Re: Galaxy: Yet another idea to change a perfectly good game

From: sutin@helios.UCSC.EDU (Brian Sutin)

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 05:23:07 +0000

In article <1ou1fj$34t@wahoo.ccr-p.ida.org> desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins) writes:
->Brian Sutin <sutin@helios.UCSC.EDU> writes:
->>>Some very experienced players think that being in a corner is an
->>>advantage.

->> I beg to differ.  Compare to Diplomacy, where the best position, and
->> the one most sought after, is Austria, with the most diplomatic
->> interactions.  Turkey, with the fewest, is reserved for beginners.
->> Statistically, Austria wins the most often as well.

->Here is a table of the first 100 Diplomacy games played on the Internet
->and assigned Electronic Protocol numbers.  By any reasonable standard,
->Austria ranks last or next to last.
->[table deleted]
->I look forward to seeing your statistics to the contrary.  I wonder what
->would make them so radically different from these?

->                                        David desJardins

The statistics were done in the magazine The Dragon, a gaming rag put out
by Avalon Hill, who sells the game.  I am not going to bother going to find
the article, since, as Greg Lindahl pointed out, ...

Brian Sutin		kd6tla		sutin@lick.ucsc.edu
Lick Observatory, UCSC			Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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References

Re: Galaxy: Yet another idea to change a perfectly good game
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Sun, 21 Mar 1993 03:24:52 +0000
Re: Galaxy: Yet another idea to change a perfectly good game
sutin@helios.UCSC.EDU (Brian Sutin)
Sun, 21 Mar 1993 06:32:33 +0000
Re: Galaxy: Yet another idea to change a perfectly good game
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Fri, 26 Mar 1993 04:40:19 +0000

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Re: Galaxy: Yet another idea to change a perfectly good game
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Sun, 21 Mar 1993 03:24:52 +0000
Re: Galaxy: Yet another idea to change a perfectly good game
sutin@helios.UCSC.EDU (Brian Sutin)
Sun, 21 Mar 1993 06:32:33 +0000
Re: Galaxy: Yet another idea to change a perfectly good game
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Fri, 26 Mar 1993 04:40:19 +0000