Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The Underground Society

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 05:21  PM, Glotmorf wrote:


> > And what happens if a player goes On Leave or something? Does the game
> > simply pause until e gets back/gets garbage collected?
>
> I'll have to think about that.  My first thought is to say eir mole 
> stays where it is while e's on leave, and dies if e's 
> garbage-collected.

And eir turn gets skipped?

> > > 5. Joining a Game
> > >
> > > Members of this society may pay four points to the society to become 
> > > a
> > > player in a game of Tunnelers.  If a game is running at that time, 
> > > the
> > > player's mole is placed on the board at the Moderator's discretion,
> > > the player receives five cards from the deck, and the player's name 
> > > is
> > > added to the player list just after the last player to have completed
> > > a turn.  If a game is not running, the player's mole is placed
> > > randomly on the board, and the player's name is added to the end of
> > > the player list.
> >
> > This means that a member of the society can pay four points even if
> > they're already playing in order to relocate eir mole, gain five 
> > cards,
> > and get another entry on the turn list.
>
> Careful, guy.  You're on the verge of giving credence to the Baron's 
> MPD Scam.  "Members of this society may pay four points to the society 
> to *become* a player..." which means, like in the Baron's case, they 
> presumably weren't a player before.

You list four things that happen when a member pays four points:
* They become a player in the game of Tunnelers
* Their mole is placed on the board at the Moderator's discretion
* The player receives 5 cards
* The player gets added to the list of players (although technically 
nothing links the player list to the turn order)

The first of these will fail if the joiner already is a player. The 
other three won't.

> > Also, how can you guarantee that the game will ever end if dead 
> > players
> > can come back for 4 points? Or is that intentional?
>
> That's intentional.  If you get killed, you can re-enter for 4 points, 
> though with a base-stat mole.  Note that killing two other moles lets 
> you break even, and killing three yields profit.  And the jackpot 
> continues to climb.
>
> I suspect that, if any mole gets strong enough, people are gonna cease 
> to want to go after it with a base-stat mole.  That mole would then 
> wind up as the sole survivor and cash out, then a new game would 
> begin. (Anyone who wants to bankrupt emself pointwise just to prove me 
> wrong is of course welcome to do so.)

Since it's hidden data, we might not know when somebody became too 
strong to make it worthwhile.

--
Wonko

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