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In order to promote good playing behavior, I'd like to introduce the concept of "Death with Honor", which I suggest to be included as a tie-breaker in tournaments just after the number of wins. Definition follows:
He won the LPTPW thread with the following: "The zombie plague was but an elaborate decoy to allow my american troops to move into key locations around Belgium, such as Burgundy with the support from the rest of Europe to eliminate the zombie threat."
I know it is a little early, but I am curious. If the American presidential election were tomorrow, who would you vote for and why? You can pick Republicans who have not announced their candidacy yet. You can also pick a Democrat that you would pick over Obama.
Except a win only gets you 18 SCs worth of points in PPSC. Doesn't matter how many you win with. This is to discourage setting up for a maximum crushing win and just win it when you can.
Some probably because they don't know. Others (like my recent 19 SC win) because they want to make certain they didn't overlook something and either end up still at 17 and stalemated or worse.
Others, like smiley, do it because they are greedy bastards... And damn, I didn't know that you would only get 18 SCs (a little more than half of the available points). Maybe that's why I like WTA. Except I don't win...
Also, the 3 centers in Civil Disorder don't count. So it would be: 18/29 x 210 = 130.3448275862069 10/29 x 210 = 72.41379310344828, and 1/29 x 210 = 7.241379310344828.
Those numbers are close but not quite right because rounding puts them at 130/72/7, not 131/73/8.
It seems like the single center should be worth at least 7.5 so it would round up to 8. But then wouldn't 10 centers be worth 75, not 73?
It gets funky in PPSC when folks are CD and the winner wins with more than 18. But it is PPSC so I'm not too worried about it.
Yeah, I was looking at that and it is funky a bit, even when computed with 31 SCs (it's 31 total owned, alderian, not 29). Rounding occurs in odd places so a variance of 3 to 5 is nothing, but it did give him the full 20 SC credit (or 19.33 SCs worth at least).
Last I checked, the equation counted all owned and active SCs, potentially stealing extra points. And if you take the 131 and divide by 18, you get 7.27 per SC210/24 is 7.24 which multiplies to 130.3 and rounds up to 131 (it's not a true rounding but a ceiling function). This also computes correctly for the other two with the ceiling function. So it is Points / (Total Owned SCs - Extras from the win) to get a non-rounded PPSC. Then multiple by number of SCs, limiting the winner to 18 and ceiling function the result.
Pondering the idea of writing some fan-fic for some epic games here. Does anyone have suggestions for games with lots of drama, twists, climax, etc? Would the players involved be willing to give interviews for the inside stories?
Why are there so few quality World Dip games here?
I've played hundreds of games, and on this site my win\draw ratio is quite strong, as it generally tends to be. I consider myself to be a strong player, not an expert, but quite skilled.
However, I am noticing that in the World Dip variant, the talent pool seems to be rather shallow...why is this?
What are your thoughts? After a couple of couple of games under my belt I'm beginning to grow quite irritated at PPSC. It always seems to dwindle off into one less well doing player helping another better doing player to a solo for a fair share of points. More under the cut.
How about we debate the existence of God? (Though I highly doubt anyone will change their minds on this subject) I am a Christian, but I think I'll let an atheist go first.
After the private university furore, Dawkins is in trouble again
Apparently one of our elders and betters has made a somewhat questionable analogy between a man chewing gum and the unwelcomed propositioning of a woman at an atheist conference. I am sure that this was eminantly logical but I am just struggling to see how!
I have a game that was paused, but one player hasn't returned for 3 days (he is not the one that requested the pause) and everybody else is ready to go again. How long does etiquette demand we wait? Can we even GET somebody to unpause it?
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Let's get one of our own on DipCast for an interview! You know the drill: +1 as many people as you like, but you can't vote for the same person more than once.
And how much greater a stench it is when it wafts in from just near my own backyard... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/south-california-proposed-as-51st-state-by-republican-supervisor.html
That has to be the DUMBEST state idea I've ever heard. Period.
I have one game (a gunboat) that I need a sitter for. Can anyone help me out, please? I assume there is no appropriate way to contact the people in the gunboat to request a pause.
points distribution?
is nothing, but it did give him the full 20 SC credit (or 19.33 SCs worth at least).
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