Formula 2 - Apolyton

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Drogue
Rah has 18 spaces left. If he accelerates with both his wildcards he'll be moving at 11 next turn, and 12 the turn after. So next turn he will have 7 spaces to go, moving at a speed of 12, and so will cross the finish line in 1 and 7/12 turns, or 1.583 turns.

Spaced Cowboy has 15 spaces left. If he accelerates with his remaining wildcard he'll be moving at 9 next turn, and 10 the turn after. So next turn he will have 6 spaces to go, moving at a speed of 10, and so will cross the finish line in 1 and 6/10 turns, or 1.6 turns.

Therefore, Rah will cross the finish line first.

Thanks for working that out for me. I was planning on doing something similar.
So, now its a fight for the bronze medal!

[Drogue]

Sent I think the bronze medal is decided

[Skanky Burns]

True. I can't even threaten you with oil-slicks anymore, as Rah revealed the last one this round.

[Spaced Cowboy]

No sense in pm'ing,

right, accel, m^10

And that last oilslick was lame; there is no way to get a crash on that one, and it robbed me of the block.

[rah]

Yes, you are correct, but I pm'd them anyway.

They were right accelerate.

Let's see were the last oil patch was.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Rah, you hit it on the last run and it moved you right by one square (I think). Good game, I played it way to cautious.

[rah]

Yes, from the worst starting place.

But almost everyone had to crash for it to happen.

Luck beats skill.

[Jonny]

No reason for me to continue racing, but...

Accelerate straight, and hope that there's about 20 oil slicks sitting in front of the finish line.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Actually just found out that you had a lot more than luck. Apparently the GM kept you in the game by doing a reroll on an oilslick; the first roll had you crash and burn. It is his game and his call though.

[Drogue]

He did that for Jamski too though, because he thought crashing out on an oil slick the first time was too unlucky. I sympathise quite a bit, I wouldn't want to do that either.

[Skanky Burns]

Yeah, when placing the oil I didn't forsee people hitting them at those sort of speeds and thus being killed just by pure luck. Which is why I support oil-slicks (if included) being visible from the start and only things like sandtraps (slow you down by one) being hidden.

They were supposed to increase the challenge level somewhat, not to kill randomly.

[Drogue]

I agree with Skanky

[Spaced Cowboy]

Skanky, np, it is just a game.

I was just pointing out that if you had been a stickler, then I would have won. 2nd, is fine however. I was your call to make and you did it fairly.

I would like to see a more curvy track to keep the speeds down. It would also be nice to see the whole track so that you could get some type of strategy going.

I like the sand pits and the oil. Perhaps if we let the person run off the track, one move to get back on and start the next turn at speed 0 instead of the kill?

SC

[Skanky Burns]

Well, I guess that's that then.

First place: Rah
Second place: Spaced Cowboy
Third place: Drogue

Many thanks to all who took part.
Looks like it is Rah's turn to host the next game.

[rah]

Just got back from vegas and catching up at work, so it'll take me a just a bit to set up the track and get it ready. Patience. When I'm ready I'll set up a sign up thread.