The members of this set are known as prize contenders, or simply as contenders. Initially, player Y and the p contestants other than player Y who have the highest scores in the contest comprise the contention set for prize p.

Let p be the scoring position of the prize being sought: 1, 2, 3, etc. Player Y’s current score in the contest is called y and the score that he needs to guarantee that he wins the prize he is after or better is called y’.įor every prize there is a corresponding contention set.

The subject of this article is a contestant we call player Y. Open = goal - total forge points contributed so far Īnother way to define open is that it is the number of forge points available for contestants to add to their scores before the Great Building levels.

Let goal stand for the total number of forge points that are required to raise the Great Building to its next level and let open be the number of forge points that remain to be contributed before that happens. We need a few basic definitions to start with. The paper does not address more general questions such as the best timing of forge point contributions or the choice of the best prize. This paper takes an adaptive approach in which the score needed to win a given prize is calculated as the contest develops. It is important to understand that locking in a given prize does not prevent you from eventually winning a bigger one. We will explain the idea of prize contenders and the contention set in a little bit. When this happens the contestant is guaranteed to eventually win the given prize or better.

A tactic that is sometimes used by experienced contestants in the Great Building contests to win a given prize is to contribute a block of forge points so large that too few forge points will remain available (at the Building’s present level) to allow all the other contenders for that prize to beat the contestant’s score.

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