Start: 15. December 2004, 11:00:00

As for what its about - who knows LOL

lol

Online player: "viewing pond"- far out man.

That'll be baddessi with her fishing rod doing her garden gnome duty. :)

I'm taking you off hide and removing your posts. I will be happy to bring up your problem on the Mod Squad board for you. Maybe they will have an answer. Please don't post here again on the subject.

If one removes the server news does it turn up again every time there's new news, so to speak?

yes

Yes, ughaibu. It just removes that particular news item. Any fresh ones will appear on your main page as normal.

only 3 days till run around the pond starts woooo, can't wait to see what its all about

Then what, one can't help wondering, is the function of the Server News board, other than to store stuff one scrolled out of the way of games in which one was unable to decide a move?

It holds all the old news, just an archive of past events. People new to the site may find it interesting.

People not new to the site might be aware of it's existence and understand what little red numbers signify.

There is an easy to find, clickable question mark.

?

The wonders of serendipity!

It's weird, my wife's disappeared. Maybe I was in a species of BrainKing catalepsy from which her existence or otherwise ceased to register. Fencer, can you put a warning on the front page: "this site may be unsuitable for those who might ignore their wife if thinking".

lol@uGh!

Who are the site administators? (besides Fencer and liquid)

Only Fencer & Liquid :o)

lol

Currently there are 230 players signed for this new game. In the worst case, there will be 1 player eliminated per round. This means 230 rounds. Since there is 2 days per move, the game will last at least 460 days (not counting holidays). I think there should be some changes done to the rules, because this is not going to work.

Wiktor

I would hope it wouldn't take that long.. but, then again.. I've never played it before.. and not really sure of the rules.. so I probably won't last too many rounds..

How many want to bet I will last.. say.. 3? LOL

I see your point Wiktor. That point is only assuming that everyone is grouped together as one section and only if there is only one elimination every 2 days. However no one but Fencer and Liquid knows how it is going to be setup. It could be divided up into several sections like a normal tournament. However even if we are all together in one section, the odds are there will be multiple eliminations at least in the early rounds. With over 200 people in it, you must figure there will be several people betting the same number of points which may be the low bet.My prediction the whole thing will be done within 6-8 months. Still a long time, but not bad with as many people in the run. Your super sized tournaments with 100 or more people last longer than that.

It will be interesting to see (and play) - of course soon everyone will start to run out of "points" to bet so I don't think it could ever go 230 rounds - and I'm sure many times there will be multiply eleminations.

... again, will be interesting!

don't forget that some people will time out in the first round, can't use vacation days

Wiktor256: Exactly. As I recommended the game to Fencer, I said to him that the optimal number of the runners should be about 20. It's a little bit perverted now... :-)

i reckon 50 wouldn't be such a bad number...we'll soon find out how it works when its played, then we'll know more.

Hey, I can always define more ponds with a limit to signed users count :-) But the best way how to test the first pass is with as many players as possible.

I dont think it will last too long - people will quickly run out of points as they put more in the pond to avoid being the person(s) with the fewest.

yeh, i agree!

will pawns be able to follow up on the game? Or looking at the game board (pond?) is also restricted?

Looking is not restricted.

thanks! good to know

Fencer will we eventually be able to send out our own invites for the game?

Eventually.

cool :o)

i will offer my full amount to sit int he pond and catch anything thrown into it! ;)

I'm seeing more and more members showing extra support for BrainKing!!
Fencer,how many Gold Rooks are there now?

you'll see it when you click on your gold rook symbol in your profile

13 gold rooks

Cool!! learn something new every day!!! ;-)

Another possibility is to eliminate half of the players in each round. So, the number of rounds would be equal to log(N).

Wiktor

Note that the time estimates are based on 2 days per move. However with vacations and the auto-vacation feature in particular, a few slow players could make this last a lot longer.

Perhaps as people start dying of old age it will speed up a bit!

If I remember correctly, someone said a few pages ago that there will be no vacation or weekends in this game

Correct young padawan!

excellent. That Jedi training has paid off.

So, is it that we determine how many "point" or whatever they are called to put into the pond, trying to put as few in as possible without being the person with the least amount in (or tied with the least amount)?

Then the person or persons with the least amount in gets eliminated, then do it all again with the remaining players? Something like that?

Basicly your goal is to guess 1 number higher then the lowest guessing player.

So if someone on Turn one guesses only "1", then anyone that guessed 2-20,000 will make it to the next round. (And then in the next round, the person who guessed 2 will have 19,998 points left - while everyone else will have less points to guess with.)

Plus I think there is a bonus of 500 for whoever guesses highest.

Now if someone will just tell me they are guessing 1, then i can guess 2 (and since I know they will lie to me and guess 3, I will guess 4 to counter-act their lie! Muhahahaha

[corected 5,000 to 500 bonus points]

But if you guess the highest and tie with someone else, nobody gets the bonus? For example I guess 20,000 and so does someone else, neither of us gets the bonus, and therefore have nothing left to guess in the next round, and be eliminated?

Also, after round 1, someone may have more left than anyone else, and be able to guess their maximum and be gauranteed a bonus for another round of guessing?

It sounds interesting. It doesnt sound like there really can be too many people, but it may take quite awhile anyway.

aaaaaah thanks BBW, I understand now.
That was much easier than the rules page