cwru-hvz-core / cwru-hvz-source

Case Western's Implementation of a Humans vs. Zombies tracking engine.
http://hvz.case.edu/
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Re-work points system #65

Open jameshochadel opened 7 years ago

jameshochadel commented 7 years ago

"Points don't matter," but that doesn't mean they can't be improved! This epic encompasses any changes to how points work on the site.

tdooner commented 7 years ago

Fun fact, here is a 2011 spreadsheet I used to design/spot check the original system to see how it worked:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M8-pk82jKibTIrIyrMv7uSN0lzMCNAsOgbShlBUznhA/edit?usp=sharing

I think I used the results from the previous semester to calculate an hourly difficulty of surviving that long... but then I'm not exactly sure how that resulted in the existing system.

jameshochadel commented 7 years ago

Ah, thank you! This'll be really helpful.