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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:57:59 -0500
- From: "Timothy C. Worsley" <tw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: INL changes
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- Excerpts from netnews.rec.games.netrek: 18-Nov-92 INL changes Sam
- Shen@aero.org (985)
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- > 2. Get rid of sudden death overtime. Just have a 15 or 30 min
- > overtime period. Sudden death makes sense when scores are few and far
- > between (like in baseball), but in netrek planets change hands fairly
- > quickly (more like basketball).
-
-
- I actually rather like the sudden death overtime. I feel like taking
- 1.5 extra planets is a wide enough margin that it shouldn't happen on a
- fluke.
- What I don't like about it is that everyone gets poofed right before
- it. It results in the sort of defensive stace that GB used against SS
- (Note: I thought that it showed excelent planning by GB to do that. I
- also thought that it demonstated a fundemental problem with the current
- overtime system.). A brief freeze and a big anaouncement to ALL would
- be better.
- I hope that the INL council considders this before next season. As
- there get to be more and more OT games, this will become more and more
- of an issue.
-
- ZZnew guy
-