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dscruffy1 posted:Counterpoint: Dio's a jerk. And only jerks like him vote betray. Pierzak posted:I want to see the system autopick Betray on Alice's side because of an obscure rule that wasn't explained clearly enough Alice somehow screws us over via telekinesis.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 14:38 |
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Rith posted:Whether we ally or betray, we'll still be two betrayals away from death, so betraying has no survival advantages here. It makes more sense to ally, regardless of the moral aspect, because the only way to make any gain in the AB game is if your opponent allies. In future rounds, nobody's going to vote 'ally' against someone who betrayed an unconscious opponent. What? we're at ONE BP! If by some chance we get betrayed while we pick Ally we will in fact, die.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 14:40 |
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Yes, but in this round our opponent is unconscious and will auto-ally. So if we ally, we'll be at 3 BP. If we betray, we'll be at 4 BP. Either way, we'll be safe from death for at least the next round after this one - even if betrayed there. Playing the long game is a good idea here. Also, everyone else is totally gonna hit betray anyhow, so if we ally we get to be smug about it
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 14:57 |
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Onmi posted:What? we're at ONE BP! If by some chance we get betrayed while we pick Ally we will in fact, die. Completely failed to express myself clearly there; sorry! I was talking about our situation after this round. As Alice is unconscious and therefore guaranteed to ally, we'd end up with three points if we allied and four if we betrayed. Having four points doesn't really give us a striking survival advantage, though, because being betrayed twice with four points leaves you just as dead as someone who was betrayed twice with three.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 14:58 |
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ApplesandOranges posted:I actually don't see the logic of Allying with Alice here; yes she's unconscious, but she has no leverage over us like Dio did and Sigma's on 1 BP. I disagree - even at the risk of Alice voting betray somehow (waking up, morphogenic field, some obscure rule, somehow voting before passing out, etc) , the simple fact is that by all logic she is expected to be helpless and vote Ally. Not just by Sigma, but by everyone. Think about what everyone else would think of you if you voted Betray, with everyone having full knowledge that it should be impossible for Alice to do anything but default to Ally. Can you really break Luna's heart like that? Can you really act as bad as Dio with that angel watching over your shoulder?
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 15:10 |
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Morphogenetic choice: It doesn't matter what we pick. We can always go back and see the other option.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 15:52 |
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Rith posted:Completely failed to express myself clearly there; sorry! I was talking about our situation after this round. As Alice is unconscious and therefore guaranteed to ally, we'd end up with three points if we allied and four if we betrayed. Having four points doesn't really give us a striking survival advantage, though, because being betrayed twice with four points leaves you just as dead as someone who was betrayed twice with three. Wait, need to clear up that ruling. Is it 0 or below and you die? or below 0? Because if it's the latter than yes, allying or betraying doesn't matter. if it's the former, betrayal is the superior option because it gives you the two-round buffer. And we never known when we'll be stuck with Dio who I STILL expect to betray Phi.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 15:55 |
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I'm pretty sure it's zero and below.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 15:56 |
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Onmi posted:Wait, need to clear up that ruling. Is it 0 or below and you die? or below 0?
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 16:16 |
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Rith posted:Whether we ally or betray, we'll still be two betrayals away from death, so betraying has no survival advantages here. It makes more sense to ally, regardless of the moral aspect, because the only way to make any gain in the AB game is if your opponent allies. In future rounds, nobody's going to vote 'ally' against someone who betrayed an unconscious opponent. On the other hand, Alice betrayed Sigma first, and called him an idiot for allying. Turnabout is fair play. When she was conscious, she wasn't a nice person, why should we give a poo poo just because she's unconscious? I doubt we could trust her if she was awake.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 16:23 |
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:On the other hand, Alice betrayed Sigma first, and called him an idiot for allying. Turnabout is fair play. When she was conscious, she wasn't a nice person, why should we give a poo poo just because she's unconscious? I doubt we could trust her if she was awake. Because we're a video game protagonist
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 16:28 |
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Sentient Data posted:I disagree - even at the risk of Alice voting betray somehow (waking up, morphogenic field, some obscure rule, somehow voting before passing out, etc) , the simple fact is that by all logic she is expected to be helpless and vote Ally. Not just by Sigma, but by everyone. I'm guessing people would think, 'Well he's on 1 BP and Alice is safe anyway, it's understandable.' If Alice was on the death knell, sure, but otherwise Allying when you're one Betray away from dying and your opponent can afford a hit isn't exactly smart without taking moralities into account.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 16:33 |
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Eye for an eye is a pretty good simple strategy for Prisoner's Dilemma, but only because it ends up in a situation where everyone betrays all the time (while still leaving open the possibility of a double ally in the first round). Voting to betray Alice is voting for a strategy that gets us stuck here forever. Also, Alice said that allying was stupid in the context of the other person being able to vote. It was a defensive betrayal, implying she didn't trust you. If you're at no risk whatsoever, like we presumably are now, what's stupid and what's smart can change. We have not heard Alice's explicit opinion on this situation.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 17:22 |
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ApplesandOranges posted:I'm guessing people would think, 'Well he's on 1 BP and Alice is safe anyway, it's understandable.' Ignoring everything else, it shows other people that we're likely to Ally, thus giving them incentive to Ally with us in return.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 17:39 |
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Of course I allied, I couldn't possibly betray Luna's expectations Yep that's the reason
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 18:15 |
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tiistai posted:Of course I allied, I couldn't possibly betray Luna's expectations When I played, that was pretty much my reasoning for every one of my initial AB decisions: what would Luna think?
