complete works of sluggo VIII

Article 71                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: parting shot
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/04

In article ,
spinnwebe@thoughtport.com (SpinnWebe) wrote:

>
>(used to be "zweblo")
>

Hey, does this mean the commercial version will come packaged with a free
bumper sticker?

slugmonkey


Article 72                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Bolo and ThoughtPort
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/04

In article ,
jgoodma1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Joseph Goodman) wrote:

>"cool new features" ("grenades! nuclear bombs! airplanes!..."),

I agree with HB, it would be really cool to have grenades, nuclear bombs,
and airplanes in Bolo.  Also, I think the LGM should have a motorcycle
with a side car to carry extra trees and grenades.

slugmo


Article 73                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Euro Player Trashes US best
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/05

In article <4a1sl5$7g0@nrel.nrel.gov>, Carl R. Osterwald
 wrote:

>In article <4a1mbl$k05@brahms.udel.edu> Alan Lee McElrath,
>mcelrath@brahms.udel.edu writes:
>
>>I've seen Sev, Sam, Guy,
>>and that dude on the fucking modem from UIUC waltz over me too many
>>times like they was stirring the batter for the cake walk.
>
>hehe--vert rox.  So does Deadsy.  But go ahead and play sluggo or
>xavvvvy, they are pushovers.

I agree, sluggo and xav both sux rox.  

DeathMangler(tm)


Article 74                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Bolo bumper stickers (was Re: parting shot)
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/05

In article <4a25fc$jek@lace.colorado.edu>, masher@euclid.Colorado.EDU (The
Forces of Evil) wrote:

>In article ,
>Charles H. Dillon  wrote:
>>In article ,
>>spinnwebe@thoughtport.com (SpinnWebe) wrote:
>>>
>>>(used to be "zweblo")
>>>
>>
>>Hey, does this mean the commercial version will come packaged with a free
>>bumper sticker?
>>slugmonkey
>
>        Mmmm, what would be a good slogan?
>
>                I break for Bolo! (nah...)
>
>        Lesee...
>
>                I'm on the pill! (better...)
>
>        heh...
>        Masher
>

Actually, I was referring to the "My Other Car is a Bolo Tank" bumper
stickers that zweblo had made up a couple years ago.

slugmo


Article 75                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Ye Days of Old...
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/07

In article <4a7pft$qm4@oldfart.ecl.wustl.edu>, "Carey P. Morris"
 wrote:

>You would think someone would remember me after just one year.
>
>(Pooh, MegaWatt?)
>
>Lucitus

Lucy who?


Article 76                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: If it means anything...
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/08

In article <4aal17$2ad@jan.et.byu.edu>, chaov@caedm.et.byu.edu (chaov) wrote:

>Anyway, my setup is:
>
>   E
>  SDF     For driving
>
>  Q and  for tank view and pillbox view
>
>   for shoot
>
>  / and * on keypad for gunsite in/out
>   on keypad for mine
>
>  I drive and shoot with my left hand.  My right hand is free to scroll
>with arrow keys, use mouse, lay mines, and adjust gunsites.  I got the
>gunsite adjustment keys from essence.  It seems good to me because the
>buttons you need in quickly (like to mine and adjust gunsites) are easy
>to find in a hurry and are close to all the other keys that your right
>hand uses.  Plus, it allows me to adjust gunsites while turning around
>and stuff.  PB&J uses the same setup except he likes to use the a and z
>keys to adjust gunsites, The problem is I can't get my pinky
>coordinated enough to allow 3 fingers on my left hand to press 3
>different buttons all at the same time (and neither can he ;)  ). I
>dunno, maybe if i use the keypad 8456 to scroll instead of the arrow
>keys may be helpful, too, but I'm too lazy to change =).
>
>- Montezuma's Revenge

I use :

W - accel
S - decel
A - left turn
D - right turn
Q - extend gunsight
E - shorten gunsight
space - shoot
shift - mine
KPD Enter - tank view
KPD . - pill view

