Mexican Standoff Thread Necromancy

somitomi · Post by **somitomi** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:38 am

Let's resurrect another one while I have the satanic ritual stuff out: in this one time is gained quadratically rather than linearly, that is, your score is the number of minutes since the last post squared. Otherwise normal necromancy rules apply.

Edit: renamed according to information from our Keeper of Scores.

heuristically_alone · Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:46 am

Let's get exponentially large.

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:01 pm

I would think a game titled "exponential thread necromancy" would have scores go up exponentially.

somitomi · Post by **somitomi** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:06 pm

It's possible I mixed something up. I remembered a game where scores went up quadratically and connected it (perhaps erroneously) to the Thread Necromancy: Exponential edition preserved on a topiclist. The actual thread wasn't archived by the Wayback Machine sadly. Maybe chridd knows which way these threads were scored...

heuristically_alone · Post by **heuristically_alone** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:02 pm

quasijem · Post by **quasijem** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:32 pm

I think there was also an exponential one? There was some post thread with almost no posts and like 10^150 score in it iirc.

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:19 pm

I think the quadratic one was the Mexican Standoff Edition.

chridd · Post by **chridd** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:05 pm

*checks* Yes it was.

Exponential was floor(2[sup]# of days (unrounded)[/sup]), which I made a scorekeeper for but didn't link to on the list of scorekeepers because I couldn't get bignum stuff working right.

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:00 pm

Honestly, the exponential version might as well be the same as the non-cumulative version.

heuristically_alone · Post by **heuristically_alone** » Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:30 am

We are all non cumulative.

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:53 pm

quasijem · Post by **quasijem** » Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:17 pm

ye sure points

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:55 am

I have no idea what the current scores are.

chridd · Post by **chridd** » Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:13 am

*makes another note on my mental to-do list*

somitomi · Post by **somitomi** » Wed Sep 22, 2021 6:33 pm

hopefully this gets some points

heuristically_alone · Post by **heuristically_alone** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:47 am

Wassup doc.

chridd · Post by **chridd** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:56 am

https://chridd.nfshost.com/fg/rc-standoff

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:30 pm

Hmm. I'd really like to get into first place with this but I don't want anybody stealing it.

chridd · Post by **chridd** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 5:58 pm

This should put me ahead one place

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:00 am

And this should put me into first place

chridd · Post by **chridd** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:02 am

Some more points

Post by **The Snide Sniper** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:04 pm

Lots of points.

somitomi · Post by **somitomi** » Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:38 am

oooh, 20 hours is a lot of time

quasijem · Post by **quasijem** » Sat Sep 25, 2021 3:28 pm

mmmmm i'll take 350^2-ish points

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