Hi MIF;

I need more firepower! Best score 13.

New high, 18.

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This was an absolute bloodbath...horrible to see!

I couldn't watch it all and had to avert my eyes from the slaughter to avoid the nightmares.

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Thanks guys. Will add improvements as time permits. Working on a "freeze" weapon (because cold does indeed slow down germs).

Looks like we need something to slow down phrontister! That is a very big 704 there.

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Yes, 704 is the max for the set of germs in this version. And a map where you can get good shooting coverage (like that one) is ideal.

I could make the germs more random.

I am experimenting with the freeze weapon, but it just seems to reduce the strategy to putting all weapons where the freeze happens. I was hoping it would broaden the strategy.

Hi MathsIsFun,

Thanks for a nice game - I'm enjoying it. Looking forward to seeing the improvements.

Hi Bobby,

After reading Wolfram's Bayesian analysis article I'm not at all surprised at your low score from relying on that wobbly technique.

The article abounds with uncertainnesses, such as "endeavors", "estimate", "observed distribution", "may be based on anything", "assessment", "relative likelihoods", "observations",  "in practice" (so they're still practising?!!), "it is common to assume", "appropriate range", "normalize", "probability", "confidence intervals", "inference" and "Bayesian analysis is somewhat controversial because the validity of the result depends on how valid the prior distribution is".

The article ends with "Bayesian analysis is used in the design of software filters to automatically detect and delete junk electronic mail (i.e., "spam")"...and we all know how successful that is (not)!

I reckon that if the author took all those wobbly expressions and their contexts, formed a 'ring of confidence' with them on a large enough sheet of paper and then cut out the circle, I'd be able to drive a truck through the hole.

Of course, I may have misunderstood the article entirely, because the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease score for the first two paragraphs is 12.3 (which is about 80 away from what I can cope with), while its Grade Level is 16.8 (which is way above my level of 'achievement').

All that aside, the positions of the soaps and iodine in my last post's 'slow-down' version are the first and final...no relocations were necessary during the game.

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so:

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Hi all;

I found that out early on, and so I cheated by choosing helpful maps to get the good scores.

I guessed that. Lots of hairpin turns cause high casualties for the germs.

What I would like to see is no penalty for moving the soap or iodine. What I do not get is the big range of the iodine bottle. Seems that the actual kill zone is much smaller making it ineffective.

Hi MIF;

That will help, thanks.

Hi MIF;

Scores are down a little but it is working fine. This is level 3.

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-2652?

ahhhhh negative 146

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