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 18:32 |
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I see this ending poorly when it turns out Luna is NOT WHO SHE PRESENTS HERSELF TO BE. She's Zero IV and she manufactured the virus.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 18:43 |
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tiistai posted:Of course I allied, I couldn't possibly betray Luna's expectations Same, plus everyone else is saying they'll Ally so it would end up being funny if we were the only one who actually did. Also, this: Shei-kun posted:Everyone's voting that we pick Ally. Picking Betray and then seeing Alice's reaction (since she was given the Axelavir, there's a chance she'll be recovered enough to talk again soon) will be fun too though.
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 19:55 |
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Pierzak posted:I want to see the system autopick Betray on Alice's side because of an obscure rule that wasn't explained clearly enough
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# ? Jan 27, 2014 21:40 |
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I wonder if anyone but Dio is ever actually going to get a chance to kill someone by betraying.
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 03:46 |
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Zoe posted:I wonder if anyone but Dio is ever actually going to get a chance to kill someone by betraying. He already did...I think?
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 04:07 |
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Spretznaz posted:He already did...I think?
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 04:50 |
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Well dammit. Guess I'll learn to read someday...
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 05:00 |
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Dio has 5 points though, so hitting Betray won't necessarily get him out sooner.
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 06:29 |
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Pringles Monster posted:Dio has 5 points though, so hitting Betray won't necessarily get him out sooner. not like that has stopped him in the past (I just imagined but with Dio and Betray)
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 07:48 |
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Honestly, it's probably a good thing that Alice is down and out for this round, because otherwise there'd be no possible choice except Betray. Although in that situation, Alice would know that Sigma would only pick Betray, so she'd just pick Betray as well, so that her points wouldn't fall. In short, the only way for our points to rise at all in this situation is for Alice to be incapacitated.
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 19:24 |
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NextTime000 posted:not like that has stopped him in the past (I just imagined but with Dio and Betray)
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 20:00 |
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This is probably the best thing to come from Dio being a hateful jerk.
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 21:26 |
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I'm torn. With the hat like that it looks like a fedora, but if you made it taller it would look like Professor Layton.
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 21:31 |
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Nice. Now all we need is a Luna smiley constantly pressing "ALLY". (Luna's always picked Ally so far, right?)
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 22:19 |
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Poll's closed at a very nice round number. Ally wins.
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# ? Jan 28, 2014 23:38 |
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DaveWoo posted:(Luna's always picked Ally so far, right?) So far, yes.
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# ? Jan 29, 2014 04:30 |
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DaveWoo posted:Nice. Now all we need is a Luna smiley constantly pressing "ALLY". So like this?
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# ? Jan 29, 2014 12:00 |
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71% of 400 voters chose to Ally. Results will be displayed in the warehouse. Thank you for your participation. Ambidex Gates now opening. Okay. Please direct your attention to the results screen. Fedule fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Feb 1, 2014 |
# ? Jan 30, 2014 01:11 |
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So, hey, remember how I said this was the "Alice is a hateful jerkface path" back after the first vote? This is why. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jan 30, 2014 |
# ? Jan 30, 2014 01:12 |
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Ahahaha I love this part. FUUUUUUCK YOUUUU says the game as it points to its title.
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# ? Jan 30, 2014 01:14 |
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Well, thread?
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# ? Jan 30, 2014 01:14 |
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But she's unconscious what the heck?
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# ? Jan 30, 2014 01:14 |
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This is what you get for trusting Luna.
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# ? Jan 30, 2014 01:18 |
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 00:53 |
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She faked being out of it and snuck into her polling booth when nobody was looking? EDIT: Also I love how literally everyone betrayed everyone else - not that Tenmyouji and Phi can be blamed for it, since they're both at a 1.
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