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[Design] Open Offer

Started by Ben Lehman, April 24, 2006, 10:00:58 AM

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Ben Lehman

April 24, 2006, 10:00:58 AM
Now that the forums got renamed I feel more at home here.  Go system!  Go system!  Structure play!  It's your birthday.

With that in mind, I'd like to make an open offer to do mathematical analysis on the system or homebrew rules that you're working on.  You!  Yes you!  I will, of course, possibly not have time for it.

Reply to this thread or drop me an e-mail.

yrs--
--Ben
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Levi Kornelsen

#1
April 24, 2006, 02:19:31 PM
Ben:

Skip me an email, and I'll send you some very, very strange mechanics.

Cyberzombie

#2
April 24, 2006, 04:31:17 PM
It'll be a while, but I may just take you up on that.  :)
 

Ben Lehman

#3
April 24, 2006, 10:47:30 PM
Levi -- I don't have your e-mail address.  Ping me at the address below.

Everyone: my e-mail is taogames@gmail.com

yrs--
--Ben

*edit*
admin edited for kindness to the original poster - hopefully the spiders didn't have long enough to grab his email address for spamy-spam spam.

*edit2* unfixed. see below.
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Levi Kornelsen

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April 24, 2006, 11:00:55 PM
Quote from: Ben LehmanLevi -- I don't have your e-mail address.  Ping me at the address below.

You have mail.  Oh, boy, do you ever.

Thjalfi

#5
April 24, 2006, 11:05:16 PM
Quote from: Levi KornelsenYou have mail.  Oh, boy, do you ever.

think I should fix that for him?
 

Ben Lehman

#6
April 25, 2006, 12:26:47 AM
Hi, Thjalfi --

Thanks for your concern.  But that address is actually my open, public address.  It's posted online in a number of places.  I have it specifically so I can post it w/o using spaces and such.

I get around 600 pieces of spam a day to that address.  I doubt that another post will make it that much worse.

(my personal e-mail is a different account.)

yrs--
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Thjalfi

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April 25, 2006, 01:17:49 AM
Quote from: Ben LehmanHi, Thjalfi --

Thanks for your concern.  But that address is actually my open, public address.  It's posted online in a number of places.  I have it specifically so I can post it w/o using spaces and such.

I get around 600 pieces of spam a day to that address.  I doubt that another post will make it that much worse.

(my personal e-mail is a different account.)

yrs--
--Ben

oh. well, I guess I can unfix it for you then. ;)
 

Ben Lehman

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April 25, 2006, 06:41:44 AM
Thanks for tolerating my strangeness.
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Cowardly Leech

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April 29, 2006, 04:31:52 AM
I would thank you if I can see a mathematical analysis of a game.  A link?  Please.  Then I may understand what you mean.
 

Ben Lehman

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April 29, 2006, 05:08:37 AM
Quote from: Cowardly LeechI would thank you if I can see a mathematical analysis of a game.  A link?  Please.  Then I may understand what you mean.

Basically, it means ironing over your system and looking for places where the numbers are not doing what you think they mean, or where there is are clear and unintended optimal choices.

Ask Levi for an example :-)

yrs--
--Ben
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Levi Kornelsen

#11
April 30, 2006, 02:37:41 PM
Ayup.  

Ben went over my conflict system and found the place where it starts doing something wonky (basically, a place where the best choices were boring ones).

And then he gave me two possible solutions.  I picked one.  Problem solved.  

So I'm pretty happy about that.
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