Re: [pbmserv-dev] Perudo Idea

[Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Eric Shultz wrote:
> 
> --- Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net> wrote:
> 
> > suddenly there is an incentive to try to make the
> > right bid early.
> 
> I don't know. I'm frustrated enough with the people
> who do mathematical calculations to decide how many
> dice there are.  I don't think we want to encourage
> it.  

C'mon!  

number of dice of type X you have
add (number of other dice out there) / 6
equals the "expected" total number of dice of type X
give or take some for standard deviation
add or subtract some based on your current standing with the dice gods

Bingo!


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