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>From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
>Subject: Cherryhlist - starchase
>Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 10:27:40 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> 	4) warship, no cargo units
>
Again this "warship" stuff. I don't think a childrens game should be a
wargame.
 
> I think the randomness of the number of jumps is important.  It takes
> into account things such as repair time, r&r, loading time, etc.
>
Maybe. 
> 
> I worded this badly, I intended to say something about learning new
> jump points.  Other people could learn of the jump points, you could
> sell information about jump points to the other players.  You could
> even publically anounce the coordinates of the null point.
> 
> I finally found the 2 passages that deal with Starchase.  It seemed to
> me that each turn the players would set their prices for a turn that
> they would sell stuff at. 

That is not necessary a "global" price fixing, more like "give me 1000000
for this food if you need it that much".
> 
> 
> One item we need to think about is the endgame.  What are the victory
[...]
That sounds good.
 
> One thing to consider is why was there an advantage to two people
> joining their fleets?
> 
> Matt
>
Perhaps ships get advantages from visiting a "homeport", and these
advantages would not exist in an informal cooperation.
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> 	There is a project I had thought of just before I went to
> the states but have not had the chance to propose to the list. Namely
> the starting of the first stage and producing a Concordance of
> Cherryh's Universe. It basically involves pouring through Cherryh's
> books (something we all love) and taking detailed notes (something
> we don't all love). In the end we would have basically an Ecyclopedia
> for Cherryh's Universe. Not only a excellent launching point for
> creative construction of a gaming supplement but also a good resource
> for any Cherryh fan.

That is a great idea, BUT...

I recently found out how hard it is to read a book with half a dozen
computer files open, adding/changing text in each of them.

The Cherryh universe is very interrelated. It would be really hard
to distribute the workload. If people want to share the job,
we would have to distribute topics, not books.

> 	Wasn't someone comprising a list of characters in Cherryh's
> universe? Perhaps they would like to do a character sketch of everyone
> too.
I have done a list of HT, HB, DS and ML, and currently I'm adding
the Compact characters. However, a character sketch is something
completely different, and since I'm puzzling(sp?) over the Compact
history, too, I won't have the time.
BTW, the character list contains every name mentioned in these books,
and only a really small part of them are characters.

Onno
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> 	Can we not do stuff like post 800+ lines of code to a 
> 	discussion list? Some people have tiny little screens, and
> 	it takes a DAMN long time to page through something like
> 	that; and it's damned annoying to page through 800+ lines
> 	of code for a game I'm not interested in to find there's 
> 	nothing after it.
> 
I agree that the code is a bad idea, but I would like to keep the 
discussion on the list, to get comments from those who would not
join a separate mailing list for the game.

Onno