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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Looking for Comments/Suggestions for Spaceward Ho! Version 2.0
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Date: 30 May 91 20:40:09 GMT
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Well, I've played it a little bit on a friend's color Mac II, and I
think it's just an incredible game!  There are, however, a few things
I'd suggest:

- Use the System 7 Help Manager for help, instead of the little help
window?  I've noticed that even when you close little help windoid,
the disk still does a lot of accesses as you move the mouse around.

- I borrowed the game disk and tried to play it on my SE -- and found
this endeavor painful at best.  The only way I could find to tell
between red and green planets is to look for the little line that red
planets have in the windoid where you set how much money you're giving
to planets.  And (most annoyingly) the screen is far too small to see
the bare minimum of what you need to see at once!  Perhaps think up
some less-cluttering way of allowing access to the necessary data and
windoids?

- I haven't tried a multi-player game, but from what I've heard about
them, it seems that in a ten-player game you'd need to wait for 45
minutes before you can spend your five minutes on a move!  If this is
true, I'd suggest thinking up some way to let all players input their
moves simultaneously; if it's not true, forget I even mentioned it.  ;)

- Perhaps allowing IAC between the copies of the game running on the
net would be a more viable means of keeping a multi-player game going;
perhaps not.

I hope these suggestions are helpful -- I really haven't played the
game much, but it looks great!

     << Brian >>

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