17th November 2005, 6:44 AM
I would say they are more like jellyfish than squid myself :D.
As far as mapping, according to the instruction booklet you were meant to actually draw your own map as you went along. It took many many plays of this game before I actually started mapping it out in my head, so I went with pad and paper for a good while. A side note: use graph paper. My idea of using "loose leaf" was not a good one... If you were to trust my maps, everything seems to curve at a parabolic rate to the upper right.
As far as mapping, according to the instruction booklet you were meant to actually draw your own map as you went along. It took many many plays of this game before I actually started mapping it out in my head, so I went with pad and paper for a good while. A side note: use graph paper. My idea of using "loose leaf" was not a good one... If you were to trust my maps, everything seems to curve at a parabolic rate to the upper right.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)