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Somberbrero posted:Everyone should be trying to outlast everyone else. Everyone should also be trying to break the code. That is true for everyone! Everyone should be playing that way! Trying to last to endgame is not unique to me or any other player! Ignoring the social game aspect isn't noble or sportsmanlike, it's just silly. This is the game as written. That's the problem; there's only an endgame if you don't try to solve the code. I'm not waiting for final two to try and solve the code, and as such I'm focusing on how I can work with other people to solve the code. You're focusing on how to play the social game to get to the final two, where you'll use whatever you've learned up to that point to try and win the final game.
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Thanatosian posted:I loving hate Third Way Democrats. Perhaps instead the team should be "The Truth Is In The Middle" Current Standings: The De Facto Alliance Power of Pecota merk Team Shriya Byers2142 Team Three Boots Rarity Somberbrero The Third Way Thanatosian MildManeredManikin winvirus Don't Want No Trouble ActingPower Strong Mouse Nevermore214 Seemingly Undecided EXAKT Science Hal Incandenza
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:13 |
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Byers2142 posted:That's the problem; there's only an endgame if you don't try to solve the code. I'm not waiting for final two to try and solve the code, and as such I'm focusing on how I can work with other people to solve the code. You're focusing on how to play the social game to get to the final two, where you'll use whatever you've learned up to that point to try and win the final game. Hey, I'd really like to solve the code. I'm going to be working on it throughout the game. You're right in that it's a little bit easier than I thought. Again, though, it just makes sense to try not to die while working on the code. Like, drat dude, I've been one of the most active players in this game so far. The thing is that we can't really talk about the code much until we have more information to work with, so I dunno what else you want to talk about. Every game has to start somewhere. If I said I was waiting until final two to play the game somewhere, that was based on a flawed understanding of the game and I am sorry for being wrong. However, I am pretty sure I never said that and you're just fabricating that point in order to have a convenient villain to rally against.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:20 |
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I'm just going to be "Team Guess Random Words" and shock everyone by winning tomorrow.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 18:24 |
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I'm playing game "ignore me while I win everything". It isn't going perfect yet, but it's sure to work out.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 19:25 |
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Hal Incandenza posted:I'm just going to be "Team Guess Random Words" and shock everyone by winning tomorrow. Hal do you want to be random guess buddies?
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 19:53 |
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EXAKT Science posted:Hal do you want to be random guess buddies? Yes, that would be AWESOME
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 20:43 |
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Strong Mouse posted:I'm playing game "ignore me while I win everything". It isn't going perfect yet, but it's sure to work out. Come join Team Fuckin Randos!
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 20:55 |
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EXAKT Science posted:Come join Team Fuckin Randos! I'm in. Let's win it all!
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Votecount for Day 1 Somberbrero (2): Byers2142, winvirus winvirus (2): Somberbrero, Rarity Byers2142 (1): Thanatosian Not Voting (8): ActingPower, EXAKT Science, Hal Incandenza, merk, MildManeredManikin, Nevermore214, Power of Pecota, Strong Mouse There are 13 living players. The elimination is based on a plurality vote! The current deadline is November 05th, 2014 at 9 p.m. EST -- that's in about 1 day, 4 hours.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 22:58 |
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MildManeredManikin posted:I would have but I think the UK is closed today It's called having a job
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:12 |
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Oh I'm sorry, I meant I would have but I think the UK has a job today.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:14 |
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Hal you should Contact Me tonight and I'll tell you my word !!
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:17 |
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winvirus posted:Hal you should Contact Me tonight and I'll tell you my word !! You're going to tell him your word just for contacting you?
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:23 |
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I am in Germany. I am flying back tomorrow.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:25 |
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Thanatosian posted:You're going to tell him your word just for contacting you? Well, I mean, the subtext is that we would share our words, mutually. We would still have leverage after that in regards to which position it is in. Each player gets two pieces of leverage: their word, and their position. Their word is much more valuable, since position can be bruteforced, but position can give you an end-game edge.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:51 |
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merk posted:I am in Germany. I am flying back tomorrow. Merk's word is GERMANY
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:51 |
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the best (worst??) breadcrumb
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:52 |
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Byers2142 posted:That's the problem; there's only an endgame if you don't try to solve the code. I'm not waiting for final two to try and solve the code, and as such I'm focusing on how I can work with other people to solve the code. You're focusing on how to play the social game to get to the final two, where you'll use whatever you've learned up to that point to try and win the final game. The problem with this strategy is that you're relying on every surviving player to have revealed their words. Do you really expect that's going to happen?
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:53 |
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Rarity posted:The problem with this strategy is that you're relying on every surviving player to have revealed their words. Do you really expect that's going to happen? It's certainly possible. What precludes it from happening? Someone bitterly withholding their word, maybe, or lying about their word, but both of those mean that player *must* get to the endgame, since otherwise others will similarly withhold information.
