On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 06:35:08PM -0800, David Rose wrote:
Have any of you come up with any brilliant tools for organizing this
information?
[My Reply:]
Hi David,
About the only way I can see to do it is to generate a text file
with each sector, followed by it's connecting sectors, the way it was in
Tradewars 2000, back in the pre-internet, Bulletin Board System days.
Since the map had 1000 sectors, the map was 1000 lines long, but I still
had to create the map by hand, calculating routes from point A to B, to
keep from using up my movement turns.
I was spending the initial phazes of the game, mapping, finding
a cluster of 3 or more sectors with only one way in that was defensible,
creating planets in them, and mapping space stations routes which had
the best trade potentials. It took a bit of work, even while I was
sighted, but I'd think a list of sectors and their connections is the
only way to go, and another list of trade sectors and what's being sold
in them. That way you can see so-and-so is selling wheat and buying
farm machinery, and whats-his-face is selling farm machinery and buying
wheat, and they're only a few sectors apart. Voila, you've found a
trade route.
I used to love finding little clusters with a tunnel of sectors
leading into them. Plant all your defenses in the tunnel to make a
multi-staged defense against the bad guys, and protect your planets and
stations, and create your own trade routes the way you like. Then go
find the guys doing the same, stomp their guts out, take over their
stuff and mine the crap out of their sector, so when they came back to
the game, they'd be really ticked at you. .evil grin.
Anyway, if Retro Space Wars is anything like Tradewars 2000, I
think I'm gonna enjoy kicking your butts. .grins.
Michael
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