Galaxy 122

[RktSci]

I know that I will. It's the type of game that I want to be playing.

Davin covered most of what I would have said. A few random comments.

Here is how I approach the turn. I open the program, choose the galaxy, open the turn on the web, open the turn in the program, open my basic scout and chart map. I look over the turn on the website, then choose the printer-friendly version. I select all and copy it. I open MS word to a blank document, set the margins to narrow, landscape mode, view as draft; then paste the copied turn to the document. I save it to a directory of turn reports, named "Turn 3500-01.doc" or something original.

I look at the map, then open actions. I open the turn summary and look at the shuttle summary. I copy and paste it to a word doc also. I go through it, looking for places I need to add shuttle runs - the summary will tell you which production center is closest if there are no shuttles going there. One thing that can help is to right click on a star. The box that pops up allows you to see the history there, check distances, and look at ships there. You can right click on a ship to get a menu of actions. This makes doing shuttles really easy.

I go down my turn, and as I assign actions to a ship or fleet, I use Word's highlighting feature to highlight it in green. I mark up things that need attention in magenta or blue. As I enter actions, I use the error check feature to see if I need to tweak them. Every so often, sort the actions (to look for things like "To" orders that can be collapsed down to two per line, etc.), then I transmit it to the web site.

Using a Word document and the highlighting feature lets me keep track of what's gone on if I have to stop working on the turn and resume.