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:57 |
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Similarly withhold information from the perpetrator*
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# ? Nov 4, 2014 23:58 |
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winvirus posted:Similarly withhold information from the perpetrator* I appreciate this post because I realized I forgot about a rule! There is no editing of posts in the game. I appreciate that winvirus was in the spirit of the game by making his change in a subsequent post (which is totally fine). Adding to OP now!
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:02 |
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you know you've been in TG too long when you just start assuming any + every game bans editing of posts and just never do it out of habit
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:03 |
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Poque posted:I appreciate this post because I realized I forgot about a rule! There is no editing of posts in the game. I appreciate that winvirus was in the spirit of the game by making his change in a subsequent post (which is totally fine). Adding to OP now! I edit most of my posts at least 3-4 times. I will do my best to remember not to. I have totally done it in this thread already several times, though.
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:04 |
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Thanatosian posted:For real? Goddammit. ninja editing is mostly okay, especially if it's just for grammar/wording. Typical Trad Games rules have this in place so people can't deny having written stuff before.
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Poque posted:ninja editing is mostly okay, especially if it's just for grammar/wording. Typical Trad Games rules have this in place so people can't deny having written stuff before.
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Rarity posted:The problem with this strategy is that you're relying on every surviving player to have revealed their words. Do you really expect that's going to happen? My strategy revolves around sharing with people, if not full words than at least information about words, yes. If you look at my initial strategy post, the less likely someone is to share information, the more attractive they are to me as a vote.
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:12 |
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Thanatosian posted:Yeah, I can totally understand why. I'm just neurotic, and will have to suck it up and deal. If you look, you haven't done any edits yet in this thread that have stuck. Everyone ninjas for spelling and grammar.
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:13 |
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Byers2142 posted:If you look, you haven't done any edits yet in this thread that have stuck. Everyone ninjas for spelling and grammar. Again, I will pull through, somehow. The struggle is real.
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Byers2142 posted:My strategy revolves around sharing with people, if not full words than at least information about words, yes. If you look at my initial strategy post, the less likely someone is to share information, the more attractive they are to me as a vote. Except sharing information means nothing because it's meaningless info. I've already said a bunch about my word and there's still not a chance any of you will guess it. All you're doing is trying to gain allies by pretending to give them important info that doesn't actually matter.
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:18 |
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Rarity posted:Except sharing information means nothing because it's meaningless info. I've already said a bunch about my word and there's still not a chance any of you will guess it. All you're doing is trying to gain allies by pretending to give them important info that doesn't actually matter. Presumably, once things are private, Byers plans to share more in exchange for other peoples' information. I mean, you should still totally vote to eliminate him, but this isn't really a good reason why.
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:20 |
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Rarity posted:Except sharing information means nothing because it's meaningless info. I've already said a bunch about my word and there's still not a chance any of you will guess it. All you're doing is trying to gain allies by pretending to give them important info that doesn't actually matter. No, what I'm doing is offering them information that truly does matter in exchange for similar information from them, with the hope that I can use what I get before they can use what they get. This is what you and Somber both keep missing, I'm not building votes, I'm building a base of knowledge. Surviving is important, but still secondary to solving the drat code. To do that, I need to pay out real information to get real information back. winvirus is planning something very similar, I think. Note that we've both independently mentioned the importance of word location as information. For me, the location of a word is the most important fact to keep hidden. That piece of the puzzle, and our ability to solve it, is where the game revolves unless you make it just a game about voting.
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Thanatosian posted:I mean, you should still totally vote to eliminate him, but this isn't really a good reason why. You still think I'm going to get a lot of visitors tonight?
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Thanatosian posted:Presumably, once things are private, Byers plans to share more in exchange for other peoples' information. The only information that matters is the word. Anything else is unverifiable. I could say to you 'it's a verb starting with S' and you would never be able to tell I'm lying because there are too many words that fit those conditions to test them all. You can be led on a wild goose chase and all I have to do is go 'Haha nope, keep guessing!'
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Byers2142 posted:You still think I'm going to get a lot of visitors tonight?
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:30 |
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So Hal, I'll call you, you call Mouse?
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:34 |
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Byers2142 posted:For me, the location of a word is the most important fact to keep hidden. Tell me more about how a 1 in 12 possibility is more valuable than a 1 in a gazillion possibility
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:37 |
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I sort of see where he's coming from, mostly because the word is necessarily revealed when someone is voted out, while the position is only revealed half the time someone is voted out. I still think the word is more valuable, as position is far easier to guess than the word.
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# ? Nov 5, 2014 00:41 |
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Hal Incandenza posted:Merk's word is GERMANY I guessed germany earlier... It's not Germany.
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Nevermore214 posted:I guessed germany earlier... It's not Germany. How do you know???
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