Re: Scores in Gnome mines.

[Nate Riffe <inkblot goose inkblot ml org>]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, 21 May 1998, Bruno Widmann wrote:
>
>> >   files named gnomine.10x10x1.scores or something like this. Is it
>> > possible to have 
>> >   just one file for scores in custom mode and record the height, width
>> > and number of
>> >   mines in the score file instead, or should we just forget about scores
>> > in this mode?
>> > 
>> 
>> yep, store that, and do the ranking after some formula, like
>> 
>>              width*height (of Minefield)
>> Ranking =   ----------------------------
>>               time-needed to clear it
>
>What about number of mines? I don't think there's any good way to make
>score list in custom mode..


SCORE = Density of mines / Time to clear
Density of mines = Number of mines / Area of field
Area of field = width * height

Then, instead of having separate high scores list for each size/number of
mines kind of playing field, have one high scores list where everyone is
ranked by score, that is, find a way to calculate a score from the playing
conditions and the time (like the one above), then rank the scores rather
than rank the times.

>
>Btw, what about that gnomine patch someone put here some days ago, why
>wasn't it put to cvs? The one where first click finds a good startup
>place.. I think that was a good idea at least and seemed to work, don't
>know how good the code itself was :)
>
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