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When you say 4 crystite is better than 3, I disagree MuleyMan.  I pointed out in another thread maybe that this creates a potential for everyone to be equal in crystite, thereby making it all about smithore.

Whereas with less plots in the original game, and less highs it was far more likely someone would have better crystite and be trying very hard to crash smithore and keep it crashed. Crystite was much more important in the originals.

Also, last place had nothing to do with who got the plot on c64 anyway, it was random.  I heard they didn't have random maps in the Atari version either, maybe the random generator code wouldn't fit or maybe they realized that it was overpowered to always give land auctions to last.

Interesting to hear about first port preference as someone just pointed out that they thought the "spacebar" on the c64 had a preference to the other keys.  I have to say that I never realized it was going on and certainly never got beat more or less than anyone else, the odds of two people hitting the button at the exact same time must be incredibly small.  Do you have any informative links please?