Re: ARENA: some points of view

From: wang@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Wei Wang)

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 23:34:40 +0000

ldavid@utdallas.edu (Dave Larson) writes:

>Andrew Morrissey (ajmor5@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
>> If a gladiator gets killed in battle, maybe the winner should claim
>> all the dead gladiators gold and equipment?
I think the winner does get all the gold.
I've had two kills in non-death arena competition and won the loser's money.
The trick to one turn kills seems to be a head shot with ++strength or so.

>--
>I like this idea.  Does anyone else think that the betting is a waste of time?
>I just had two of my gladiators risk over 150 gold each  and only win 1
>gold each on the fight!  My third gladiator bet 9 on the same fight and
>also won 1.  What's the deal?
>From now on I think I'll only bet 1 gold per fight.

Yeah.  This betting system seems to be a bit fake, since only few fights.
get a large betting crowd.  How about if there were automatic odds base
on records?  Like 10-0 vs 0-0 is 20:1 etc...

Wei
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References

Re: ARENA: some points of view
ajmor5@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Morrissey)
Sat, 17 Dec 1994 00:58:15 +0000
Re: ARENA: some points of view
ldavid@utdallas.edu (Dave Larson)
Sat, 17 Dec 1994 04:28:23 +0000
ARENA: some points of view
euaahg@eua.ericsson.se (Anders Hallberg)
Fri, 16 Dec 1994 13:06:21 +0000

Referenced By

Re: ARENA: some points of view
ajmor5@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Morrissey)
Sat, 17 Dec 1994 00:58:15 +0000
Re: ARENA: some points of view
ldavid@utdallas.edu (Dave Larson)
Sat, 17 Dec 1994 04:28:23 +0000
ARENA: some points of view
euaahg@eua.ericsson.se (Anders Hallberg)
Fri, 16 Dec 1994 13:06:21 +0000