Also, with 0.99.5 and later, Stuart added the feature that you can have
two keys defined for 1 function.  By command-clicking on the key
definition you can define "secondary keys".  I have a secondary set of
gunsight controls defined on the keypad.  Normally I do all tank controls
with my left hand and mouse with the right.  I also scroll with the arrow
keys and hit tank/pill view incessantly with my right hand.  If I am in a
situation where I know I won't need to build (or would most likely lose my
builder if I did) and I am expecting an enemy builder to come within range
(for a spike, etc.) I can use the secondary gunsight keys on the keypad
for better accuracy.

slugmo


Article 77                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Why Swarthmore Rewls?
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/12

In article <4al48d$2pv@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, chwang@void (chris hwang) wrote:

>i've been confused about this almost the whole time that i've been playing
>bolo...  when was the first release?
>
>the bolo version history says... 
>
>"Dangerous" version. Wednesday 22nd April 1992. First (semi)public release.
>
>is that right?  why do all these people claim to have been playing before
>this date?  (check the people page for more examples).
>
>i mean, i know that time flies when you are having fun, but 3 years!?!?!?
>anyone shed any light on this?
>
>vert

I have been playing since about 1100 BC.  We didn't have computers then,
but it worked just as well rubbing two sticks together or throwing rocks. 


sluggosaurus


Article 78                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Bolo Tips
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/13

In article ,
masushige@courier3.aero.org (Samhain) wrote:

>2.  Spin your tank, just spin.  I don't think that violates any sense of fair
>play.

I agree, this is the single most valuable piece of Bolo advice that I have
ever seen posted.  Spinning is the key.

slugmo


Article 79                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Bolo learning project
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/13

Check out

http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~intille/inducting_indy.html


-- 
Andy Wilson
Perceptual Computing Section
MIT Media Laboratory

20 Ames St.
Cambridge MA 02139
617.253.0381
http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~drew/


Article 80                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: xxxx's defining the term "Bolo God"
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1995/12/13

In article ,
(Jolo) wrote:

>Not yet.  See my other post in this thread, Bob.  The most objective
>Elo-style ranking system is the one by Sluggo, where he started out with
>uniform ratings and varied them according to who beat whom over the last 2
>IBL seasons.  In spite of the many games played since then, I am still
>ranked above such players as vert and tempest, which let's just say is
>ludicrous.  

Actually, you were ranked well below vert and tempest.  I think you might
be thinking of the numbers based on fall games only (in which vert and
tempest participated in far fewwer games, and in which you went 3-0
several times after placing yourself in divisions with opponents of far
lesser skill and experience).  The system I was using was really just a
least squares estimator, and wasn't based on the Elo system at all,
although initial estimates and variances were selected to produce outputs
similar to that of the Elo system.


>In an unpublished spam to #bolo, Sluggo revealed that a
>typical rating of 1700 has an error bar of approximately plus or minus 300
>points.  I believe that is down from only 400 points back at game 0.  So
>at a decreasing rate as IBL approaches "steady state", it should only take
>until 2010 or so before the ratings reflect true skill, assuming I'm still
>playing bolo 15 years from now.
>
>Joseph Lo (Jolo)

Well, considering that each player plays a maximum of about 3 games per
week in the IBL system, this is potentially true.  The "error bar" you
refer to is largely dependent on what level of accuracy is placed on the
outcome of the game, and can be adjusted to reduce the variance at a
greater rate.  Either way, to have a rating which more accurately reflects
a players ability, it would be necessary to include many more games
against a wider variety of opponents than the sampling that was used to
determine the IBL ratings.  The biggest flaw with applying the system that
I was using to the IBL results is that the IBL is structured so that
players basically play within the same groups every week, so that it is
possible that one player may have a winning record against weak opponents
and have an artificially high rating while another may have a losing
record against strong opponents and have an artificially low rating. 
However, Cat_Butt's rating is accurate.

sloggu