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Newsgroups: net.games
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From: esquire!bin
Date: Thu Oct  1 23:50:10 1981
Subject: Future psl games tape bugs
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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