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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho 2.0 Suggestions
Message-ID: <1991May31.170041.9305@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 17:00:41 GMT
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Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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You know, I've been playing this for almost six months now, and outside of
better and better computer oponent strategies, there's just not much I'd
add.

Three quick suggestions for the interface, however:

a)  If there was some way to better differentiate between unexplored and
    explored-but-not-inhabited non-colonized planets on a B&W screen, that
    would be a great help.  (I have a color screen now, so not a biggie for
    me.)

b)  When running through the Explored Planets list (which contains the
    vitals for every planet you know about), it would be nice to be able to
    double-click on the planet on the list, and have the map automatically
    "go to" (i.e., center) on that planet -- much like what the Fleet list 
    is able to do.  (This isn't in 1.1 -- I haven't checked to see if it's
    contained in later revisions):

c)  If there were a shortcut to align the amount of money spent on a
    planet being terraformed with the "black bar" which shows the minimum
    money to be spent on the planet -- a one-stroke/click way to align them
    -- I'd love it.  Even better would be a way to put a planet's spending
    so that the budget for that planet stayed aligned with that bar as it
    shrank.

A great game which I've gotten many hours of pleasure from.  Whatever you
add, I'm sure the upgrade fee will be well worth it.  I look forward to
paying it!

                           "I hope the money men don't find out that I'd pay
                            them to let me do this."
                                           -- David Lean
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