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- From: spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves)
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- Subject: Re: Scattered Pops in INL- I vote NO!
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:31:49 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu's message of 22 Jan 93 11:11:36 GMT
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- Alec> This is not a fair comparison. The 40 second pop thing is a bug
- Alec> in the server code that some people have learned to exploit.
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- it's no bug, it's how they wrote it. not that i think that matters:
- we should consider and test each change carefully, and only adopt
- those we think make the game more fun. i think this change makes the
- game less interesting, and have posted evidence to back this up.
- where's yours?
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- Alec> For the most clued/skilled and least lagged out there, every
- Alec> little thing that can be turned to their advantage must be used,
- Alec> since the level of competition for them is so high that that
- Alec> little bit makes a difference.
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- yes, the "most clued" actually do try to play well. i don't see what
- lag has to do with this. in fact, your statement is a rather
- transparent attempt to turn this argument into "the high-clue is
- trying to maintain an unfair advantage over the rest of us". that's
- ridiculous.
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- finally, you suggest the adoption of the "mathematically clean"
- poisson distribution. if you're interested in cleanliness, just flip
- a fucking coin.
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- Mergatroid
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