Please send entries to JKW with the subject line "KOFACOTO Round 2"
for round 2 entries.

Alright everyone, here's the rules for KOFACOTO Round 2:

Round 1 was pretty straightforward... in round 2 I decided to come up with something
a little less conventional...

This will be a multiwarrior melee round.

The warriors will be run in '88 rules under pmars with settings as follows:
pmars -8 -s 8000 -c 80000 -p 8 -l 100 -d 100 -= (S<3)*(W*W-1)/S

Note the process limit is 8, not 8000.
And the scoring formula has changed.

Assuming more than 8 entries are given to me, warriors will be run in groups of 8.
Running all possible combinations of 8 may not be possible.  I just checked on my
calculator, and 8 C 12 is already 495, heh, so I'll run a representative sample
and avg scores.

Highest score will again recieve 1000 pts, with others indexed to that score.

Updates:

Anyway, the pmars standard scoring system, which is what I will be using,
awards roughly 63/S pts for each surviving warrior, where S is the number
that survived.

80000 cycles / 8000 locations * 1/8c means an 8 process imp ring will travel
around the core 1.25 times in the course of a match...  This means imps and
imp rings will not have a chance to survive any simple gates... but don't
let that influence your warriors. :)


Update:

Ok Robert Macrae has expressed heartfelt despair over the scoring system for Round 2.
He believes everyone will submit warriors of pure defense, that will prevent any spiffy
offensive strategies.

As I have not yet recieved any Round 2 submissions, I'm open to changing the score
system to the following formula: (S<3)*(W*W-1)/S

This will only register any points for rounds in which either 1 or 2 warriors
survived.  Rounds in which 3+ warriors survived will result in no points for anyone.

pmars -8 -s 8000 -c 80000 -p 8 -l 100 -d 100 -= (S<3)*(W*W-1)/S

Warriors will still be run in multiwarrior groups of 8.

Round 2 entries are due Sunday the 22nd, midnight CST.

I was asked if you can submit more than one warrior again... yes, but
only the last one submitted will be run.