Re: Duelmasters at Ritzab

From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)

Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1992 03:35:07 +0000

In rec.games.pbm, ccs012@judy.ucdavis.edu (Riff-Raff) writes:

> In article <9840005@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
> >I just got my results back from my first fights in
> >the Ritzab arena.
>
> So what's Riztab like?  Lots of teams?  Lots of uncharted teams?  Much
> competition?  One team that's 100-0-100?  Others that are playing at
> about 20% w/l?  What's it like?

There are about 22 teams.  Roughly half of them are uncharted teams.
That is a lot of new teams.  The best teams have about a 60% sutained
winning level.  I have no idea what the standard deviation and mean
are, but it looks reasonable.  The best record iw 100% for a team
that just started and went 5-0-1.  But this guy admitted that he
fights in another arena, so he has experience.  I will be tested
against on of his players again in the next turn, cause I am blood
fueding the little scrub.

>
> >My team 'Wretched Excess' now has a 2-3 record.  One of
> >the losers was killed, which was ok, cause I did not really
> >like him much.
>
> Well, it's always preferable when the losers die.

Yeah, I guess.  I am not as happy about it as I was before.

>
> >One of my victors got 12 recognition points and put himself
> >solidly in the top two thirds of the initiate crowd.
>
> Interesting.  It sounds like there are a lot of Initiates ranked awfully
> low, if this is the case.  It must make the pickin's for a new team like
> yours seem pretty easy.

Not really.  I am not stupid enough to think this is representative, besides
2-3 is hardly stellar.  There are 50 initiates, and my guy made it to #16
on the first fight, but now he is going to blood fued the guy that killed
my other player, so I may even lose him.

But it is expensive enough that if I do not make steady progress the
motivation to keep playing might go down.  It ceratainly was amusing
once, and there is LOTS of territory to explore.

How much use do people make of the special tactics?

doug

References

Duelmasters at Ritzab
daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Tue, 03 Mar 1992 00:43:43 +0000

Referenced By

Duelmasters at Ritzab
daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Tue, 03 Mar 1992 00:43:43 +0000