README.md (1270B)
1 # ti3-sampler [](https://github.com/jtobin/hnuts/blob/master/LICENSE) 2 3  4 5 Sample random board locations in a TI3 game. 6 7 Useful for e.g. setting domain counters only on some limited percentage of the 8 board. I find chocking the board full of domain counters slows the game down a 9 little too much, but you still want a few of them there for fun. A proportion 10 of about 0.275 tiles seems to strike a very good balance. 11 12 Supports three, four, five, and six player games. The tile coordinates are 13 just reported in terms of position on the nth ring of the board. North is one, 14 and then you just count clockwise from there. 15 16 This takes into account the different board configurations for different 17 players, and so doesn't sample home systems. Additionally, Mecatol Rex is 18 always included in the result. 19 20 For the three player game, just interpret the provided coordinates as if all 21 tiles were present on the board. 22 23 ## Usage 24 25 Just clone the repo, install [Stack](https://www.haskellstack.org/), and run 26 something like: 27 28 ``` 29 $ stack exec ti3-sampler 4 0.1 30 Outer 18 31 Outer 11 32 Mid 6 33 Rex 34 ``` 35 36 The first argument is the number of players -- the second is the desired tile 37 proportion. 38