Steemit Ultra marathon – Test game, round three

The runners are bunched up a bit more tightly now, thanks to an unfortunate incident involving a ram. But the quick application of a BBQ seems to have sorted that out and now the competition is heating up.

@nathen007 holds a small lead over @cyoadventuregame and @kiwiscanfly but it is not all over for the big man. Changes are afoot that may see him get back into the race.

Sitting comfortably in the back of the pack, @len.george and @toofasteddie are running steadily and doing well to manage the damage. Remember, this is a long race and anything can happen.

Changes to the game engine

Today I made some changes to the game engine to make it possible to get back into the game if you overcook things and ruin your health, and to even out a few other bits and pieces. The changes are:

• Added the ability to choose to rest. If you choose to rest, you will travel forward 3kms. For each hour you rest (and it must be whole hours specified), your health damage is halved.
  E.G. if your health damage adds up to 10 and you rest for 2 hours - you will move forward 3kms. Your damage will be divided by 2 for the first hour –( 10 / 2 = 5). It will then be divided by 2 for the second hour – (5 / 2 = 2.5). This should allow you to get back in the game if you get it horribly wrong, and still have a chance of winning.

I don’t want a player to max out their damage early on and then never have a chance of competing. It would make it not a lot of fun for them. So this will hopefully give them a reprieve, whilst not making it beneficial to run hard, rest for a turn then run hard again. If you did that, the others who are more careful and tailor their running to the course are likely to cover more distance.

• Added a tweak so that if you run a bit slower than the average ‘runable’ value for the distance you are covering, your health scores will improve slightly (or at least not be increased as much as they would have been). So this should allow for some more strategic running when you are trying to manage your damage.
• I have added a checker to the Weird Stuff Happens wild cards. Each card now has a ‘type’. Negative (you slow down, go backwards, take on fatigue, damage etc), Neutral (nothing bad or good happens) and Positive (your health improves, you get extra distance etc). you last wild card type is recorded so that you don’t get the same type twice in a row. This should hopefully solve the problem of getting multiple negative cards in a row, which would be very demoralising.
  Any feedback on this would be welcomed.

Testers it’s that time again

Tell me:

• How fast you will go
• How long you will go
• How many gels you will consume
• And if you want to rest, how long you will rest for

You will have until 12 noon tomorrow NZ time to get your responses in.

Interested to see what this is all about?

Check out the previous rounds:

• Round one – and results
• Round two – and results

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Running Deer - part 1
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