From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V2 #205 Reply-To: acka-games@muppetlabs.com Sender: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Errors-To: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Precedence: bulk acka-games-digest Monday, December 1 1997 Volume 02 : Number 205 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:38:25 +0000 () From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: This Must Be Fixed On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote: > > I just realized that it has been more than six days since I announced > the beginning of Round 2 of Mediocrity, so by the Rules I'm removed > from the game, and _another_ round ends ignominiously. > > IMHO, the game implementation, as it stands, is broken. I think what > it needs is something more like the *ping* rule, where instead of the > round ending automatically after six days, after six days any player can > note that the Moderator seems to have disappeared, at which point the > Moderator is removed from the game, and the player who pointed it out > becomes the new Moderator. Or something like that. > > Of course, we can always make it like every other game and give it a > Referee instead. Anyone have any preference? We may as well try a referee - although perhaps we need some reward / penalty clause on em as well? (Say some A$ payments if they return each round's results within 6 days of its commencement, and some A$ penalties if they don't). Otherwise it could take as long as a game of Grab-a-Donkey. Now what is the status of the current game? How many players are left, and is this sufficient to continue it? Yours, Slakko - -- Duncan "insert appropriate alt.folklore.urban internym here" Richer aka Duncan C. Richer - aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother - Now Really Lost! Queens' College -- PhD, Pure Maths, Graph Theory -- Cambridge University Expatriate Australian bitterly cold, and hey! It's only November. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 09:50:56 -0500 From: "Vivian Norwood" Subject: Acka Viruses: Round 16 ROUND 16 Moves: Red Barn (!) - Place G10 Thin Man (T) - Place P11 Alfvaen (A) - Destroy L9 New Grid: X Y Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 25 . . . . . . . . . . . / . . / / . . . . . . . . 25 24 . . . . . . . . . . / / . . / / / . . . . . . . 24 23 . . . . . . . . . / . . . . / . / . . . . . . . 23 22 . . . . . . . . . / / / / / . / . . . . . . . . 22 21 . . . . . . . . A @ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 20 . . . . @ @ . . A A @ / / / . . . . . . . . . . 20 19 . . . . . . . . A . . . . @ . . . . . . . . . . 19 18 . . . @ . @ . . . A @ . @ . . . . . . . . . . . 18 17 . . . . . / . . . @ T T . . @ @ * . . . . . . . 17 16 . . . . / / @ @ . . . . . W . . @ . . . . . . . 16 15 . . . . . . . . * . . . W . . . . . . . . . . . 15 14 . . @ . . . . . . . . . W . . * . . . . . . . . 14 13 . . . * . . . . . . . . . . @ . . . . . . . . . 13 12 . . . . . * . . . . ! . A A . . . . . T T . . . 12 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A . . . T . . T . . 11 10 . . . . . . . . . ! . A . A . A . T T T T . . . 10 9 . . . . . . . . . ! . A . A . @ . . . . . . . . 9 8 . . . . . . . . . @ . A . . A A A . . . . . . . 8 7 . . . . . . . . . @ @ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 X Y Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U Points: /dev/joe received a virus point this turn! Cells Points /dev/joe (/) 23 3 Alfvaen (A) 17 0 Thin Man (T) 10 1 Two Star (*) 5 3 Red Barn (!) 3 0 Rex Mundi (W) 3 0 Whiz (X)has been removed from the game. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:01:38 -0500 (EST) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: This Must Be Fixed > Otherwise it could take as long as a game of Grab-a-Donkey. Nothing takes that long, except the current (or perhaps now the most recent) cycle. > > Now what is the status of the current game? How many players are left, > and is this sufficient to continue it? > The game is fine, it will continue until there is only one player, thats how it works. Expect the results to be posted this afternoon or tonight, I was going to do it yesterday but my email was on the fritz. > Yours, > Slakko > -- - Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V2 #205 ********************************