Re: ARENA: betting discussion

From: manderso@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Michael Anderson)

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 06:41:54 +0000

I was thinking of a different version of this idea.  How about a
sweatshop where broke fighters can work to get money?  Now it cannot be
as simple as enter for free and come out with more gold, but It could be
something like this...  For every night your character sits in the
sweatshop working, he gains a small amount of gold, and once this
ammount reaches a max, say 50, then he can no longer work.  This way
fighters won't be eliminated from the game because of a bad bet, or an
unwise research attempt.  Instead, these fighters will have to sit our a
few days working in order to make enough money to return to the arena.
Now I can see this being abused, say the sweatshop gives 10 gold a
night, every three nights it would be possible to study once.  After a
long period of time you could make a very skilled warrior, even with the
restrictions on the sweatshop (that a warrior cannot go above 50 gold
through the use of a sweatshop).  I think this Idea has a lot of merit,
but I'm not sure how you would prevent excessive working to gain more
skills.

Any Ideas?

: Has anyone had a record worse than (0-4-1) yet?

: I was on my last 50 gold coins, so I headed off to the death arena.
: After the second or third round, my spear shattered, so I was left to
: fight it out to the death weaponless.  I never did any damage to my
: opponent after the weapon shattered, so I assume there's no code to
: cover weaponless combat.  The round lasted for about 17 or 18 rounds,
: as my opponent was very fatigued, and there were rounds that nothing
: much happened.

: The free pit with 25 gold reward sounds like a great idea.  At this
: rate, I can't see anyone getting to 30 losses and being forced to
: retire.  4 or 5 straight losses are more than enough to put any
: gladiator out, I think.

: Moz.

References

Re: ARENA: betting discussion
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Fri, 02 Dec 1994 16:13:52 +0000
Re: ARENA: betting discussion
slouie@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Shelley Louie)
Sat, 03 Dec 1994 01:25:31 +0000
Re: ARENA: betting discussion
ajmor5@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Morrissey)
Tue, 06 Dec 1994 02:03:41 +0000