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- From: jason@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Jason Ehrlich)
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- Subject: Re: Letter to Changeling (long)
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 18:44:15 GMT
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- > What does colony spending do? The manual says it speeds up
- > progress towards becoming a homeworld, but a homeworld is just
- > a colony with a port.
-
- I think when you have a colony, you need to pay for its uptake, but
- when you have a homeworld, it generates taxes for you.
-
- > What do yellow boxes and red circles on the galaxy map mean?
- > Something to do with ship detection, but the manual doesn't
- > say anything about it.
-
- From what I can tell, it means another empire is moving into an area
- you've explored or control(led?). This dones't seem to be in the
- manual :-)
-
- I've had a few crashes, mostly at StuffHex, whatever that is. But I
- didn't see it ever in the beta-testing; I wonder if it's something
- with computer players.
-
- Do y'all out there in net.land play in Turn Mode or "Real Time"?
-
- jason
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