root wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I missed that bit when I skimmed the proto. I agree that would >> inflate too rapidly -- with the current score index, a player with no >> points would win in four weeks without even doing anything. > > Er, "non-real score". So the above is false, but a player with i > points would win in three weeks.
No, e would go to -1 points and stay there. In general, though, even small complex scores would inflate way too quickly, e.g. (S = 0) 2+i -> 3+4i -> -7+24i -> -527-336i (S = 1) 2+i -> 4+4i -> 1+32i -> -1022+64i A better analogue to the Mandelbrot set would scale the winning condition down from 100 to 2, thus do something with P/50 and S*50, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to tune it so it doesn't pull too hard in one direction or the other.
