[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Re : Group contests in HeroQuest 2

[Christopher Graves]

At the moment Imsa would almost be willing to commit a Hero Point to insure
acquiring her porters.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Sam Elliot <samlelliot at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Loran <aillet_l at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > The parallele with Economy is fascinating...
> > HP and money are both power quantification and I suppose this point is
> the eternal debate on "do we bet that peoples will be reasonable or not?"
>
> Yeah. It is no coincidence that 'game theory' is applicable to...a
> game. It isn't really a parallel. It is an application of a body of
> mathematical theory to economics; theory which was subsequently
> applied to biology (by an engineer), to the other social sciences, to
> computing...
>
> HP and money are both currencies. In biology, you have currencies such
> as energy expenditure.
> The marginal value theorem applies all round to choose the best
> strategy. Then you add interactors in games and choose the best
> strategy in the face of others' strategies.
>
> Sam.
>
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