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Thu Oct 1 23:50:10 1981
Future psl games tape bugs
Changes being made to Empire to create new & better bugs:
Nuclear weapons -- WHEE!! Fail-safe codes, attempts to defuse captured
bombs, radioactive wastelands, nuclear subs, protest riots, the works.
Education -- Library/school sectors to go with research & technology,
(as a prerequisite).
Public Works -- Park sectors to boost your h_level (happiness?). Rich,
happy countries can get sectors to defect from poor, unhappy ones.
Hexagonal Grid -- If I can get all the --------000000000011
problems worked out, Empire will go from 87654321012345678901
square to hexagonal grid. As it stands -3 ^ - - - - a - . . . -3
right now I intend to number the sectors -2 ^ - . a . a . . ) . -2
thus -->. Although it's a little weird, -1 - n m g a b a - a - -1
it solves several problems that other 0 a a l a c u . a f a 0
numbering strategies raise. Note that 1 - p a u ^ ^ a a * a 1
sector coordinates are either both even 2 s m a a ^ ^ m r m r 2
or both odd. I still haven't found a 3 - - ^ - ^ m a w h - 3
good scheme for indicating the direction --------000000000011
of motion; l \l /r r \r /l seems pretty 87654321012345678901
awkward. Ideas?
Peter Langston
chico!esquire!psl
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