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From: conty@cbnewsl.att.com (The Conty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SpaceWard Ho again
Message-ID: <1991May21.143713.19766@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 21 May 91 14:37:13 GMT
References: <3333@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Organization: The Event Horizon
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In article <3333@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, ianf@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Ian Florance) writes:
> Spaceword Ho sounds very similiar to REACH for the STARS.

SH is Reach for the Stars done right.

> In RFTS human players can not really play each other because you know
> (1) Where the previous player on the star map is;

You only know which planets belong to which player.  The only way to gather
that information is to explore/attack unknown planets (which have a question
mark in them).

> (2) Home planets can be deduced by ship movements which occur on screen
>     after the last player

You don't know planetary strength unless you attack.

> How does  Spaceward Ho compare?

You do
have a table indicating your relative strength in terms of income,
number of planets, key technologies, etc.

> {Is there and IBM version

No.
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