From: hwloidl@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Hans Wolfgang Loidl)
Subject: Final Game Announcement: The RISCy GB
Organization: RISC, J.K. University of Linz, Austria
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:26:59 GMT

Dear Friends!

Now that I've got a bunch of responses to my first announcement
of the RISCy GB on Tue this week in this newsgroup it's time
for the final announcement including the update schedule and
the official Call for Race Submission.

The Update Schedule:

The times given here are local to the server. The time zone
of the server is MST (Middle European Daylight-Saving Time),
which is GMT +1. 
The official start of the game is on Tue Sept. 1, 12 a.m. (at noon
not at midnight of course).

Tue Sept. 1 : 12 a.m. -  2 p.m.    15 min updates (1 seg/update)
               2 p.m. - 12 p.m.    30 min updates (1 seg/update)
Wed Sept. 2 :  0 a.m. -  6 p.m.     1 hour updates (1 seg/update)

Thu Sept. 3 : 11 a.m., 5 p.m.       2 updates per day


Comments:
I want to start with as many updates as possible to get an interesting 
game after the first 2 days of playing. So, every race leader should be
online during at least the first 2 hours of the game. 
I am aware that players from the US can hardly be online during the first
few hours. Therefore, I have decided to keep the game running during the
first night. This should balance the fairness  between players from
Europe and the US such that all have about the same chances after the first 
24 hours of playing. 
As I don't want to make an endless game out of it, the update schedule
shows 2 updates per day from Thu on. This rate should be kept till the
end of the game.
In general, weekends will be included in the schedule.


CALL FOR RACE SUBMISSION

Everybody who is interested in playing the game and who thinks that he can
keep the update schedule as described above should design a race via 
`racegen' and send it to: hwloidl@risc.uni-linz.ac.at.
The header file `game_info.h' that contains the game specific information
of the RISCy GB (including the above email address) can be fetched from
our local anonymous FTP server:

  Machine:   melmac.risc.uni-linz.ac.at
  Directory: /pub/misc/GalBlood

I'll also put the racegen.c sources (as it is fetched from scam.berkeley.edu)
there, for those who haven't fetched that program already. 
NOTE: The files are in the dir /pub/misc/GalBlood, NOT in the dir /pub/GB.
      Probably you don't know what `Gr"obner Bases' are, but at our
      institute GB is the shortcut for these `Gr"obner Bases' and not
      for Galactic Bloodshed.

Deadline for the submission of races is Mon Aug. 31, 5 p.m.
The game will consist of 20 races (and 50 stars with 6-10 planets per
star). If there are more than 20 submissions
those people who have already applied for race leadership via email
this week will be preferred. Otherwise, the famous first-come-first-serve
rule will be applied.

However, everybody who can only partially keep the above update schedule and
therefore doesn't send in a race or who doesn't submit for other reasons
is warmly welcome to apply for governorship (especially newbies should
consider this opportunity). To apply for governorship during the game is
running log into the game as guest (I will install several guest accounts)
and post either a message in the Galactic News or directly send a telegram
to a player in which you ask for being appointed as a governor.

I hope this clarifies all questions. However, if somebody still has 
a question or a comment either send me email or try to log into
the test game that is currently running under the same address/port
as the RISCy GB and see if I'm logged in.

Now, for those who don't know it yet, again the address and port of the
RISCy GB:

             melmac.risc.uni-linz.ac.at  2010

Lets have a nice game!!

Greetings,
-- 

                                    Hans Wolfgang Loidl
                                 hwloidl@risc.uni-linz.ac.at

                                           aka
                       
                                           HWL

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