Re: Taipan...

["Matt Garretson" <garrem@alum.rpi.edu>]

> My congratulations, BTW. I never got even close to that high without
> the EBWu cheat.


I did use the "cheat" at the beginning.  But after you make your
first Billion or so, the cheat becomes more of a nuisance
than anything else, as you have to keep borrowing from it to
prevent the debt figure from getting too long (more than $999
Million), which messes up the screen's text formatting.

And once the bank account hits ~100 Trillion, it seems to be
most efficient to just sail from port to port without trading
at all, as the bank interest accrues far faster than any earnings
you could make from commerce.  (By the end of the game, i
was getting over $4 Trillion in interest per month!)  The key
to prolonging the game is to keep about 500 units of general
cargo at all times, to toss overboard when attacked.  Yeah
it's cowardly, but it works. :)  You need a deathwish to take
on a fleet of over 2500 pirate ships!


> (Taipan for the z-machine now on release 2, with a bunch of bug fixes
> on R1. Also, source code released. Both on ifarchive.org. I'll stop


Awesome... Taipan should be ported to every platform! :)


-Matt