Re: [pbmserv] Robots update

[Mark Hartwell <hartwell@copper.net>]

Randall Bart wrote:

> Lyman Hurd wrote:
>
> > That being said, I don't think rewarding making
> > multiple moves makes much sense!
>
>
> I agree.  However it should reward killing lots of robots on the same 
> move.  How about 1 for the first, 2 for the second, 3 for the third, 
> so your score for a turn the triangle of the number of robots killed.

i agree with both of you.  i ran up some pretty high scores by not 
worrying about my own deeath, if i knew it would be on move 3, 4, or 5 
of a bunch of moves i'd send in ... also, i "cheated" by starting in 
level 9 or 10, then teleporting a few times until the random setup was 
favorable (ie, the close ones are going to bash into each other, then i 
can sort of go e,w,e,w,e,w for a bit)


Randall Bart went on:

> I used to play this game on an Apple ][, 25 years ago, but there was 
> no scoring, and there was a square containing a base.  If you managed 
> to move to the base you survived the round.  But if a robot hit the 
> base, he destroyed the base.  Maybe there were two bases per round.  
> This was a long time ago.


i've never seen a version with scoring ... the game just kept getting 
harder until you died