Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-09 Thread Quazie
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Quazie wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: >> 23. A gnome who abandoned eir comrades wins if all gnomes who did not >>    abandon their comrades lose; otherwise e loses. > > If i abandon, how can i lose?  Rather how can a gnome win without aba

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-09 Thread Quazie
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > 23. A gnome who abandoned eir comrades wins if all gnomes who did not >    abandon their comrades lose; otherwise e loses. If i abandon, how can i lose? Rather how can a gnome win without abandoning? Also, no indication of how many minutes i st

DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-08 Thread Ian Kelly
Second draft. I'll start the process of making this an actual contract in a couple days if there are no further comments. 1. This is a public contract called Red November. This contract is intended to be a contest. The contestmaster CAN add axes to this contract by announcement. The cont

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Benjamin Caplan wrote: >> 46-60 minutes, depending on the number of gnomes.  The board image >> linked to in the appendix has the time track running around the edge >> of the board. > > It would be good to have this explicit, probably in paragraph 5. Okay, I'll add

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Quazie wrote: >> Also, how many minutes does each gnome start with? �Is there some >> representation of the track? > > 46-60 minutes, depending on the number of gnomes. The board image > linked to in the appendix has the time track running arou

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Quazie wrote: > What if the room connected by the open hatch is at high water and the > other is at low water?  No change? No change, there's no medium water state. > Also, how many minutes does each gnome start with?  Is there some > representation of the track?

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > I am having serious trouble figuring out what happens here if multiple > gnomes abandon their comrades, and the sub is lost. The phrasing used in the original rules is that a gnome who abandons has eir winning conditions reversed, which would i

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Quazie
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > 9. A gnome's sequence of movement consists of one or more iterations >   of the following steps: > >   a. Spend one minute to Open an unblocked hatch attached to the room >      the gnome is in. > >   b. If one of the rooms connected by the open h

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:20 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > 19. If no surviving gnome has any minutes remaining, and the sub has > not been lost, then all surviving gnomes who have not abandoned > their comrades win the game. > > 20. A gnome who abandons eir comrades wins if all other gnomes los

Re: DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Quazie
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > Proto-contest: Red November > > 1. This is a public contract called Red November.  This contract is >   intended to be a contest.  The contestmaster CAN add the Y axis to >   and remove any other axis from this contract by announcement. > > 2. A c

DIS: Proto-contest: Red November

2009-05-05 Thread Ian Kelly
Proto-contest: Red November 1. This is a public contract called Red November. This contract is intended to be a contest. The contestmaster CAN add the Y axis to and remove any other axis from this contract by announcement. 2. A contestant to this contract who is currently involved in an