acka-research Digest Monday, January 04 1999 Volume 04 : Issue 004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Miller Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3981 Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 14:35:24 -0500 (EST) On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 jtraub@dragoncat.net wrote: > Proposal 3981 > Donkey Breeding > Robin Hood > Due: Mon Jan 11 14:17:01 1999 > Cool! Now players with 3 donkeys have no advantage over players with 2 donkeys! Someone submit a fix! IB ------------------------------ From: RobXXVIII@aol.com Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3981 Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:19:22 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 04/01/99 19:35:47 GMT, you write: > > Cool! Now players with 3 donkeys have no advantage over players with 2 > donkeys! > But no player will ever have 2 donkeys at the start of their turn, so that doesn't matter. It should also encourage people with just one donkey to go grabbing, since if they succeed they get a extra donkey free. Robert ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3981 Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:32:05 -0500 (EST) On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 RobXXVIII@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 04/01/99 19:35:47 GMT, you write: > > > > > Cool! Now players with 3 donkeys have no advantage over players with 2 > > donkeys! > > > But no player will ever have 2 donkeys at the start of their turn, so > that doesn't matter. Not if you give them a free one at the end of their turn.. which is what your proposal does.. so yeah, you're right. > It should also encourage people with just one donkey to go grabbing, > since if they succeed they get a extra donkey free. > Eh, maybe. I just don't like saying, "there's no difference between 1 and 2, let's move the problem to no difference between 2 and 3." Like it or not there was some -reason- why 1 player had 2 donkeys and one had 3. But then, I'm an idiot. IB ------------------------------ End of acka-research Digest V4 #4 *********************************