Re: What to do with Xconq

[Keir Novik <K dot E dot Novik at qmw dot ac dot uk>]

I was going to write a long message, but James Dunson has just done a
better job than I would have.  So, aside from saying "hear, hear" to what
he wrote...

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, James R. Dunson wrote:

> * A multi-scale game, where players could "zoom in" on critical battles
> and handle them on a new map. 

One problem with this is that each scale will have different rules, making
the game (perhaps) overly complicated.  Otherwise, I love it...

> Special terrain could be stored explicitly, but most terrain would be
> generated semi-randomly (but repeatably, so with a seed somewhere) based
> on the "over" hex, and perhaps it's neighbors. 

In the case of a scenario on Earth, we could provide a pre-generated set
of maps (one for each possible scale) generated from satellite images.

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