Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: nweek 8 results

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Donald Whytock wrote:
> Well, like I said in the first draft of my votes (where I irresponsibly
> quoted what might have been volatile text from Mr. A), I'd like to see a
> bit more randomness in pass reception, so that there's a small chance
> the pass will miss.  Yes, the Super Bowl is fresh in my mind, and the
> word "interception" keeps swimming around in my head.

Well, my plan was to get passing up and running, then modify it for
interceptions this nweek...

> Or perhaps a forward pass would be at a certain square rather than a
> player, and incur a certain amount of delay because of its hang
> time...so that even if it arrives on target, there's a small window for
> someone using a pinball gun to knock the intended recipient out of the
> way and move into position to catch...

That's one possibility

> Otherwise, it was pretty much automatic that the intended recipient of
> the pass would in fact catch it.  And as side-splitting as it is to say
> this in the context of a Nomic game...that's not realistic.

Well, yeah... but the thing is... you get something that works in, and
then you tweak it to work better.  Scoff! and I found that out the hard
way with judical reform.  Don't do things in one go.... do them in little
chunks.

Besides, you could have proposed an interception rule, and gotten points
off of it.... :)

> Guess I should have said something sooner.  I'm about as bad as all
> those abstainers.

Yeah.... I've noticed that Football seems to have a great deal of apathy
towards it.  Well, I'll continue hoping that more people will join teams
and try to stop me from getting 20 points by getting to the end zone.  I
also hope that by next nweek a) I'll be able to pass, and b) I'll have
someone to pass to.

Bean