Aesquire.147 net.games utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!esquire!bin 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.