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Re: Circle is the New Square

Fri, 11 April 2014 15:28

XAPBob

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skoormit wrote on Fri, 11 April 2014 18:21

XAPBob wrote on Fri, 11 April 2014 09:08
Toroids are clearly the way to go...

But why? Why leave a gap in the middle?

We can move HWs wherever we like. Therefore we can place them in a circle (exactly or approximately) so that the starting positions are roughly balanced.

But why leave no stars whatsoever in the middle? Seems to me like the stars in the middle will be fought over. And interestingly so, since all players will have roughly equal access to them.

If you take the middle stars out, you are giving everyone one less direction to expand.

Two separate questions - I was thinking of a 3D toroid - clearly impossible with Stars! - but it's the universe of Asteroids (and others) - when you exit the map to the left you reappear on the right, similarly top to bottom.

The "Ring" is a halfway house - you get a long thin universe, where running off the end brings you back to the start - but you can't run off the top to get back to the bottom - if you see what I mean???

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		Circle is the New Square By: skoormit on Thu, 10 April 2014 16:21
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: m.a@stars on Thu, 10 April 2014 16:44
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: nmid on Fri, 11 April 2014 07:28
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: skoormit on Fri, 11 April 2014 13:17
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: skoormit on Fri, 11 April 2014 13:23
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: m.a@stars on Fri, 11 April 2014 15:48
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: Altruist on Sat, 12 April 2014 05:43
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: XAPBob on Fri, 11 April 2014 10:08
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: skoormit on Fri, 11 April 2014 13:21
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: XAPBob on Fri, 11 April 2014 15:28
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: m.a@stars on Fri, 11 April 2014 15:41
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: neilhoward on Fri, 11 April 2014 10:56
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: neilhoward on Sat, 12 April 2014 12:58
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: neilhoward on Sat, 12 April 2014 13:05
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: nmid on Sat, 12 April 2014 13:21
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: skoormit on Sat, 12 April 2014 20:57
		Re: Circle is the New Square By: neilhoward on Sun, 13 April 2014 18:16

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