PBM design and formulae - another fresh start

From: gilette@obsidian.unice.fr (Gilette Serge)

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 12:52:08 +0000

Here come some reflexions for those who think, *total* knowledege of
the game is necessary to play.

a) say for example you playing a game of galactic warfare, and that
   you're researching a new weapon. As long as that weapon haven't been
   field test, or at least as long as it haven't been finished, you
   *shoudn't* know what it's capabilities are. So you *shouldn't* have
   the formulas before starting researching/developing.

b) someone said games are unbalanced because new players don't know the
   rules as well as old ones and therefore wants all the formulas shown
   to 'equilibrate'. I can tell that when you're a new player the rules
   are usually long enough, not to have moreover some code to read. I
   played GB and didn't want at all to read that messy code just to be
   a better player. Hence you're at a more disavantages than the old
   players that know well both the rules and the formulas.
   You should be able to play only with the standart rules.

c) for the smart brains who think that one should show the formulas for
   they can be induce 'obviously' with a farily simple number of
   experience here is a challenge :

The setting is a galactic game, with hyperdrive of different technology
   level (1 to 5 for being nice), and where distance are measured in a
   given unit : p. The formula give the fuel comsumption for an hyperdrive
   jump.

send me distance numbers and tech level and i'll send you back the fuel
   and we'll see how many tries you need to have an idea of the formula.

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References

Re: PBM design and formulae - a fresh start
gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Graham Matthews)
Tue, 06 Jul 1993 11:55:13 +0000

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Re: PBM design and formulae - a fresh start
gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Graham Matthews)
Tue, 06 Jul 1993 11:55:13 +0000