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To: [Alison], [Ororo]
From: [Scott]
Subject: Nathan

We just about had a fairly significant problem this morning; he came within about two minutes of beating that scenario. Yes, that would have been the D734-beta scenario that was scheduled for this morning - I didn't slip up and give him a milk run by mistake, believe me. He had the damned thing 98% complete before I started throwing in new variables trying to slow him down. Hurray for improvisation. He wound up tripping the Room safeties - not the ideal conclusion, I know.

If he beats one of these scenarios, it's not just going to defeat the purpose of putting him through all this in the first place, it's probably going to set him back in a big way. Maybe irretrievably, since even if that happened we couldn't precisely explain what we were doing, and all he'd see are the Mistra-like tactics.

So. Ideas?

Scott

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To: [Scott], [Ororo]
From: [Alison]
Subject: re: Nathan

...let me review the scenario. Either I messed up something in the randomising algorithm or it was pure dumb luck and he stumbled over a pattern of some sort in there long enough to get somewhere. Or something. Gah.

Alison

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Well, I don't know what happened, but we need to make sure it doesn't happen again. He got that far awfully fast, too. Considerably faster than he should have.

I've got full tape on it, obviously. We may need to crank it up several notches for Tuesday.

Scott

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To play Devil's Advocate here.... are we sure we want to crank things higher?

We've been pushing a fair deal, since this all started.

Ororo

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Unless something goes very wrong, I think we have to see this through. And if it means cranking things higher to keep them on track, rather than blowing up in our faces, we have to do it.

Scott

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Can't stop now. Well, if we do.... gah. The next scenario will take this into account.

So. I'll finish reviewing this and then maybe we can talk a bit about it after my own training session?

Alison

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Let me know if you need some help redesigning it.

And yes, Alison, can do... I'll see you down there.

Scott