[risque] Re: Risque code idea

[Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>]

Very clever idea!

I'll have to look into it, and the ramifications it would present...

but at first glance, it would be turn 0.  (default behaviour being
random)  

Richard

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:26:31AM +0000, Eric Shultz wrote:
> I don't know if Risque has dropped off the legal radar enough for you to 
> keep adding to it, but you mentioned you were going to fix the code so 
> that the winner doesn't have to wipe everyone out.  I thought I'd 
> mention an idea I had a while ago.
> 
> It would be cool, but extremely unpractical, for players to choose 
> countries at the beginning, like they do in Risk.  I was thinking 
> instead of taking turns picking countries, a bid system could be used.  
> Everyone gets a certain amount of points to bid on countries.  Highest 
> bidder wins the country.  This way, everyone makes one extra message 
> that allocates points to countries, and the server does the rest.
> 
> There are all sorts of little technicalities that will come up, but I 
> thought I'd mention the idea and see if you liked it enough to implement 
> it.  If you don't, I won't take it personally.  Someday I'll learn to 
> program again....
> 
> Eric Shultz
> swift
> 
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