Re: [haggis] sets

[Mark Ballinger <mballinger@fibres.net>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:36:18AM -0700, Eric Shultz wrote:
> It seems like there was slightly more trading done in
> this game.  I think the "set of each" cards seem to
> enhance trading, while the "Each pair multiplies the
> value of" tends to stagnate trading.  
> 
> I don't think it has to be a set of each suit to work.
>  Could be "Each set of 2 red, 1 blue, and 1 green is
> worth 5" kind of thing.

More complicated sets would be good, as would the suggestions in your follow-up email:

> "Green is worth 6, only if you have no blue"
>
> "A complete set is worth 10, only if you have more red
> than yellow"

I'll try to formulate code for them.

The way I determine which "special" rules to use is pretty lame.  (and yes, Eric, the computer can tell the difference.  All of the basic value rules are tagged as "value" type.  The rest have other names.)  What should really happen is we should think up 
percentage chance for each special rule, say, out of 100 rules assigned, you would eventually get:

10 limit (you are penalized if you have more than . . . number of a given suit)
15 majoritybonus (holder of most cards of given suit gets bonus)
 5 oddeven (odd/even on total number of cards submitted)
 0 lowball (low score wins)
 5 kicker (each set multiplies value of one other card)
15 suitoddeven (odd/even on number of cards of a suit)
10 submitter (first player to submit bonus)
10 straight (each set of 1 of each card is worth . . .)
30 setofeach (variations on your rules above) (not programmed yet)

We also need to talk about what are reasonable point ranges for these rules.  Can everybody kick in suggestions on the distribution (out of 100) of rules and their values?