Back on July 24, I wrote this:
>
Move Clear As in "This
ship is going to CLEAR out of this
system."
> Trade Orange
Because it looks the most like gold.
> Construct
White Like the white building materials of Portland,
England and/or the Inuit.
> Attack
Purple Like the bruises you'll have when I'm done
attacking.
So it looks like we line up on everything but
whether to use Cyan or Orange for traders. No big deal one way or the
other. I think using Orange make more intuitive sense if you're only
looking at Xeno Treehouse sets. I think that your point about using an
IceTowers set is a good. I am now 50/50 on whether Trade should be Orange
or Cyan.
I initially thought that using only one of Cyan or
Clear in the game would allow the use of single-chargers abbreviations in games
records. BUT... rather than using C,O,W,P (or whatever) color
abbreviations when recording a game or sending a move for a Play Be
Mail game, it would be better if the Homeworlds community standardizes on
using the _powers_ for the abreviations, M,T,C,A as above (or C,T,N,W as you
used). That way one PBMer could use a Xeno set and the other a
Rainbow set, and there would be no confusion at all.
e.g.
Andy:1:Homeworld (LCST, la)
Russell:2:Homeworld (MMST, lc) Name (MMST, "Peace")
Andy:3:Construct (LCST, sa)
{Stash
Inventory}
A:2L,3M,2S
C:1L,3M,3S
M:3L,2M,3S
T:3L,3M,1S
Andy started with a Large
Construct/Small Trade homeworld with a large
attack ship, while Russell had
a Medium Move/Small Trade homeworld
(henceforth named "Peace") with a large
construct ship. Then Andy used the
Large Construct piece of his world
to spawn a small attack ship there.
Ryan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:30
PM
Subject: [Icehouse] Xeno
homeworlds
> Does anyone have reccomendations for color/power combinations for
playing
> homeworlds with a xeno set (specifically the IceTowers boxed set
colors, so
> no orange).
>
>
> Here's what I'm
thinking so far:
> ---
> Colonists: White
> * The opaque color
seems to represent a solid base from which to grow new
> ships
>
> Traders: Cyan
> * Closest to blue...
>
> Navigators:
Clear
> * Representing the void through which they travel
>
>
Warriors: Purple
> * Closest to red. Hottest of the four available
colors.
> ---
>
> If orange were added, that could be traded
for purple but I think purple
> matches much better with the other four
colors.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Evan Parker
>
>
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