Re: Taipan!

[deguzman@binkley.math.uiuc.edu (Alan DeGuzman)]

mls14@po.cwru.edu (Matthew Smith) writes:

>In article <VceaDc3w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>,
>philippe@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Philippe Benichou) wrote:

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>> If you want to become super-rich super-fast, go into NEGATIVE DEBT!!!!
>> All you have to do at the START of the game, is go in debt in 1 dollar 
>> (or whatever currency)... then repay as MUCH as you can afford.... IT 
>> will grow EXPONENTALLY.

>> P.S. You can withdraw the money at anytime, I think...

>     No, you can only "borrow" either half or double (I forget which) what
>you have cash on hand.  And you have to be in Hong Kong.  Plus when he
>wants $$ for the Sea Goddess or whatever, make sure you don't have any
>cash.  It will come out of the "debt."

What a great game! All of this discussion about it made me dig it up when I
went home to se my family for Thanksgiving. I taught my little sister to play
the game, and we had one game going for seven hours! My IIe bombed after the
my negative debt grew so large that (I suppose) it couldn't store the number!

We decided one our second game to keep the negative debt around -4 billion
dollars. Then we could withdraw enough to make our bank account grow without
killing the game.

Now if I could just find the time to finish my copy of Ultima V !

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Alan A. DeGuzman             Calculus&Mathematica Lab Manager
University of Illinois       Calculus&Mathematica Development Team
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