Steemit Ultra marathon – Test game, round three results
Oh, it's all on now! Here are the results from round three of the test game.
| Pos | Name | Distance | Details |
| 1 | @nathen007 Bib: 0004 | 28.86kms | Gels: 2 Health:  Weird stuff happens on the trails There are some brightly colour mushrooms growing on the side of the track, intrigued, hopeful, you take a little nibble. Nothing happens. The little pixies on the branch by your head all say - "See, we told you so.", |
| 2 | @cyoadventuregame Bib: 0003 | 28.02kms | Gels: 5 Health:  You passed through an aid station and this replenished your supply of gels - adding 1, Weird stuff happens on the trails Out of nowhere a dog named 'Gobi' appears and shows you a short cut. This makes you faster but you now have sand in your shoes for some odd reason. |
| 3 | @len.george Bib: 0002 | 26.40kms | Gels: 2 Health:  You passed through an aid station and this replenished your supply of gels - adding 1, Weird stuff happens on the trails You walk for a bit to try and regain some strength. This costs you a little time but also reduces your fatigue. |
| 4 | @toofasteddie Bib: 0001 | 22.67kms | Gels: 1 Health:  You passed through an aid station and this replenished your supply of gels - adding 1, Weird stuff happens on the trails You get dive bombed by a magpie and run like crazy to get away. |
| 5 | @kiwiscanfly Bib: 0005 | 16.45kms | Gels: 0 Health:  Weird stuff happens on the trails You walk for a bit to try and regain some strength. This costs you a little time but also reduces your fatigue. |
Commentary
@nathen007 took a strategic walk and that reduced his fatigue levels, leaving him fresher to run again.
@cyoadventuregame struck some good luck with the WSH cards and is sitting right on @nathen007's shoulder. He'll be glad of that rest now. as he will need to push hard to get away from @cyoadventuregame.
@len.george is proving to be the dark horse, slowly working his way up to the leaders, while preserving his strength.
@toofasteddie is not far behind and pushing hard on @len.george's heels.
@kiwiscanfly is having a hard day at the office, and struggling now after going out way too hard at the start. Can he recover and come back strong?
Testers
This is proving interesting ;-)
It looks like the changes I made to the game engine are working. The rest functionality seems to be doing what it should. and thanks to @nathen007 requesting TWO actions this round, I can confirm that it is possible to do that. i.e. 1 hour resting, 1 hour running.
It wasn't something I had planned for, but the code handles it ok, So a nice bonus ;-)
And you can see that his health status this round is better than last round, even after running.
There is still something weird with the random number generator for the WSH cards. It seems to pick the same one twice each round. So a bit more work to do on that i think.
@kiwiscanfly - you are actually going backwards now! Your health stats are so bad the calculations are coming up with negative kilometers traveled. So I'll have to look into that. But this is actually really useful. (even though it might not be much fun for you)
It demonstrates what I wanted to happen if someone chose high values and kept pushing - they can't win that way. So you are doing a great job testing that scenario for me. Thank you. :-)
How are you guys feeling about the game for this round?
I'll put up the next post either later on this evening if I get time, or tomorrow morning.
Is the daily schedule working ok for you? Is it too slow / fast?
As a slightly interesting aside
The part of the course you are now running on, is that part I ran on over the weekend. Some good runnable bits in this, but some good hills too.
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Thanks for the help magpie!!!!
:)))
2 hours rest and about 30 gels :) - game is going well!
very informative post. I love it! Thank you @trevor.george
Thank you.
Some distance between first and last. I wanna see a comeback. Let the underdog win.
It's going to be interesting isn't it?
If @kiwiscanfly rests for the next turn he may recover enough to get back into the game. It will take a while to catch the others up, and it will depend on how well they manage their own damage, and if they rest or not.
But I think this is going quite well so far in terms of how the players are gaining or losing ground.
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Thanks
Lordy, you pick them up and I'll put them down, but don't go too fast as it takes great mental power to remember what I am supposed to do in here
The timing is good for me ! When you go live with the real game, it would be good to do the results and next round on the same post I think. Im enjoying this and look forward to it all going live :-)
Yeay for the dog :)))
The timing totally works for me, I think it's good, I too agree with Nathen, that when going live it might be good to have the result and the next round close to each other in time, but I think it's good to have them as separate posts.