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From: kennedy@kennedy.bridgewater.ne.hcc.com
Subject: Re: Galactic Civilizations (was Doing away with SAVE and RESTORE)
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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 19:43:51 GMT
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In <y04u5c1w200w@alcyone.darkside.com>, max@alcyone.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis) writes:
>kennedy@kennedy.bridgewater.ne.hcc.com writes:
>
>> In Galactic
>> Civilizations -- I realize it is not really IF, but it's an interesting case
>> -- your opponents are real artificial intelligences who are playing by the
>> same rules you are.
>
>I've never heard of this.  Could you give us some more information 
>about it?

Galactic Civilizations is an SF game in which you take command of the humans 
of a interstellar colony ship lost in a wormhole.  You must find and colonize 
a world, and then, over the ensuing centuries, expand into more, while trying
to outrace several alien cultures that are expanding into the same area.  It
is chiefly a game of resource allocation, with elements of diplomacy and war.
It is only available for OS/2 -- the PC operating system for grown-ups.

