SUGAR RAY rules

From: fkschmid@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Schmidt)

Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 20:48:30 +0000

SUGAR RAY

Sugar Ray is a play-by-electronic-mail (PBEM) game in which each player
controls a boxer. The boxer's goal is to be promoted to the highest
league and become (and remain) International Champion.

SUGAR RAY is (C)opyrighted by Reinhard Schoen. To get more information
about this game and the PBM magazine 'POSTSPILLION' send mail to
rschoen@mathematik.uni-ulm.de

Each boxer has two stats: Skill and Endurance. Both stats will change
during the boxer's career.

Sugar Ray is an open-ended game for an unlimited number of players.
You can join and leave at any time.

THE BOXING MATCH

Each turn you have a boxing match against one of the members of your
league.
A boxing match consists of five rounds, if it's not ended by a KO
prematurely.
NOTE: The five boxing rounds are only ONE turn.

THE BOXING ROUND

For each of the five rounds you have to state an attack number and a
defense number. Both numbers have to be positive or zero.

Then the fatigue for this round is calculated:

Fatigue = ( 3 * attack number ) + ( 2 * defense number ) - skill

If the fatigue is greater than zero, the boxer loses endurance
points according to the following list:

Fatigue         1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ...
Endurance lost  1  1  1  1  2  2  2  3  3  4  5  6  7  8 10 ...

If the fatigue is greater than 15, you lose 2*(fatigue-10) endurance
points.

If the endurance of at least one boxer becomes less than 1, this boxer
is considered knocked out, and the match is over.

Then the exchange of blows takes place: if one boxer's attack number
exceeds the defense number of his opponent, the opponent loses
(difference*2) endurance points.

If now the endurance of at least one boxer becomes less than 1,
this boxer is considered knocked out, and the match is over.

NOTE: Both boxers can be knocked out simultaneously.

THE RESULT OF THE MATCH

If exactly one boxer is knocked out, his opponent is the winner of
the match. If both boxers are knocked out, a tie is declared. If
no boxer is knocked out, the boxer with the greater total of attack
points wins on points. If both boxers have equal numbers of attack
points, a tie is declared.

EXAMPLE MATCH

Player:   Miller          Player:   Murphy
           Skill=10  End=26          Skill=12  End=21

Att       Def             Att       Def
              2         3               6         0
              3         0               3         3
              2         2               3         4
              0         5               4         2
              3         1               3         3

Training (S) (E)          Training (S) (E)

This will be listed in the match report as following:

Murphy (12,21)  6/0 (15)  3/3 (14)  3/4 (12)  4/2 (11)  3/3 (10) PW
  Miller (10,26)  2/3 (19)  3/0 (13)  2/2 (11)  0/5 (11)  3/1 ( 6)

The numbers in brackets after each round are the remaining endurance
points.

HOW SKILL AND ENDURANCE CHANGE

Immediately after the fight, both boxers regain their initial endurances.
If one player was knocked out, his skill decreases by one point, while
his opponent's skill increases by one.
If one player scores a point win, he gets an endurance point, while his
opponent loses one point. In case of a tie, nothing happens.

After the match you can train either skill or endurance.
If you train skill, you will get a skill point.
If you train endurance, you will get 1d5 endurance points (an imaginary
5-sided die is thrown, the result is the number of e. points you get)

LEAGUES AND CHAMPIONSHIP

The boxers are divided into three leagues; league GOLD contains the best,
league BRONZE the worst boxers. Each turn the GameMaster pairs off the
participants of each of the three leagues.

Every boxer has two matches per turn, against different opponents.
The result of the first match has no influence on the second match.

The boxers who win both matches are promoted to the next higher league,
and those who lose both matches are relegated to the next lower one.
The boxers who won(lost) one match and had a tie in the other are
usually promoted(relegated), but the GameMaster may decide not to do it
if one league would be much bigger than another then.

Winners in league GOLD are not promoted and losers in league BRONZE are
not relegated, of course.

Beyond the leagues there is the International Champion. His opponent is
the boxer that has the highest gold record. The gold record is three
times the matches won in GOLD, plus the number of ties in GOLD. The
gold record is set to zero if the boxer challenges the Champion (no
matter if he wins or loses), or when he is relegated.
If there is more than one such boxer, one of them is chosen by random.

If the International Champion loses the match, he is relegated to
league GOLD, and the successful challenger is declared the new
International Champion. Otherwise, the challenger will return to
league GOLD.

The International Champion has no training because he spends too much
time partying ;-)

STARTING STATS, PAUSING AND NMR

In the first turn, the boxers start with a skill of 10 and an endurance
of 20. If you start later, you'll start in the lowest league and get the
stats that are usual there.

If you don't send in your move in due time, your attackpoints and
defensepoints will be set to zero, and you'll get no training that
turn. You will be set on the list of pausing boxers.

You can put yourself on the list of pausing boxers if you put a remark
'pausing for x weeks' after your turn orders. You can be reactivated at
any time, the GameMaster will then put you in a league your stats are
fitting in.