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Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:10:55 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Derek Raycraft wrote:
> Can towers touch the sides of the arena?
I can't see why not...I don't think this ever came up.
> Although I proposed this rule, the problem with it is it forces anyone
> who builds towers to also sort. Since we were discussing allowing
> different levels of participation to complete, this seems a little
> restrictive.
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> I would like to suggest we reward the construction of a tower in your
> home colour, rather then penalize one that's not. That way a pure tower
> builder can compete and not have to worry about sorting.
Isn't that just six or half of one dozen?
> I think we should play a few scenarios based on past performances and
> try and work a balance. While keeping it simple too.
Can you though? The only person to have really found home consistently was
JeffE back in rtl3/4.
> -Sorting - return blocks of your colour to your home.
> -Tower Building - build a tower of blocks
> -Home Colour Tower Building - build a tower out of blocks of your home
> colour.
> -Home Colour Tower Building at Home - build a tower out of blocks of
> your home colour on your home square.
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> The great thing is if you can pull off the last one you get points from
> each of the catagories. Each block in the tower counts for sorting, you
> built a tower, the tower is in your home colour and of course you build
> a tower in your home colour at home.
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> However the complexity of achieving that last one could lead to a lot of
> failures. A simple sort the blocks or build a tower robot could do
> quite well.
So, you want to give people points for returning blocks (ie, towers of 1 tall)
into home?
How do you propose the point difference between Tower Building and Home Colour
Tower Building and Home Colour Tower Building at Home?
Calum
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| (...) No, because if I build a tower without sorting the colours, and the bottom block was the opponents colour I would get nothing for it. I'm suggesting that you should get full points for the tower, but you don't get the bonus for building it all (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I'd also be concerned that scoring this way would open the door to to "loophole bots" like Rob's (?) at RTL15 (URL) which, while I thought it exploited a clever loophole in the scoring, did somewhat disadvantage other bots that more closely (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Can towers touch the sides of the arena? (...) Although I proposed this rule, the problem with it is it forces anyone who builds towers to also sort. Since we were discussing allowing different levels of participation to complete, this seems a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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