For some reason some of Agora is falling into my Spam on gmail. If you’re going to limit Energy use to a max of X because of the profit in savings both combatants would get, it’s more profitable to limit it to a max of X-1. And X-2, etc. I don’t know where some kind of equilibrium would be reached but I’m under the impression that the best strategy is to just spend 1 Energy to attack and have the other concede and spend 0, decided via an external agreement/competition that isnt an actual Space Battle.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 19:18, D. Margaux <dmargaux...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think this works. Punishment for violation could be to permit the > aggrieved player to act on behalf of the violator to transfer to the > aggrieved player a number of coins sufficient (but not more than necessary) > to enable the aggrieved player to put emself in the same position with > respect to armour and energy as e would have been in if the contract had > been followed. (The precise language of that punishment may need to be > ironed out a little.) > > > On Jan 29, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@uw.edu> wrote: > > > > > > Proto-contract: Unlasting Damage > > (does this work? thoughts, edits?) > > > > When a combatant is a member of this contract, when they initiate a space > > battle with another member, they can specify that the combat uses Anti- > > Entropy. Members of this contract agree that, for any space battle in > > which both combatants are members and this is specified, they will > submit a > > value in the range N-30, where N is between 0 and 20, inclusive. > > > > (thoughts on punishment if broken?) > > > > This contract is not an alliance. > > > >> On 1/29/2019 8:15 AM, D. Margaux wrote: > >> I resolve space battle 0002 as follows: > >> twg chose 10 energy. > >> G. chose -10 (i.e., negative 10) energy. > >> twg's spaceship: 10/10 armour*, 10/20 energy > >> G.'s spaceship: 0/10 armour, 20/20 energy** > >> twg is the winner. > >> ---- > >> *By Rule 2591, armour is a switch with value 0 to 10, so twg's armour > >> CANNOT grow to 20. > >> **By Rule 2592, any energy in excess of 20 is destroyed, so G.'s > >> energy CANNOT grow to 30 (or if it does, it is immediately reduced > >> back to 20). > >>> On 1/15/2019 6:02 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > >>> ------------------------- SPACE BATTLE 0002 > ------------------------- > >>> 2019-01-15 - UNRESOLVED > >>> SECTOR 07 > >>> Aggressor: twg VS. Defender: > G. > >>> Energy: ?? Energy: > ?? > >>> Resolver: D. Margaux >
