"Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > While it is still fresh in everyone's minds, I thought I should > > make some notes on possible improvements for the next apocalypse. > > > > 1. Timing > > > > We probably all spent more time on this than we can afford. > > I think 5 days was too long; 2-3 days feels about right. > > > > It seems fairest to announce the game start time two weeks (say) > > before the event, to give people time to prepare. > > I think that 5 days was good. Or you could have 2 games going > Newbies and Guru. The Holes would be the same BUT the duration would be > different. ie (Newbies 5 days, Guru 2-3 days). Update the scores and announce > the winners at the 2-3 day mark BUT don't release the code. Would that be too > cruel a punishment for the gurus.
I think a weekend would be fine (i.e. 2 non-working days) > > > 2. Tie-breaking rule > > > > I chose to break ties by rewarding the first to post. > > I suppose other ways are possible (e.g. reward the more > > efficient one) but they all seem a little artificial. > > This seems fair to me. First in Best dressed. I don't think that > efficiency and Golf should ever be mentioned in the same sentence :) `First wins' is not good IMO, perhaps some additional scoring like for example using non-average(usual) solution is better? this is arguable of cource but it is just an idea... of cource this won't be factor for different strokes count solutions... > > > 3. Number of Holes > > > > Though 9/18 is traditional in golf, five seemed sufficient to > > provide an interesting spread of scores. Any more than five > > may be unnecessarily cruel. > > No more than 6. 8 :) > > > 4. Hole Difficulty > > > > When I posted the game, I thought the holes were too easy. > > In retrospect, I think they were about right because they were > > simple enough to allow novice golfers to have a go, while still > > providing a challenge for the elite golfer. > > This level was good. As a newbie, I was certain that I could complete the > game thought I wouldn't be too far off the pace. nothing is too easy :) I think any task wich can be solved with regular, readable, non-tricky, few lines (screenpage?) solution will be ok > > > 5. Individual Hole Scores - to post or not to post? > don't -- just total. P! Vladi. -- Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal home page at http://www.biscom.net/~cade DataMax Ltd. http://www.datamax.bg Too many hopes and dreams won't see the light...
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