[AT] Asking for help -- Tractor Pull Game

[David A. Laughead Jr.]

OOPS, I forgot to mention that I need to know the Tractor Make/Model, HP,
Tire Size, and Weight.

For Venues, I need to know what they call the pull, the city, and the state

Thanks
Dave Laughead
Arcanum, Ohio

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From: David A. Laughead Jr. <daljr at bright.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:46 AM
Subject: [AT] Asking for help -- Tractor Pull Game


> The tractor pull game is beginning to shape up. I thought it might be a
good
> idea to ask what tractors and venues some of you guys would like to see
> added to the game.
>
> Currently this is what I have in the game:
>
> Make/Model/HP/Tire Size/Weight
> "Allis Chalmers      ","B    ",23,24,2250
> "Allis Chalmers      ","CA   ",25,24,2850
> "Farmall             ","A    ",19,24,1870
> "John Deere          ","H    ",14,32,3000
> "Farmall             ","C    ",20,36,2800
> "Ford                ","9N   ",23,32,3375
> "Massey Harris       ","22   ",27,32,2900
> "Massey Harris       ","Pony ",11,24,1890
> "Allis Chalmers      ","WF   ",30,28,3510
> "Farmall             ","H    ",24,38,3725
>
> Venue/City/State/purse(I make these numbers up)
> "Old Fashioned Days       ","Arcanum        ","OH",300
> "Farm Power Of The Past   ","Greenville     ","OH",400
> "Ft Recovery Pull Off     ","Ft Recovery    ","OH",850
> "Brookville Fun Pull      ","Brookville     ","IN",200
> "ST Josephs Ox Roast Fair ","Mantua         ","OH",900
> "Wayne County Pull        ","Richmond       ","IN",550
>
> The lightest tractor the game will recognize is 1500 pounds the heaviest
> 6500 pounds. However adding in a 1500 pound tractor doesn't make much
since
> as it would never be able to win as it would be in the same class as the
> Allis B which weighs 2250(in this game anyway lol[see NOTE below])so a
1500
> pound tractor with 500 pounds of ballast still puts it under the base
weight
> of the B. The formula I came up with for the game is based off of weight,
> basically the more it weighs the further it goes. Yeah its really really
> really crude, but appears to work for the most part. Another thing I did
was
> use the BELT HP instead of the Drawbar HP just to make the numbers sound a
> shade more impressive. I am sure I have some of the numbers wrong if
anyone
> wants them fixed let me know what they should be I will try and fix it.
>
> I would like at this point to see around 20-25 tractors in the game and
> about the same ammount of Venues. I will have to work on the code before
> adding more because right now it can only show 1 screen of data if I had
too
> many, you wouldn't know what the options were at the top of the list.
>
> -- >> NOTE: I got the data from various books around here
> I beleive I got the AC B(ce engine) weight from Terry Deans AC databook
> which I don't think is overly accurate since it lists the AC RC weight as
> 4005lbs and the AC WC as 3300lbs
>
>
>
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