[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Never-Ending Spacerace

[Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Raimar Falke 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?

Yes, but...

The but varies. Could be "but tough".

On the other hand if all the planets/stars are part of some larger game,
the player who took longest to leave the homeworld might gain some new
tech from visiting aliens before leaving the homeworld.

Or the destination planet might already be inhabited by people from yet 
another world, or indigenes. It would all tend to vary more and more 
depending on which planet you "started" from and what planets are near 
enough to it for the "spacerace" level of tech to reach.

Eventually the whole spacerace thing would need to be revamped of course. 
Maybe be able to build space-station colonies out of more and more and 
more colony modules. Whatever. Its just a start, it opens up a whole lot 
more stuff than it solves. I like open-ended games. It seems a waste to 
throw away games that have been played, they should be archived somewhere 
as yet another planet or even yet another timeline. Hmm, timelines, now 
that could make for some tricky possiblities. Timetravel games have always 
been kind of awkward to do. But just lots and lots and lots of worlds with 
complete histories could be useful backdrop for something...

-MarkM-

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