Food Chain: new experiment beginning From: lindahl@deshaw.com (Greg Lindahl) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0000 I have a new experimental set of rules running on the experimental food chain jungle, fchain-e@pbm.com. To play, send mail to fchain-e@pbm.com with the word "rules" in the body of your message. The new rules are: (1) 5% waste of food, (2) plant growth never decreases, (3) test function for everything but starvation is the square of the function in the rules, (4) each animal may be hunted only once per cycle, (5) effectiveness of hunts declines as you get more of them, and (6) all new animals are available to be hunted in the next cycle, not just half of them. (2) and (6) are new rules. If you used to play food chain but have stopped, I encourage you to try this new varient. The fchain-e hill is in a somewhat weird state at the moment, with a size-5 herbivore dominating. However, rule (6) should allow carnivores to dethrone that herbivore. -- greg Up