger their arrival in accord
> > with how far behind 
> > > each other they were in the space-race.
> > 
> > But doesn't this increase the gap between the best
> > and the second
> > player if the first player has the planet 20 turns
> > for him alone?
> > 
> >     Raimar
> > 
> 
> Does that matter? This seems like the fair answer.
> 
> You should be able to choose the landing site on the
> new planet (at least with some amount of precision --
> i.e. this contienent or that island), so you shouldn't
> be too close to another player's cities, unless you're
> *really* far behind or the other player spread
> him/herself too thin.

You can observe the planet when you have satellites. You can land
precisely where you want (Apollo and moon). And since the tech is
quite advantages (you have engineers or some newer unit) you can do
quite a lot in these turns till the other player are coming.

One thing to offset this would be that building the space ship is
_very_ expensive. And may also make the nation vulnerable.

        Raimar

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