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by Citizen Gengsta - 7/16/2003 1:54:32 AM
Well MIT isn't exactly a pleasant place. I have to return there in about a month. Between classes, swimming, and other activities, I end up doing nothing but study, work, swim, and party.
Sometimes, I doubt the sanity of everyone there and wished the professors would make their teaching easier/clearer. Other times, I wish I had a TA that spoke English clearly.
As you can see, I have a few gripes, but the students make the school and there are lots and lots of really intelligent people studying there.
Notes the use of 'there': There I go subliminally distancing myself from the place until I really need to go back.
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| Ah, I was wondering if you are not going to show tonight, Pontius. Busy cranking out your next gigantic, are you?You forget my friend that this is also Brad's dream as well. I've reposted his old posts where he talked about making the Metaverse ranking a vague reflection of skill and his dream scoring where there are big differences in scoring between difficulties.But it's his Metaverse and his call on the scoring. I've just holding on to some faint hope that he would tweak the difficulty scoring someday. That would be the only change I would ask for in the current scoring mechanism. |
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Naah I had a homeowner's meeting. Seem's I'm public enemy #1 for having blue backing on my blue curtains instead of white. Although there is nothing on the white requirement in the restrictive covenents. One of em vowed to take me to court. Dang Stepford Wives. Have to be in everyone's business. I shall have the pleasure of bringing them to ridicule in court if they so choose. Although a real-estate agent might just be cheaper than a lawyer. (In my case, it's free. LMAO)
But I love Gigantic. It takes longer, but There's no just hittting turn turn turn turn turn just to crank points like the other sizes. It's just not for me.
As to the difficulty settings. The base multiplyer I think is fine. It's the nerfing that went on regarding pop. The result is, the major component of scoring at maso is now gone, the others you just don't have the opportunity to do. But it's precisely the Maso players that requested the change. Ironic.
I think Brad's goal is to make money. I think he's got a certain budget and it's already exceeded. So, for a while, untill his programmers have some free time on their hands, don't expect a change. I'm also not complaining about that. They've already gone above and beyond with the freebies.
I guess some are pondering Galciv2. That would be nice. I'd love to learn C++ and have a go on that project. Teehee Wouldn't the MWC be PO'd... Pontius the omniscent Dev!!!! Bwahahahahahhaha!!!
  
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As long as we're pondering colleges...
Anyway here ever go to NYU or Washington and Lee University?
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"Other times, I wish I had a TA that spoke English clearly."
And I thought we only get this problem in Singapore. As an undergrad, I had to endure lecturers who enjoyed mumbling to the projector in heavily accented english.
We get a lot of postgrad students from China, India, etc who also take classes but it doesn't seem obvious to the college that the brightest folks don't always make the best lecturers.
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"Naah I had a homeowner's meeting. Seem's I'm public enemy #1 for having blue backing on my blue curtains instead of white. Although there is nothing on the white requirement in the restrictive covenents."
Are you serious? I thought conformity is a Singaporean virtue.
"I think Brad's goal is to make money. I think he's got a certain budget and it's already exceeded. So, for a while, untill his programmers have some free time on their hands, don't expect a change. I'm also not complaining about that. They've already gone above and beyond with the freebies."
Yeah, that's why I don't make any "I want the Metaverse changed now and in the way I like it" posts. I'm just hoping Brad gets into a good mood someday and decides to humour his fanatical Metaverse players.
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| And I thought we only get this problem in Singapore. As an undergrad, I had to endure lecturers who enjoyed mumbling to the projector in heavily accented english.We get a lot of postgrad students from China, India, etc who also take classes but it doesn't seem obvious to the college that the brightest folks don't always make the best lecturers. |
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The idea that the best researchers make the best teachers is little more than garbage spoonfed by academitions that don't wish their gravy train interrupted.
There is no correlation between writing journal articles (most of which do not break any true new ground in research) and prowess in the classroom. We had a prof that had a regular nervous breakdowns in front of his classes. LMAO they kept him on and threw him at the undergrads oblivious to the fact he couldn't teach. I've seen Ta's teach classes where the prof shows up maybe 4 times a semester. I've seen a class where the prof had no tests, and just did student led seminars all semester and promised everyone an A at the end of the term. But it's research that brings in the Grants and the money.
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Climbing down off my soapbox, I see it's time for bed... Good night.
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Don't look now but it appears that we are quickly creeping up on 4th place  .
One thing I'd like to understand better though. When I submit a game, I am lucky to get 30% of the score added to my total, often as little as 15%. On the other hand, that last game Staffa submitted got him over 50% ... or was that 2 games? In any case he jumped about 10k.
  
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The formula provided by Lanvik is correct but I too have noticed weirdness in the overall score increase. I have submitted two games in the region of 15k recently but my increase in total score was rather different. I'm not too sure why though.
Anyways, I'm going to submit my next game now. My current score stands at 42 games, 72,423.
Ok, I submitted a 13,530 game for a 2,242 pt overall increase. Hmm, v small increase.
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Thanks for the insight guys, you're a big help. I looked back at Staffa's list and see that it is indeed just one game, so I am still puzzled there. I think I'll write a post about metaverse scoring as it appears to me the designers forgot the K.I.S.S. rule when designing it. To my mind, the points you score from a game should all go to your score, and the only thing that should lower your overall score is time deterioration. No need for formulas etc, just a base score.
On a separate note, the Prophet has just had a *revelation*. You old veterans will get a good laugh out of this, but I just figured out something that should be obvious. In trades, you watch the color of the wording (duh, it's just like a streetlight). I tend to focus on one single aspect of the game at a time and ignore all else so that I understand fully what each thing does, which has the effect of putting blinders on me for the most obvious things.
Gawd all that time I wasted trading the hard way.... 
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Ummm...please expound on that. Are you talking about being able to tell whether the trade victi...er...partner will take the trade or not?
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[messed up the quote, question from 244]
Ok, from a n00b point of view (which I have had), I have spent all too much time getting another empire to trade. The seriously frustrating thing is that thw whole time I was fuming because there are about 4-6 stock phrases that the AI uses to say "hell no you dork". All that time I was thinking there has got to be a way for the stupid game to tell me when I was getting close... but it's already there  .
When you offer a trade (not tribute), the lettering is yellow in the box if the AI won't take the deal, and green as soon as he likes it. In my current game, which is another difficulty level up, I am smoking them all just because I finally got it on this issue... dum dum dum. I think I'll write a 'trading for n00bs' post on the strategy forum with all that I have discovered so others don't go through all the frustration I have heh.
More to follow ...
(Anyone else realize the potential of trading for influence?)
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