Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal/RFC: The Code of Life

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's exactly it. I was originally thinking of 3-letter sequences mainly
just because i would have liked to call the attribute a player's Codon
rather than something so vague sounding as "DNA" but indeed with 16 possible
combinations I figured a 2-letter sequence was about right. As interesting
as a GATTACA minigame sounds it wouldn't be workable with the twins idea
like Wooble said. Perhaps you could submit a proposal whereby teams compete
to be the first to form GATTACA if we append their DNAs end to end :D?

Here's what the combinations look like in my current proposal (it IS both a
proposal and an RFC):

       A        T       G       C
A     -         -        -         -
T     -         -        -         -
G     -         -        -         -
C     -         -        -         -

If you look at each row as the first letter of someone's DNA and the column
as the second letter, that matrix gives you 16 possibilities. If you're in
the same square as someone else, you are twins. Anytime you're otherwise in
the same column or row as someone else you are a single mutation away from
being twins, potentially (6 possibilities of htat). Any other time you are 2
mutations away (9 possibilities of that).

I was already thinking of submitting the part about twins not voting against
each other's proposal separate from the rest. Should i make it three
proposals? :D

Billy Pilgrim

On 12/17/07, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2007 5:41 PM, Mike McGann <mike.mcgann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I like the concept. How about trying to get the framework in and submit
> the
> > "Twins" parts of it as a separate proposal after the first passes?
> Instead
> > of assignment by Dice Server, how about initial assignment is simply
> done by
> > the Registar but it must be a unique assignment. And make the code 7
> letters
> > with some tomfoolery that happens if you can get your genetic code to
> equal
> > GATTACA.
>
> I think having ~16000 possible sequences would make the whole Twins
> thing a lot less interesting than having 4.
>
> Or is my math bad?
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