Re: ARENA

From: srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 04:54:07 +0000

>Has anyone but me noticed that in Death Arenas, where supposedly
>'all fights are to the death,' the fight will end in a tie if no
>one dies by the end of the 20th minute?
[...]
>Scott told me this was not a bug, and since I had an early
>DA fight that went 36 minutes (I eventually won), I'm assuming
>he made a programming change.

If you can't kill your opponent in 20 rounds, the Arena Masters get
bored and toss you out on the streets.  You're supposed to be killing
machines, after all.

But seriously, the reason for the rule is simple: It's quite possible
to have a matchup that will never end (i.e., two overloaded fighters).
I discovered this when a fight that went over 8000 rounds filled up
the partition that Arena runs on :-).

In the commercial version of Arena I'm thinking of having the Arena
Masters whip both contestants between rounds if they take more than 10
rounds to finish off their opponents.  Eventually someone will expire
to whipping if not from his opponent.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: ARENA: betting discussion
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Fri, 16 Dec 1994 17:20:50 +0000
ARENA
Doug Bailey <dsbailey@ingr.com>
Tue, 20 Dec 1994 16:46:17 +0000

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Re: ARENA: betting discussion
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Fri, 16 Dec 1994 17:20:50 +0000
ARENA
Doug Bailey <dsbailey@ingr.com>
Tue, 20 Dec 1994 16:46:17 +0000