Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Proposal: Random scouting, fixed fare

Times out and passes 8-2. -Bucky

Adminned at 14 Dec 2011 18:09:57 UTC

In the rule “Scouting”, replace the text:

A Driver may spend X cash, where X is the greatest of: the number of Routes that driver has in their list, the number of Routes described in subrules to “Routes” and 5.

with:

A Driver may spend 7 Cash.

Creating new Routes doesn’t make random scouting more interesting.

Comments

Murphy:

13-12-2011 02:34:33 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

13-12-2011 02:47:32 UTC

for

Pavitra:

13-12-2011 04:53:24 UTC

for

Bucky:

13-12-2011 05:35:22 UTC

for

Prince Anduril:

13-12-2011 15:06:18 UTC

Still pointless. There are 9 routes less expensive, and 6 routes more expensive, which gives you a 60% chance of being worse off. Since it’s random, you might as well only do it if you have a better chance of getting a more expensive route.

With random scouting costing 6, you’d have a 57% chance of being worse off.

If it costed 5, you’d have a 31% chance of being worse off.

So, we either need to change the scouting costs, until it’s a 50% chance, or it’s never going to be worth doing.

Prince Anduril:

13-12-2011 15:06:28 UTC

against

Soviet Brendon:

13-12-2011 17:32:55 UTC

against

Cpt_Koen:

13-12-2011 17:50:05 UTC

The current cost for random scouting is 15.
I’m proposing to make it 7.
And you vote against because 7 is still too expensive?
SO basically you’re saying “7 is too expensive, so 15 is better.”??

Soviet Brendon:

13-12-2011 19:43:49 UTC

Change it to ” A Driver may spend X cash, where X is the greatest of: the number of Routes that driver has in their pool and 7.” and id vote for

ChronosPhaenon:

13-12-2011 19:55:59 UTC

imperial

Cpt_Koen:

13-12-2011 20:34:45 UTC

Why should I do that?
I don’t understand why people with more Routes should spend more Cash than people with less Routes.
When I joined I thought this was to help Drivers with the less Routes come back at the others (for instance, Drivers who just joined the Dynasty) but as it turned out, having a lot of Routes is not necessarily an advantage.

scshunt:

14-12-2011 01:38:27 UTC

for

Spitemaster:

14-12-2011 01:47:31 UTC

for